This book examines the emergent relationships and connections between media practices and tourism practices, everyday experiences and encounters of place. Collectively, the authors in this book address a range of media and technologies from brochures, television, video and film to mediated virtual spaces, such as e-brochures, Internet cultures, social networks, and Google Earth. In doing so, the book highlights the continued significance of media in tourism contexts; recognising both traditional and newer technologies, and the non-linear, continuous cycle of mediated representations and experiences.

Chapter 1 Mediating the Tourist Experience: From Brochures to Virtual Encounters, Caroline Scarles, Jo-Anne Lester; Chapter 2 Media-Related Tourism Phenomena: A Review of the Key Issues, Noëlle O'Connor, Sangkyun Kim; Chapter 3 From the Landscape to the White Female Body: Representations of Postcolonial Luxury in Contemporary Tourism Visual Texts, Karen Wilkes; Chapter 4 A Necessary Glamorisation? Resident Perspectives on Promotional Literature and Images on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, Leon Hoffman, Robin Kearns; Chapter 5 The Effect of British Natural History Television Programmes: Animal Representations and Wildlife Tourism, Susanna Curtin; Chapter 6 Internet Cultures and Tourist Expectations in the Context of the Public Media Discourse, Nicolai Scherle, Ralph Lessmeister; Chapter 7 A Comparative Analysis of the Projected and Perceived Images of Gloucester, Bell Kathryn; Chapter 8 Individualising the Tourist Brochure: Reconfiguring Tourism Experiences and Transforming the Classic Image-maker, Constantia Anastasiadou, Nikos Migas; Chapter 9 The Mediatisation of Culture: Japanese Contents Tourism and Pop Culture, Sue Beeton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Philip Seaton; Chapter 10 Developing the E-Mediated Gaze, Peter Robinson; Chapter 11 Souvenir or Reconstruir? Editing Experience and Mediating Memories of Learning to Dive, Stephanie Merchant; Chapter 12 The Mediation and Fetishisation of the Travel Experience, Michael Salmond; Chapter 13 Being a Tourist or a Performer? Tourists' Negotiation with Mediated Destination Image in Popular Film, Maltika Siripis, Caroline Scarles, David Airey; Chapter 14 The Hollowed or Hallowed Ground of Orange County, California, Chris Lukinbeal, Ann Fletchall; Chapter 15 Maps, Mapping and Materiality: Navigating London, Catherine Palmer, Jo-Anne Lester; Chapter 16 Mediating Tourism: Future Directions?, Jo-Anne Lester, Caroline Scarles;