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"Have Magic, Will Travel": Tourism and Harry Potter’s United (Magical) Kingdom

"Have Magic, Will Travel": Tourism and Harry Potter’s United (Magical) Kingdom 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. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

"Have Magic, Will Travel": Tourism and Harry Potter’s United (Magical) Kingdom

Tourist Studies: An International Journal , Volume 12 (1): 18 – Apr 1, 2012

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2012
ISSN
1468-7976
eISSN
1741-3206
DOI
10.1177/1468797612438438
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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.

Journal

Tourist Studies: An International JournalSAGE

Published: Apr 1, 2012

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