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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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
Much of the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (Gilbert 1967) was filmed in Japan. Whilst Himeji Castle is perhaps the most iconic and well-known of t... more
FromChristopher P. Hood
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
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
2022.11.15
Philip Seaton
2019.3.22
小新井 涼
2019.3.19
Philip Seaton
2016.12.22
2016.6.13
2016.4.8