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.
銃撃戦の中、駅の階段を落ちていく乳母車。米映画『アンタッチャブル』（The Untouchables/1987）で、強烈な印象を... more
FromTakayoshi Yamamura
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
Much of the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (Gilbert 1967) was filmed in Japan. Whilst Himeji Castle is perhaps the most iconic and well-known of t... more
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