Magical Tourism and Enchanting Geographies: Storytelling, Heritage, Fantasy, and Folklore (1) (Routledge Insights in Tourism Series)

Synopsis

This book explores the events, attractions, and places that comprise magical tourism. It showcases magical storytelling, ecologies, realities, entities, belief systems, cultural heritage, and rituals leading to spiritual, otherworldly, enchanting, mindful, interconnected, green, and dark experiences.The volume offers the reader insights into the exciting, popular new tourism trend of magical tourism and its over-arching attributes and tropes. Chapters feature a number of case studies and discussions including the history of magical travel, studies of affect, witch festivals, the rights of mythical animals, folkloric beasts, unmappable places that seem to retreat and slide sideways, multi-layered place folklore and mythology, portals, nexuses of meaning, fayres, festivals, identities, and cos-play. This volume addresses the challenges of sustainable futures, green heritages, commercialisation, representation, inclusion, accessibility, community ownership, magical events, beliefs, and practices and asks if there is a magical turn in research.The book is highly relevant to those with expertise and interest in geography, tourism, hospitality and events studies, marketing, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, and heritage and cultural studies.

Copyright:

2025

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

236 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040376935

Related ISBNs:

9781032528045, 9781003408475, 9781040376911

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

06/06/25

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Jane Lovell and Nitasha Sharma

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Jane Lovell

Edited by:

Nitasha Sharma