Film-Induced Tourism

While focusing primarily on film tourism sites in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, Beeton (tourism, La Trobe U., Australia) more broadly treats how popular visual media attract tourists to particular places. Via case studies of destination marketing, she examines the selection process as part of the social construction of reality, promotion techniques, desired effects, and unintended consequences. E.g., while The Man From Snowy River movies reflected local values, lack of concern about commun…