Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Performative Authenticity in Tourism and Spatial Experience: Rethinking the Relations Between Travel, Place and Emotion -- SECTION ONE STAGING AND PRACTICING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 2 Staging Places as Brands: Visiting Illusions, Images and Imaginations -- Chapter 3 The City In-Between: Communication Geographies, Tourism and the Urban Unconscious -- Chapter 4 'The Summer We All Went to Keuruu': Intensity and the Topographication of Identity -- SECTION TWO BRANDING AND MATERIALISING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 5 Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore -- Chapter 6 On the Management of Authenticity: Culture in the Place Branding of Øresund -- Chapter 7 A Ferris Wheel on a Parking Lot: Heritage, Tourism, and the Authenticity of Place in Solvang, California -- SECTION THREE RE-WRITING AND RE-MEDIATING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 8 Travel and Testimony: The Rhetoric of Authenticity -- Chapter 9 Cool Kullaberg: The History of a Mediated Tourist Site -- Chapter 10 Crime Scenes as Augmented Reality: Models for Enhancing Places Emotionally by Means of Narratives, Fictions and Virtual Reality -- Chapter 11 Murder Walks in Ystad -- Chapter 12 Negotiating Authenticity at Rosslyn Chapel -- SECTION FOUR RE-EMPOWERING AUTHENTICITY -- Chapter 13 Making Pictures Talk: The Re-opening of a 'Dead City' through Vernacular Photography as a Catalyst for the Performance of Memories -- Chapter 14 Globe1: A Place of Integration or an 'Ethnic Oasis'? -- Chapter 15 Online Tourism: Just like Being There? -- SECTION FIVE EMBODYING SPATIAL MYTHOLOGIES -- Chapter 16 Journeys, Religion and Authenticity Revisited -- Chapter 17 Walking Towards Oneself: The Authentification of Place and Self -- Chapter 18 Thrillscapes: Wilderness Mediated as Playground -- References -- Index.