#  Harry Potter and the Wizarding Tourist 

 





 Semester:   Winter 

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 Year offered:  2023 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://www.tourismstudies.org/news_archive/Simonetta2023.htm) 

 

 

 

 Per annum, more than 140 million tourists travel to media-themed destinations they have seen on screen, online, or have read by means of an author’s fantasy world. Themed spaces, which include film studio exhibitions, draw travelers from around the globe to view these cultural fantasies as a way of inserting oneself into a fandom community through touristic experiences. These spatial organizations boast principal themes through symbols, ideas, and embodiment tactics as expressive spaces for people to gather. Recognizing an anthropologist’s main intention is to reveal the diversity of human behavior in communal settings to discover displays of performance and feeling, the recent prosperity of cultural fan tourism is a valid method to comprehend a fandom’s sense of community within a themed space.

 Harry Potter and the Wizarding Tourist is an analysis on how the Harry Potter fandom culturally symbolizes the milieu of The Making of Harry Potter Studio Tour London using anthropological concepts of space, place, and embodiment. With equal regard, an examination on this Harry Potter themed space also considers how the Studio Tour performs as a fan-induced tourist destination, thus analyzing these cultural elements and their potential to elevate the study of tourism and fan scholarship in the field of anthropology.