As a Sundanese Cultural Puseur (center), Sumedang Regency can arguably increase Local Own-Source Revenues (PAD – Pendapatan Asli Daerah) for the Sumedang Municipal Government. Hence, this artistic ...study aims to offer a positive identity for Sumedang Regency through film tourism. Specifically, this research employs a practical method to produce a film tourism creation titled “Historical Land of Pasundan.” The results indicate that the visual look of the Sumedang film tourism is quite complex and dynamic, demonstrating the regency’s superior potential, culinary offerings, and indigenous Sundanese culture. Sumedang is specifically labeled as the Sundanese Culture Puseur partly due to its historical significance and to attract a greater number of domestic and international tourists. This film tourism captures many images containing wide shots, close-ups, and camera movements and hence appears to be very dynamic as a part of the tourism and creative industry’s efforts to recover from the Covid-19 effects.
This study aimed to bring self-congruity theory into film tourism and examine how film tourists' self-congruity with three film elements (celebrities, film plot, and destination) affects their film ...tourism experience, satisfaction, and word-of-mouth. The survey results from 334 Chinese film tourists in Macao indicated that celebrity-tourist congruence, film-tourist congruence, and destination-tourist congruence have different levels of impact on the three dimensions of the film tourism experience, which further influence tourists' satisfaction and word-of-mouth intention. This study revealed the influence mechanism of film elements on the film tourism experience. It provides implications for destination marketers to promote film tourism.
Esta investigación examina las estrategias empleadas en la promoción del turismo cinematográfico a través de un análisis de la representación mediática proyectada en la prensa. Se realiza un análisis ...cuantitativo y cualitativo de noticias aparecidas en medios nacionales y en lengua española. El período de análisis comprende desde el 1 de enero de 2015 hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2016. La búsqueda de contenidos se realiza para todos los medios españoles mediante la base de datos Factiva®. El análisis textual de los contenidos publicados se realiza mediante el software T-LAB. Los resultados revelan que, en los años 2015 y 2016, como consecuencia del rodaje de la serie “Juego de Tronos”, se produjo un incremento de la notoriedad de la marca-destino en diferentes regiones del territorio nacional. El análisis del período 2015-2016 con 419 registros revela estrategias diseñadas especialmente desde el sector público, que actúan como estrategias tractoras para el turismo cinematográfico en la agenda de medios.
In 2013, the Walloon-Brussels Federation and RTBF created a series fund that aims to make French-speaking Belgium emerge as a land of series creation likely to appeal to an international audience. ...Wallonia, for a long time on the bangs of the geography of series, has become part of it and, since ‘La Trêve’ in 2016, has hosted multiple film shoots of works that could, beyond their economic and spatial effects, propose other forms of writing of the Walloon space and move the lines of representations associated with this territory often referred as 'in crisis'.
Film tourism has gained significant notoriety in recent years, emerging as a prominent phenomenon to promote destinations, attract visitors, and stimulate economic and social development. Despite the ...popularity of Portugal as a filming destination, the extent to which film tourism in Portugal is planned for and managed is currently unknown. Thus, this research examines the current provision and implementation of strategies to plan for and manage film tourism at a national and regional level in Portugal through a quantitative content analysis approach to existing tourism planning and management plans and strategies in Portugal. Findings revealed an overwhelming lack of planning provision for film tourism at national and regional levels. Although some regions appear to promote film tourism, no transparent efforts are being made to plan for or manage its development or impacts sustainably. As such, there is a need for a more strategic and sustainable approach to planning for and managing film tourism at regional and local levels. This could ensure that destinations harness, in the long-term, the multifaceted benefits that can be derived from film tourism while also ensuring that the negative implications of film tourism activities are minimised or mitigated to preserve the sustainability and competitiveness of the film tourism industry.
Film tourism has emerged as a major growth sector for research in tourism and it is widely recognised as a driver of tourism development for many destinations. To date, there has been a relatively ...substantial literature on the subject, little of which has sought to synthesise and engage with the wider social science paradigm of culture, film and media research. The aim of this Progress Review is to critically evaluate film tourism as a subject of cross-disciplinary academic study, highlighting the major research themes, issues and contributing conceptual frameworks, critiquing existing and developing perspectives and addressing critical gaps in knowledge. This review is particularly timely as the literature on film tourism has not been synthesised from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Accordingly, this paper seeks to provide a road map of the exponential growth in social science literature associated with the cognate areas that study, or contribute to, film tourism.
► Film tourism has emerged as a major growth sector for research in tourism. ► Much existing research is case study driven. ► Film tourism is critically evaluated as a cross-disciplinary subject. ► This paper is a synthesis of major research themes, issues and concepts. ► Critical gaps in knowledge and future research areas are discussed.
Film tourism is one of the fastest developing sub‐segments of creative tourism in the 21st century. Many studies investigated tourists' motivation and behavior towards film tourism in the context of ...psychological and emotional motives and their involvement and experience. However, we still know very little about the structure of visitors of film sites. Utilizing primary data collected in Slovakia and adopting the econometric approach, the aim of this empirical study is to estimate the relationship between preferred trip parameters and the decision to include a visit to a film location in the travel plan. The results suggest that visits to film sites occur to a significant extent by chance, film tourism is additional, mainly to other segments of tourism, characterized as adventurous and explorative experiences. Visits to film locations occur mainly as trips by younger age groups and longer stays, mostly as self‐organized trips, regardless of budget, frequency of travel, or gender.
Film tourism reflects the complex interaction of people, media, and space. This paper focuses on an attraction related to the film Avatar in Zhangjiajie, China. Through Roland Barthes’ semiology, it ...analyzes the construction process of the signification between the destination and Avatar, and applies the interpretation to the behavioral characteristics of tourists. It finds that: 1) The specific behavioral patterns and practices of tourists are Passing, Appreciation, Record and Reminiscence according to different degrees of involvement with sight and marker; 2) The symbolic space comprises a universal construction by locals referencing the film and diverse constructions by tourists influenced by social conventions; 3) Under media influence, attractions may result in self-obliteration. By enriching the explanatory capacity of a series of classic semiotic concepts related to tourism in the current context, this paper suggests destinations should aim to maintain social awareness while creating a symbolic space that balances commercial and cultural interests.
Based on the self-congruity theory, this study aims to investigate the effects of the four dimensions of destination personality (excitement, sincerity, competence, and androgyny) on symbolic ...congruity and functional congruity and further examine the effects of symbolic congruity and functional congruity on destination loyalty in the context of film tourism. A survey of 334 Mainland Chinese film tourists was conducted to collect data in Macao. The findings indicate that the four dimensions of destination personality have a significant impact on symbolic congruity and functional congruity, among which competence has the greatest influence on symbolic congruity, and sincerity has the strongest impact on functional congruity. Moreover, symbolic congruity has a higher impact on film tourists' destination loyalty than functional congruity. This study contributes to film tourism research by showing how destination personality influences destination loyalty through self-congruity. Suggestions are provided to film tourism destination marketers for film tourism development.
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