Connecting Real and Imaginary Places through Geospatial Technologies: Examples from Set-jetting and Art-oriented Tourism

摘要

Places play an important role as anchoring fictional (books, movies, songs, video games) as well as artistic universes toreality. Conversely, imaginary places affect the way people perceive real places. 'Set-jetting', which transforms film locationsinto tourist attractions, is a perfect example of the increasing demand for connecting fictional spaces with real places. Theinteraction of imaginary and real places, which has been for years an operating function' of fiction, is increasing bothqualitatively and quantitatively. This is not limited to cinema but also affects literature and art. Once located on a map, thefictional place becomes attractive for tourists and a potential source of profit. The connection between imaginary and realplaces has been transformed by recent dramatic changes in communication and information technologies, and morespecifically in the domain of geospatial technologies. These technologies offer more effective ways of georeferencing locationsin films, books and art works. Many Web sites compile information on fibn Allowing locations. Geoparsing techniques offersolutions for automatically georeferencing novels or short stories. New technologies allow visitors practicing set jetting orcultural tourism to collect extensive information about films or hooks related to these places. Geospatial technologiescontribute to the development of an intermediary territory, a space between the real world and the fantasy world.