Salvador Anton Clavé is Professor of Regional Geographical Analysis at the University Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia, Spain). He has been a senior visiting scholar at the George Washington University (USA) and currently also serves as Director of Tourism Innovation at Eurecat - The Technology Centre of Catalonia. His research concentrates, among other interests, on visitor attractions and theme parks development, performance, and impact; visitors spatial behaviour; and digital technologies and tourism. He is the author of "The Global Theme Park Industry" (2007) and other publications in the field. In 2021 he received the American Association of Geographers Roy Wolfe Award presented by the Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group.

Filippo Carlà-Uhink is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Potsdam (Germany). He specializes, among other research interests, in the reception of classical antiquity in modern popular culture and in the modern visual and performing arts. Carlà-Uhink is the author of "Representations of Classical Greece in Theme Parks" (2020) and of numerous other articles and book chapters on the reception of classical antiquity in theme parks. Together with Florian Freitag he directed the research group "'Here You Leave Today': Time and Temporality in Theme Parks," which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the period 2014-2017.

Defines the most central concepts in theme park studies

Analyzes the development, design, and operation of theme parks as well as their visitors and employees

Discusses theme parks worldwide and from the big international chains to smaller, regional, family-operated parks

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Attractions.- Chapter 3. Authenticity.- Chapter 4. Economic Strategy.- Chapter 5. History of Theme Parks.- Chapter 6. Immersion.- Chapter 7. Inclusion and Exclusion.- Chapter 8. Industry.- Chapter 9. Labor.- Chapter 10. Media.- Chapter 11. Metatexts and Reception.- Chapter 12. Methods.- Chapter 13. Planning and Layout.- Chapter 14. Space.- Chapter 15. Theming.- Chapter 16. Time.- Chapter 17. Visitors and Customers.- Chapter 18. Worldviews.- Bibliography.- Index.