above, authenticity has been recognised as a motivator for tourists. Applied to film tourism,
authenticity raises unusual questions as film tourism allows tourists to live out their fantasies
of their favourite movie or actors in fictional or mythical places (Macionis, 2004) and film
locations are examples of hyper-real places and simulacra in which reality and artifice are
mixed and “cognitive and imaginative dimensions overlap” (Couldry, 1998, p. 97)