EXPERIENCESCAPES: TOURISM, CULTURE AND ECONOMY -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Experiencescapes: Blurring Borders and Testing Connections -- Experiencescapes -- The Cultural Turn -- Identity Production and the Consequences of Scaping -- Marketers, Alchemists, and Warriors -- A Post-sightseeing Society -- The Slower Pulse -- Easy Money - or a Risky Economy? -- 2 Looking With New Eyes at The Old Factory On the Rise of Industrial Cool -- Industries Beyond 2000 -- Early Industrial Experiencescapes -- The Rise of Industrial Cool -- Staged Factories: The Transparent Factory, Dresden, Germany -- Recycled Factories: The BALTIC Art Factory, Gateshead, UK -- What's Cool and Sublime? The Undertow of Industrial Harshness -- 3 A Theory of Tourism Experiences: The Management of Attention -- The Attention Structure Framework in Context -- Attention and Experience -- Attractions and Distractions -- Lessons for the Tourism Industry -- Conclusions -- 4 Regional Experiencescapes as Geo-economic Ammunition -- European Cross-border Regions, Place Marketing and Geo-economic Warfare -- Geo-economic Warfare, Spatial Play and Regional Experiencescapes -- The Øresund Region -- "Scale Wars" -- "Sim Wars" -- The Exclusive Experiencescape's Excluding Tendency -- Conclusion -- 5 Mobile Dreams -- An Experiencescape in the Making -- A New Malmö -- De Signs -- A War Between Symbols -- Hotales -- Transit and Mobility -- Conclusion -- 6 Nostalgiascapes: The Renaissance of Danish Countryside Inns -- Outlining the Kro Nostalgiascape -- Patriotic Nostalgia: The Kro as a Representation of Danishness -- Popular Culture: The Kro as a Representation of Lower Class Taste -- Ways of Belonging: The Kro as a Representation of Home -- Conclusions -- 7 Management Strategies and the Need for Fun -- Making Reservations for Experiences.

Techniques of Experiencescaping -- Context over Liminality -- Experience as Gift Exchange -- WorkPlay -- 8 Promoting the Known and the Unknown of Cities and City Regions -- Empirical Data and Analysis -- Cities as Known and Unknown Elements -- Exploring the Known and Unknown in the Urban Experiencescape -- Cities as Spatial Entities -- The Experience Economy as a Cognitive Shift -- Bringing Experiences into Urban Competition -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.