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 Takayoshi Yamamura (Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University) and Professor Philip Seaton (Institute of Japan Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).
IJCT has three main aims:
Read the journal’s constitution.
It is possible to have a great Harry Potter tourism experience in ... Japan. Japan has virtually nothing to do with the novels (although there is a Qui... more
FromPhilip Seaton
Hideo Yokoyama’s novel Kuraimāzu Hai (‘Climber’s High’) tells the story of a small, local fictional newspaper as it covers the story of the cr... more
FromChristopher P. Hood
Geisha as a popular object of Japanese tourism
I had the opportunity to travel to the city of Kanazawa this past winter, and participated in an open-house tour of a historical tea house operated by ... more
FromYunzi Zhang-Jiao
There are many scenes in Hogwarts that were shot not in studios but at historical buildings around the UK. One of those buildings is Lacock Abbey in Wi... more
FromPhilip Seaton
I would not have thought that the same city I spent my Doctorate education would also be a site for Mamoru Hosoda’s 2012 anime Wolf’s Children. Hak... more
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