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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: Popular culture and tourism: conceptual advances and future directions
Description: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2024.2412552AbstractThis review of the intersection between popular culture and tourism surveys progress in the field and suggests directions for future research. Popular culture as fuel for niche tourism, interpreted in relation to nostalgia, authenticity, and identity, has been supplemented by research on embodiment and performativity, and the influence of social media. Popular culture remains a strong rationale for travel and is thoroughly imbricated in tourism’s corporatised and platformised industry superstructure. Yet, as subcultures and social media proliferate globally and are refracted by cultural diversity an...