The idea that we live in an experience economy has influenced not only many of the actors in the market but also Academia. The perspectives produced by organizing concepts like the experience market, industry or economy have been rewarding in many ways for research on leisure, tourism, heritage and urban planning. They have directed our attention to new aspects or dimensions and become powerful tools for actors, institutions, communities and regions to reorganize their market profiles. As a heritage is packaged as an event, a hotel as a narrative or a landscape as a sensorama, culture and economy are linked in new ways. On a more general level this interest has also led to research that focuses on the ways in which experiences are produced, narrated and mediated.
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