Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom : : Transnational Tourist Experiences / / ed. by Takayoshi Yamamura, Philip Seaton.

This is the first book to apply the concept of ‘contents tourism’ in a global context and to establish an international and interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research. The term ‘contents tourism’ gained official recognition in Japan when it was defined by the Japanese government in 20...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Contemporary 2016-2020
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Aspects of Tourism ; 88
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Contents Tourism Beyond Anime Tourism
  • Part 1: The Contentsization of Literary Worlds
  • 1. The Contents Tourism of Jane Austen’s American Fans
  • 2. Conceptualizing Contents Brandscapes: The Brontë Brand
  • 3. The Witcher Novels and Games-inspired Tourism in Poland
  • 4. Travelling Heidi: International Contents Tourism Induced by Japanese Anime
  • Part 2: Tourist Behaviours at ‘Sacred Sites’ of Contents Tourism
  • 5. The Cotswolds and Children’s Literature in Japanese Fantasy: The Case of Castle Combe
  • 6. Yōkai Tourism in Japan and Taiwan
  • 7. Contents Tourism and Religious Imagination
  • 8. The 2.5-Dimensional Theatre as a Communication Site: Non-site-specific Theatre Tourism
  • 9. Indonesian Cosplay Tourism
  • Part 3: Contents Tourism as Pilgrimage
  • 10. Outbound Tourism Motivated by Domestic Films: Contentsized Koreanness in Thai Movies and Tourism to Korea
  • 11. Contents Tourism in Plane Sight
  • 12. Breaking Benjamin: A Woman’s Pilgrimage to New Mexico
  • 13. From Banjo to Basho: Poets, Contents and Tourism
  • Conclusions: Sustainable Contents Tourism in the 21st Century
  • Index