Tourism fictions, simulacra and virtualities

Tourism fictions, simulacra and virtualities : write, stage and play the tourist game / Nelson Graburn, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Jean-François Staszak --White lies : reclaiming Rio de Janeiro's denied slave past in the touristic redevelopment of the Old Port / Anne-Marie Broudehoux -- Pałacy-in-progress : re-imagining East-Prussian country estates in post-socialist tourism landscapes of northeast Poland / Hannah Wadle -- Tourist bubbles in the Alps : sliding from the sublime into picturesque worlds / Susanne Stacher -- Iconic architecture or theme park? : Seville's cinematographic reinvention for tourism purposes (1914-1930) / Maria C. Puche-Ruiz and Alfonso Fernández-Tabales -- (Re)presenting paradise : the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas / Cynthia L. Van Gilder and Dana R. Herrera -- Tourism, simulacra and architectural reconstruction : selling an idealized past/ Agustín Cocola-Gant -- From the Lascaux cave to Lascaux IV, repetition and transformation of a simulacrum / Nicolas Leresche -- An Oriental town patterned upon movies concepts : China City, a tourist simulacrum in Los Angeles (1938-1948) / Jean-François Staszack -- The city of light in the city of signs : virtuality and tourism at Paris, Las Vegas / Stephanie Malia Hom -- To be a S.T.A.L.K.E.R : on architecture, computer games and tourist experience in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone / Magdalena Banaszkiewicz and Anna Duda -- Virtualities in the new tourism landscape : the case of the Anne Frank House virtual reality tours and of the visualizations of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War Context / Rudi Hartmann -- Iconic architecture in tourism : (how) does it work? / A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul and Keri-Anne Wikitera.

List of figures. List of contributors.1 Tourism fictions, simulacra and virtualities: write, stage and play the tourist game. Part 1: Fictions 2 White lies: reclaiming Rio de Janeiro's denied slave past in the touristic redevelopment of the old port. 3 Pałacy-in-progress: re-imagining East Prussian country estates in post-socialist tourism landscapes of Northeast Poland. 4 Tourist bubbles in the Alps: sliding from the sublime into picturesque worlds. 5 Iconic architecture or theme park? Seville's cinematographic reinvention for tourism purposes (1914-1930). Part 2: Simulacra 6 (Re)Presenting paradise: the Hawaiian imaginary in Las Vegas. 7 Tourism, simulacra and architectural reconstruction: selling an idealised past. 8 From the Lascaux cave to Lascaux IV: repetition and transformation of a simulacrum. 9 An oriental town patterned upon movies concepts: China City, a tourist simulacrum in Los Angeles (1938-1948). Part 3: Virtualities 10 The city of light in the city of signs: virtuality and tourism at Paris, Las Vegas. 11 To be a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. On architecture, computer games and tourist experience in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. 12 Virtualities in the new tourism landscape: the case of the Anne Frank House virtual tour and of the visualizations of the Berlin Wall in the Cold War context. 13 Iconic architecture in tourism: (how) does it work?Index