An Association for Research in Popular Fictions study day

Saturday May 8, 2004
Liverpool John Moores University

Participants are invited to discuss:

• airport novels
• in-flight movies
• armchair travelling
• high-concept destinations
• brochures and book covers
• sex, sexuality and settings
• train station booksellers
• series and cities
• screening and selling scenery
• genres of tourist and tourist fiction
• couples and the romance of travel
• fictional tourism and anti-tourism
• the book, the film of the book and the tour of the film of the book
• marketing fiction through difference
• consuming places
• resorts and holiday reading
• (popular) cultural tourism

Deadline for abstracts: February 16, 2004

For more information, contact Nicole Matthews