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.
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
While doing war memory related fieldwork in Osaka in May this year, I had a chance to visit the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum in the nearby city of Takaraz... more
FromAleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny
On a recent trip to Chicago for a conference, I decided to check out the location of the building where the siege in The Negotiator took place. I've wa... more
FromPhilip Seaton
Doai Station on the Jōetsu Mainline was used for scenes in both the 2005 NHK dramatization of Kuraimāzu Hai (‘Climber’s High') and the 2008 movie... more
FromChristopher P. Hood
ヤマなし、オチなし、イミなし、何があるの？ 〜YaoiCon取材記〜
やおいとは、主に男性同士の同性愛を題材にした女性向けのマンガ、アニメ、小説のことを言います。二次創作... more
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