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.
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
Harry Potter was not only filmed in studios. There are many places around London and other parts of the UK used as locations. I am from London and have... more
FromPhilip Seaton
I love Harry Potter. I don't think it's "children's fiction". It's fiction that doesn't require adult content (sex, violence, bad language) in order to... more
FromPhilip Seaton
Click here for the first part. Then the two friends moved over to the handprints of the stars. Here the "new" ways of taking and sharing photographs... more
FromPhilip Seaton
Since the conference is held in Musashino area, and I also stay in a hotel nearby, I wanted to know who lived and wrote about this area. Dazai Osamu (... more
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Philip Seaton
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