Maria Månsson

• Visa profil på Svenska
• Dissertations and Publications

I am a PhD Candidate in Service Studies at the Department of Service Management, Lund University. In addition, I have a Master’s degree in Social Science with a major in Business Administration, concentrating in Tourism Management. Previously, I worked in the tourism and the hospitality industry as both a tour guide and as a tourism officer.

Research interest

My research interests focus on the interrelationship between tourism, space and popular cultural media products such as film and literature.

My research explores the convergence of tourism and the consumption of popular cultural media products. I am primarily interested in tourists’ consumption and production of media products and its affect on tourists’ actions and tourism choices.

Research project: Mediatized tourism – the convergence of tourism and media consumption

I explore the convergence of tourism and the consumption of media products like film and literature and the resulting affect on space and tourists’ actions and choices. More specifically, I investigate how media products converge with tourists’ input and responses, alone or in collaboration, with a resulting feedback loop in relation to the use and production of media products.