Lone Pine is a small town in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California. It has been the location for over 300 films. In this paper I use Lone Pine as a case study to examine three aspects of the relationship between film and destination image which have previously been scarcely considered in the literature. The first aspect is the role of Western films in shaping tourists' images and expectations of the western USA. Second, in multiple-film locations, such as Lone Pine, the development of an image is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Third, reacting to what has been projected in films, Lone Pine has reshaped itself as a Western-style town with a Western heritage
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Lone Pine is a small town in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California. It has been the location for ...
© 2011 Dr. Gemma BlackwoodThis thesis presents a study of film tourism through considering the emerg...
Films may represent a place, but be made at another. In the early years of film-making, quite elabor...
Tourism originally was perceived as visitors travelling, whether within their own country or interna...
The primary focus of this article is to provide a theoretical insight into the relationship between ...
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This Independent Study examines how the mythic “Wild West” has been portrayed in American culture th...
Since the birth of Hollywood in 1912, film studios have provided interested film audiences with stud...
Place Branding and Heritage Tourism in The American West For over 150 years, the American West con...
Lone Pine is a small town in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California. It has been the location for ...
© 2011 Dr. Gemma BlackwoodThis thesis presents a study of film tourism through considering the emerg...
Films may represent a place, but be made at another. In the early years of film-making, quite elabor...
Tourism originally was perceived as visitors travelling, whether within their own country or interna...
The primary focus of this article is to provide a theoretical insight into the relationship between ...
This thesis examines the development and role of place promotion agencies which target film-makers. ...
This paper examines how historic films may create attractive destination images for rural areas. It ...
Film tourism is a recent socio-cultural phenomenon: spontaneous and growing, it has captured the att...
Tourists today are more experienced and looking for new destinations and new experience. Destination...
The link between films and destination promotion has been well established. Less well examined is th...
Film-induced tourism is increasingly popular in the United States and globally. Scholars have tended...
This study examines sites of Old West tourism—specifically the three California theme parks of Knott...
This Independent Study examines how the mythic “Wild West” has been portrayed in American culture th...
Since the birth of Hollywood in 1912, film studios have provided interested film audiences with stud...
Place Branding and Heritage Tourism in The American West For over 150 years, the American West con...