Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : locating imagination in popular culture: place, tourism, and belonging

Part I. Theorizing the imagination

Imaginative heritage : towards a holistic perspective on media, tourism, and governance

The open-ended ruin : imaginative authenticity as a driver of alternative tourism

No place like Birmingham? The politics of immobility, invisibility, and resentment

I just can’t get you out of my head : how music triggers the imagination

Space, lived culture, and affectivities in stirring imagination

Part II. Mediating place

Screening the west coast : developing New Nordic Noir tourism in Denmark and using the actual places as full-scale visual mood boards for the scriptwriting process

Flying down to a cosmopolitan-tropical paradise

Following Oshin and Amachan : film tourism and nation branding in the analogue and digital ages

Touring the videogame city

Locating the literary imagination : broadening the scope of literary tourism

Part III. Being there

Toy tourism : from Travel Bugs to characters with wanderlust

On (be)longing : the Der Bergdoktor phenomenon at the European cultural periphery

Live event-spaces : place and space in the mediatized experience of events

Fans and fams : experience and belonging aboard a cruise ship music festival

Part IV. Returning home : memory and belonging

Strange spaces of mediated memory : the complicating influence of Roots on heritage tourism in The Gambia, West Africa

How stories relate to places? Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence as literary tourism

Placing fandom : reflections on film tourism

The National Theatre, London, as a theatrical/architectural object of fan imagination