Travel, Tourism and the Moving Image

This book explores the relationship between tourism and the moving image, from the early era of silent moving pictures through to cinema as mass entertainment. It examines how our active and emotional engagement with moving images provides meaning and connection to a place and can affect our decision-making when we travel.

Sue Beeton is a travel and tourism researcher and writer and Foundation Chair of the College of Eminent Professors at William Angliss Institute in Australia. For over a quarter of a century, she has conducted tourism-based research into community development, film-induced tourism and pop culture and nature-based tourism. As well as producing numerous academic papers, book chapters and reports, Prof Beeton has published a range of research-based books, including Ecotourism: a practical guide for rural communities, Community Development Through Tourism and Tourism and the Moving Image, as well as two editions of the acclaimed monograph, Film-Induced Tourism.

Sue Beeton has worked in the tourism field for 25 years; she is President of the TTRA APac chapter, Honorary Associate Professor of Tourism at La Trobe University, Australia and Visiting Professor at University of Macerata, Italy. She has published widely on the relationship between tourism and film, including Film-Induced Tourism (2005).

Images are central to how the tourist gaze is organized, systemized and performed. Travel, Tourism and the Moving Image is a ‘moving’ book about moving images, packed with interesting ideas and fascinating cases. This succinct book is essential reading for scholars and students interested in the cultural tourism geographies of gazing and images.

Pauline Sheldon, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii, USA:

This is a rigorous, informative and charming book about the nexus of the moving image and tourism. The author draws the reader in with her personal stories, perspectives and passion, while also providing a rich historical perspective and clear conceptual frameworks. It breaks new ground and provides much needed knowledge in this area of tourism.