THE ROLE OF CINEMA ON THE TOURIST DESTINATION IMAGE FORMATION PROCESS

Authors

  • Arthur Filipe Barbosa de Araújo ESGHT/Universidade do Algarve
  • Sandra Maria Correia Loureiro

Keywords:

Cinema, tourist destination image, destination marketing

Abstract

Tourism literature widely acknowledges that images of tourist destinations are a product of all the experiences of an individual, being influenced by a series of information sources. The movies figure amongst this sources, and as an autonomous information agent, which in theory are not associated with the tourist market interests, they transmit information that is perceived as more reliable than conventional publicity. Thus, cinema acts directly on the organic image, creating and perpetuating associations about the places it depicts on the collective imagery. The present article aims to provide a bibliographical state of the art about the influence of films on the tourist destinations’ image, contextualizing the cinema on it’s formation process, as well as the cognitive and phsycological processes involved.

Author Biography

  • Arthur Filipe Barbosa de Araújo, ESGHT/Universidade do Algarve
    PhD, Adjunct Professor, ESGHT/University of Algarve Web Manager of the Journal Encontros Científicos - Tourism & Management Studies  Director of the undergraduate Course in Hotelmanagement, ESGHT/University of Algarve

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Published

09.04.2013

How to Cite

THE ROLE OF CINEMA ON THE TOURIST DESTINATION IMAGE FORMATION PROCESS. (2013). Tourism & Management Studies, 40-53. https://www.tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/392