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dc.contributor.authorLee, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T10:37:00Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T10:37:00Z
dc.date.created2015-03-03T20:14:50Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationLee, C. 2012. 'Have Magic, Will Travel': Tourism and Harry Potter's United (Magical) Kingdom. Tourist Studies. 12 (1): pp. 52-69.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/4151
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1468797612438438
dc.description.abstract

This article examines the expanding global tourist trade for fictional places derived from popular narratives that are recreated for the tourist’s pleasure. Through a case study of a Harry Potter tour in the United Kingdom, I explore how the design of fantasy-themed ventures encourage a re-imagining of the landscape where (f)actual and imaginary geographies exist side by side. The locations function as affective, liminal spaces where the tourist anticipates and partakes in the transformation of sights/sites. Narrative and spatial engagement are crucial in producing a sense of embodied experience and an enchanted, and enchanting, reality where the realms of possibility are expanded.

dc.publisherSage
dc.title'Have Magic, Will Travel': Tourism and Harry Potter's United (Magical) Kingdom
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume12
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage52
dcterms.source.endPage69
dcterms.source.issn1468-7976
dcterms.source.titleTourist Studies
curtin.departmentDepartment of Communication and Cultural Studies
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