Biography
Stijn Reijnders is Full Professor of "Cultural Heritage, in Particular in Relation to Tourism and Popular Culture" at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
His research focuses on the intersection of media, culture and tourism. Currently he leads two large, international research projects: “Worlds of Imagination”, funded by the European Research Council, and “Locating Imagination” funded by the Dutch Science Foundation.
He has published many research papers and two monographs entitled "Holland op de Helling" (2006) – recipient of the national NeSCoR dissertation award – and "Places of the Imagination. Media, Tourism, Culture" (2011). In addition, Reijnders has co-edited "The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures" (2014), "Film Tourism in Asia: Evolution, Transformation and Trajectory" (2017) and "Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism and Belonging" (exp. 2020/21).
Furthermore, he serves as Vice-Dean of Research of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC), member of the Supervisory Board of Museum Rotterdam, and Chair of the Popular Communication Division of the Netherlands Flanders Communication Association (NEFCA). Recently, he co-founded the new Masters programme "Tourism, Culture & Society".
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- reijnders@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Sangkyun Sean Kim, Anton Klarin, Stijn Reijnders, Qijie Xiao & Nicky van Es (2025) - Chronicles of Film Tourism: An Integrative Review and Future Research Directions - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research - doi: 10.1177/10963480241305762 - [link]
- Apoorva Nanjangud & Stijn Reijnders (2024) - Bollywood tourism among the Hindustanis in the Netherlands:: a transnational perspective - [link]
- Stijn Reijnders, Emiel Martens, Apoorva Nanjangud, Deborah Castro Marino, Rosa Schiavone & Débora Póvoa (2024) - Introduction: Worlds of Imagination - [link]
- Stijn Reijnders, Emiel Martens, Deborah Castro Marino, Débora Póvoa, Apoorva Nanjangud & Rosa Schiavone (2024) - Media, place and tourism: Worlds of Imagination - doi: 10.4324/9781003320586
- Rosa Schiavone, Stijn Reijnders & Amanda Brandellero (2022) - ‘Beneath the storyline’: analysing the role and importance of film in the preservation and development of Scottish heritage sites - International Journal of Heritage Studies, 28 (10), 1107-1120 - doi: 10.1080/13527258.2022.2131876 - [link]
- Apoorva Nanjangud & Stijn Reijnders (2022) - On the Tracks of Musical Screenscapes: Analysing the Emerging Phenomenon of Bollywood Filmi-song Tourism in Iceland - Tourist Studies, 22 (2), 175-199 - doi: 10.1177/14687976221090728 - [link]
- Stijn Reijnders, Balazs Boross & Victoria Balan (2022) - Beyond the tourist experience: Analyzing the imagination of place and travel in everyday life - Tourism, Culture and Communication, 22 (1), 31-44 - doi: 10.3727/109830421x16262461231783 - [link]
- Emily Mannheimer, Stijn Reijnders & Amanda Brandellero (2022) - Game of Thrones tourism and the (re)imagination of the new Northern Ireland - International Journal of Cultural Studies, 25 (5), 1-16 - doi: 10.1177/13678779221081148 - [link]
- Apoorva Nanjangud & Stijn Reijnders (2021) - ‘I felt more homely over there … ’: analysing tourists' experience of Indianness at Bollywood Parks Dubai - Current Issues in Tourism, 25 (15), 2443-2456 - doi: 10.1080/13683500.2021.1968804 - [link]
- Leonieke Bolderman & Stijn Reijnders (2021) - Sharing songs on Hirakata Square: On playlists and place attachment in contemporary music listening - European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24 (4), 935-951 - doi: 10.1177/1367549419847110 - [link]
- Stijn Reijnders (28 November 2024) - Interview for Editie NL (RTL4) on film tourism
- Stijn Reijnders (12 February 2024) - Interview for NPO Radio 1
- Stijn Reijnders (15 January 2024) - Interview for Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant
- Stijn Reijnders & Nicky Es (11 October 2013) - Stijn Reijndes en Nicky van Es over het onderzoeksproject 'Locating Imagination'
- Stijn Reijnders (8 June 2011) - Stijn Reijnders over mediatoerisme
- Stijn Reijnders (5 May 2010) - Stijn Reijnders over mediatoerisme
- Stijn Reijnders (2024) - Places of the imagination: film, heritage, tourism (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Stijn Reijnders (2024) - Places of the imagination: rethinking media tourism in Europe (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Stijn Reijnders (2024) - Places of the imagination - Rethinking media tourism in Europe (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Stijn Reijnders (2024) - Worlds of Imagination (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Stijn Reijnders (2023) - Landelijk Orgaan Wetenschappelijke Integriteit (External organisation) (Member)
Activity: Membership of council › Academic - SL (Stijn) Reijnders (2021) - Imaginative heritage. From fiction to tourism (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - SL (Stijn) Reijnders (2021) - Imaginative heritage: understanding a city through its crime fiction. (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - SL (Stijn) Reijnders (2021) - Media, tourism and cultural sustainability (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - SL (Stijn) Reijnders (2021) - Imaginative heritage (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Stijn Reijnders (2019) - Media Tourism: Imagination, Home, Travel (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
LOWI
- Start date approval
- October 2023
- End date approval
- October 2026
- Place
- AMSTERDAM
- Description
- Lid van LOWI
Master Thesis TCS
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CC4250
Master Thesis Class TCS
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CC4206
Media Tourism
- Year Level
- MA, MA, MA-1, Pre-master, MA
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CC4015
Cultural Heritage Studies
- Year Level
- BA-2, Other, BA-2, BA-3, BA-3, Pre-master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CC2043
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA-2
- Year Level
- MA-2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- CS5050
