Ziakas, V, Tzanelli, R orcid.org/0000-0002-5765-9856 and Lundberg, C (2022) Interscopic fan travelscape: Hybridizing tourism through sport and art. Tourist Studies. ISSN 1468-7976
Abstract
Contrary to the common compartmentalization of popular culture and events to specialized forms of fandom-induced tourism (e.g. film-, music-, sport-tourism), event-tourism spaces may also derive from blending different genres that enable symbiotic effects, for example, between sport and art. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of how event-tourism is interwoven and merged with sporting and cinematic popular culture, thereby creating a compound milieu for sport traveling aficionados that we name an “Interscopic Fan Travelscape” (IFT). To ground our analysis, we use the example of a participatory sport event that blends organically sporting and cinematic facets of popular culture. This is a free-diving event, hosted in the Greek island of Amorgos, and commemorating the 1988 “Big Blue” film, which was primarily shot in Amorgos. Our conceptual framework provides a comprehensive understanding of composite popular culture settings and devoted fan-travel by integrating perspectives of neo-tribalism, serious leisure, fan pilgrimage and event-tourism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | event-tourism, fandom, neo-tribalism, serious leisure, secular pilgrimage, eco-esthetics, popular culture, film-tourism, sport-tourism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2022 15:24 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2022 15:24 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14687976221092169 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188389 |