Undergraduate Tourism Essay: Film-Induced Tourism and Ethics

This essay addresses two key questions related to contemporary issues in tourism. The first question defines film-induced tourism, traces its development, and analyzes its social structuring through Foucault's notion of discourse and Urry's concept of the tourist gaze, supported by relevant examples. The second question delves into ethical dilemmas within cultural tourism, examining how these are recognized and addressed by the tourism industry, with a critical evaluation of industry practices using examples. The essay highlights the importance of ethical considerations, cultural preservation, and the influence of theoretical frameworks in shaping the tourism experience and its impact on both tourists and local communities. The analysis includes the application of theories and real-world examples to provide a comprehensive understanding of the subject matter.

Contemporary Issues

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Question 1:.......................................................................................................................................3
Explaining what is 'film-induced tourism'. Describing development of this type of tourism
over past decade. Discussing ways in which 'this type of tourism' is socially structured by
tourism industry by using Foucault notion of discourse, Urry's concept of tourist gaze-...........3
Question 2:.......................................................................................................................................4
Discussing ethical dilemmas in cultural tourism and analysed how these are being recognized
and addressed in tourism industry. Critical evaluation of industry practice which are identified
by using industry example-.........................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

MAIN BODY
Question 1:
Explaining what is 'film-induced tourism'. Describing development of this type of tourism
over past decade. Discussing ways in which 'this type of tourism' is socially structured
by tourism industry by using Foucault notion of discourse, Urry's concept of tourist
gaze-
The understanding of 'film induced tourism'-
The film induced tourism are also known as Film Tourism. It is the business of attracting
visitor by portrayal of places or the place's story lines in the movie, television and video. Film
induced tourism is kind of businesses which profit by attracting visitors that are inspired by
beautiful sceneries at several locations which are exposed in drama or stories linked to these
locations by merchandising of film sets as the tour program.
Clear description of the development of the niche tourism selected with appropriate
sources for supporting-
Film-induced tourism which loosely falls under umbrella of cultural tourism. The cultural
tourists are older, educated professional who are looking to learn more about the history and
culture of destination (Beeton, 2016). However, film attracts wide range of cultural tourist. Niche
market films can have cult following, fan of film could be anyone from family to single. Thus, in
result it is more complicated. Location can vary from landscape to telephone box of the whole
country. Various activities which came under film tourism are marketing initiative and diverse
and can vary as per the theme of films along with location for including experience for attracting
tourist closer to movie.
The understanding of theoretical perspectives-
The Foucault's notion of Discourse in which discourse are defined as the way in which
knowledge is constituted together along with social practices, various forms of the power
relations and subjectivity which induces relation and knowledge among them. Thus, tourist are
rendered with appropriate knowledge about the destinations as they are motivated to visit the
location and are attracted in positive way.
Urry's concept of tourist gaze in which the tourist gaze is being explained as expectation
set which is used by tourists place or the local population when their participation is accessed in
heritage tourism, so that they can have a significant experience for that location. The various

resort packages are helpful for promoting the several heritage tourism in the nation for particular
place so that more and more tourists are attracted.
Critical discussion of connection of theories with chosen tourist practices-
Museum of London is the tourist destination which is linked with the Foucault theory and
Urry's concept as it is the historical place which indicates the major historical tourism to it. More
and more tourists are attracted towards the location by getting full knowledge about it (Park and
et.al., 2018). Further they are motivated to visit the location and experience the amazing tourism
authenticity as there is no charge to visit the museum by government.
Question 2:
Discussing ethical dilemmas in cultural tourism and analysed how these are being
recognized and addressed in tourism industry. Critical evaluation of industry
practice which are identified by using industry example-
Demonstrating an understanding of ethical debates in cultural tourism-
Cultural tourism is subset of the tourism concerned with the country or its culture
region's, specifically peoples lifestyle in these geographical region, people's history, their
architecture, art, religions and other components which is helpful for shaping their life ways. The
ethical debates in cultural tourism is to safeguard the culture of the nation while visited by the
tourists. Following the culture and tradition of the visited country. If anyone is visiting the
United Kingdom then they must follow the culture and tradition of the UK whether they are from
any nation.
Demonstrating understanding of challenges in promoting ethical tourism-
Ethical tourism means thinking about consequence of one's action towards the
environment, local economy and local people. In world there are many locations which are
benefited by tourism and it is the source of income for some communities as well (Bąkiewicz,
and et.al., 2017). There are many challenges which are faced while promoting ethical tourism as
the consumer expectation can be meet up by them if they couldn't interact in the regional level of
the place they visit they had to follow company's culture. Local community also get embraced if
the more and more ethical tourism is promoted.

Identification of business practices that tourism company can adopt for addressing ethical
dilemmas in cultural tourism product and service offerings-
It is very important for educating the tourist about the culture and local analyse so that
they can learn and explore the culture of visited place and follows the culture and tradition of
country. The local community and foreign tourists are attracted to interact with each other so that
they can comfortable at the visited country and could have amazing experience of travel (Curtis,
2017). There must be investment by the local community so that the local culture can be further
promoted and marketed among the tourists.
Evaluation of Industry practices identified-
These all practices must be followed by the nation to attract the tourist. For example if
there is interaction among local people and tourist then they can be familiar with the local site
and could have an amazing experience with their travel and thus further they will be motivated
and encouraged to visit the place again and convince others also to have an amazing experience
of that particular location.
Discussion and identification of relevant theoretical frameworks-
The tourism culture framework reflects the effectiveness of culture in the tourism. It
states that how tourism has enhanced the countries culture, morals and values and thus more
emphasis on cultural tourism has enhanced the number of tourist to the nations. The countries
which follows this framework could enhance their countries tourism widely and manged to
render high quality service to the tourist who visit their country (Bakiewicz and et.al., 2016). In
this framework culture is classified into four parts according to culture interest of individual in
the nations.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bakiewicz, J and et.al., 2016. Using interpretation to manage film-induced tourism at heritage
visitor attractions.
Bąkiewicz, J and et.al., 2017. Management challenges at film-induced tourism heritage
attractions. Tourism Planning & Development. 14(4). pp.548-566.
Beeton, S., 2016. Film-induced tourism. Channel View Publications.
Curtis, S., 2017. Film-induced tourism (aspects of tourism).
Park, H and et.al., 2018, October. The Effect of Applying Film-induced Tourism to Virtual
Reality Tours of Cultural Heritage Sites. In 2018 3rd Digital Heritage International
Congress (DigitalHERITAGE) held jointly with 2018 24th International Conference on
Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2018) (pp. 1-4). IEEE.