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:
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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
The ‘Mighty Mo’, the USS Missouri, has a special place in history as the location where Japan’s surrender ending World War Two was signed. But it... more
FromChristopher P. Hood
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
But are they contents tourists?
This scene really got me thinking about what it means to be a contents tourist. It was taken in Hokkaido Greenland, an amusement park in Iwamizawa, Hok... more
FromPhilip Seaton
Now this is an interesting location. It's the Millennium Bridge across the Thames in central London. It appears in the sixth film of the Harry Potter s... more
FromPhilip Seaton
2019.3.22
小新井 涼
2019.3.19
Philip Seaton
2019.3.19
Philip Seaton
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