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.
Taking inspiration from the film Love in Tokyo, 1966- I visited the gigantic Tokyo Tower. I was always interested in visiting this place because of 2 a... more
FromApoorva Nanjangud
Macross Frontier is the third series set in the popular science-fiction (SF) anime world of Macross and is currently enjoying its 10th year anniversary... more
FromCraig Norris
Since the conference is held in Musashino area, and I also stay in a hotel nearby, I wanted to know who lived and wrote about this area. Dazai Osamu (... more
FromZhang Tianxin
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
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