This book examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices. It re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling. Drawing on a range of perspectives and cases, it explores how the feeling of authenticity within places is produced.

Chapter 1 Performative Authenticity in Tourism and Spatial Experience : Rethinking the Relations Between Travel, Place and Emotion - Britta Timm Knudsen and Anne Marit WaadeSection One: Staging and Practicing Authenticity Chapter 2 Staging Places as Brands: Visiting Illusions, Images and Imaginations - Anne-Britt Gran Chapter 3 The City In-Between: Communication Geographies, Tourism and the Urban Unconscious - Andre Jansson Chapter 4 'The Summer we all went to Keuruu': Intensity and the Topographication of Identity- Niels Kayser NielsenSection Two: Branding and Materializing Authenticity Chapter 5 Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore - Can-Seng Ooi and Birgit Stober Chapter 6 On the Management of Authenticity: Culture in the Place Branding of Oresund - Soren Buhl Hornskov Chapter 7 A Ferris Wheel on a Parking Lot: Heritage, Tourism, and the Authenticity of Place in Solvang, California - Hanne Pico LarsenSection Three: Re-writing and Re-mediating Authenticity Chapter 8 Travel and Testimony: The Rhetoric of Authenticity - Dan Ringgaard Chapter 9 Cool Kullaberg: The History of a Mediated Tourist Site - Karen Klitgaard Povlsen Chapter 10 Crime Scenes as Augmented Reality: Models for Enhancing Places Emotionally by Means of Narratives, Fictions and Virtual Reality - Kjetil Sandvik Chapter 11 Murder Walks in Ystad - Carina Sjoholm Chapter 12 Negotiating Authenticity at Rosslyn Chapel - Maria ManssonSection Four: Re-empowering Authenticity Chapter 13 Making Pictures Talk: The Re-opening of a 'Dead City' through Vernacular Photography as a Catalyst for the Performance of Memories - Mette Sandbye Chapter 14 Globe 1: A Place of Integration or an 'Ethnic Oasis'? - Sine Agergaard Chapter 15 Online Tourism: Just like Being There? - Jakob Linaa JensenSection Five: Embodying Spatial Mythologies Chapter 16 Journeys, Religion and Authenticity Re-visited - Torunn Selberg Chapter 17 Walking Towards Oneself: The Authentification of Place and Self - Jesper Ostergaard and Dorthe Refslund Christensen Chapter 18 Thrillscapes: Wilderness Mediated as Playground - Szilvia Gyimothy