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.
The Poet, the Warrior and the Artist – Takaoka
This July, I visited the city of Takaoka, as part of a research project into the plants and poems of the Man’yōshū. The Man’yōshū (‘Collectio... more
FromThomas E. McAuley
One of my favourite stops on the Harry Potter walking tour of London was the street that is believed to have been the model for Diagon Alley. Cecil Cou... more
FromPhilip Seaton
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
There are many reasons to visit the lovely city of Bath in western England, such as to see the Roman baths or the attractive Georgian architecture. The... more
FromPhilip Seaton
2017.12.30
Clothilde Sabre
2016.12.22
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Clothilde Sabre
2016.12.22
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