TY - JOUR
T1 - Reality television portrayals of Kavos, Greece
T2 - tourists behaving badly
AU - Williams-Burnett, Nicola
AU - Skinner, Heather
AU - Fallon, Julia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2016/12/20
Y1 - 2016/12/20
N2 - Reality television programmes are an increasingly ubiquitous element of popular culture. While other forms of popular culture’s impact on tourists’ perceptions of destination image have been considered in the extant literature, the impact of reality television is under-researched. This article provides a qualitative thematic analysis of televisual media portrayals of the tourist destination of Kavos, on the Greek island of Corfu, whose economy is almost solely reliant upon an increasingly short high-summer season. Reality television portrayals of tourist behavior have generated negative publicity about the resort’s image that may negatively affect potential tourists’ perceptions of Kavos as a destination.
AB - Reality television programmes are an increasingly ubiquitous element of popular culture. While other forms of popular culture’s impact on tourists’ perceptions of destination image have been considered in the extant literature, the impact of reality television is under-researched. This article provides a qualitative thematic analysis of televisual media portrayals of the tourist destination of Kavos, on the Greek island of Corfu, whose economy is almost solely reliant upon an increasingly short high-summer season. Reality television portrayals of tourist behavior have generated negative publicity about the resort’s image that may negatively affect potential tourists’ perceptions of Kavos as a destination.
KW - British tourists
KW - Destination image
KW - Kavos
KW - reality television
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85006848806&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/10548408.2016.1261757
DO - 10.1080/10548408.2016.1261757
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85006848806
SN - 1054-8408
VL - 35
SP - 336
EP - 347
JO - Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing
JF - Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing
IS - 3
ER -