The International Journal of Contents Tourism is an
open-access Scholarly journal exploring the phenomenon of "contents tourism".
The International Journal of Contents Tourism is an open-access scholarly journal exploring the phenomenon of ‘contents tourism’. Contents tourism is travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements of popular culture forms, including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels and computer games. The concept originated in Japan and is closely related to what is known as film-induced tourism or media-induced tourism in English.
IJCT publishes articles of various lengths, from original research papers through to short blog entries. It is based at Hokkaido University and the editors-in-chief are Professor Philip Seaton (International Student Center) and Professor Takayoshi Yamamura (Center for Advanced Tourism Studies).
IJCT has three main aims:
Read the journal’s constitution.
Going to two events in three weeks at which there were many cosplayers (the Toyako Manga Anime Festa in Hokkaido, 27-28 June, and Hyper Japan in London... more
FromPhilip Seaton
In the end the trip was not as expected & was a bit disappointing. Nakano Broadway is not a single shop – it’s more like a mini-shopping centr... more
FromChristopher Hood
While waiting at Paddington Station in London for a train out to the city of Bath in the west of England, I made a quick detour to the monument to Padd... more
FromPhilip Seaton
‘Free Hugs! Free Hugs!’ that’s what the group on this photo was asking for! It was during Japan Expo, the biggest Japanese pop culture event i... more
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小新井 涼
2019.3.19
Philip Seaton
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