Locative Tourism Applications

A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City

Erin E. Lynch

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Anthropology; Travel & holiday

Series: Sensory Studies

Travel through time. Walk the streets as they were. See through floors. Hunt for ghosts (with drink in hand). Hear the walls speak. These are just a few of the ways that locative tourism applications seek to augment the urban experience. This book explores the universe of locative tourism applications. It uses multi-sited sensory ethnography with diverse apps in 12 cities around the world to interrogate how these applications layer (often branded) maps of meaning over the urban environment, and exposes what their use – at the embodied intersection of physical and digital space – can tell us about the production of cityscapes for touristic consumption. Locative Tourism Applications takes a journey in three parts to evaluate how these “extensions of the senses” mediate users’ experience of urban locales. The first offers the reader some theoretical and methodological orientation, the second takes them on a whirlwind tour of locative apps, and the third settles in for an extended exploration of two destinations: Montreal and Christchurch. With broad cross-disciplinary appeal, this volume will be of interest to scholars from tourism studies, cultural geography, urban studies, new media studies, and sensory studies and will be particularly valuable for sensory ethnographers examining mobile and location-aware media.

By: Erin E. Lynch
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367695828
ISBN 10: 0367695820
Series: Sensory Studies
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Part 1: Departure Points and Orientations 1 Departure Points 2 Orientations Part 2: A Tour of Locative Tourism Apps: Between Gaze and Performance 3 Gaze 4 Performance Part 3: A Tale of Two Cities (Case Studies) 5 A City of Gaps - Mediating the Ruin in Christchurch 6 A City of Screens - Augmenting the Branded Cityscape in Montreal Conclusion Appendix A: 12-City Tour of Applications Bibliography

Erin E. Lynch is Senior Fellow in the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University, Canada.

Reviews for Locative Tourism Applications: A Sensory Ethnography of the Augmented City

“This timely text considers how tourists connect to urban environments through sensory applications. [...] Lynch does a marvelous job allowing readers to feel they are part of the stories she captures. Libraries with collections focusing on tourism studies, cultural geography, urban studies, new media studies, and sensory studies should have a copy of this text.” - K. M. Woosnam, University of Georgia in CHOICE