Contents tourism and pop culture fandom : transnational tourist experiences /
edited by Takayoshi Yamamura and Philip Seaton.
- xiv, 249 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Aspects of tourism; 88 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The contents tourism of Jane Austen's American fans / Philip Seaton -- Conceptualising contents brandscapes : the Brontë brand / Maree Thyne & Gretchen Larsen -- The Witcher novels and games-inspired tourism in Poland / Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny -- Traveling Heidi : international contents tourism induced by Japanese anime / Takayoshi Yamamura -- The Cotswolds and children's literature in Japanese fantasy : the case of Castle Combe / Catherine Butler -- Yōkai tourism in Japan and Taiwan / Shinobu Myoki -- Contents tourism and religious imagination / Kyungjae Jang -- The 2.5-dimensional theatre as a communication site : non-site-specific theatre tourism / Akiko Sugawa-Shimada -- Indonesian cosplay tourism / Ranny Rastati -- Outbound tourism motivated by domestic films : contentsized Koreanness in Thai movies and tourism to Korea / Sueun Kim -- Contents tourism in plane sight / Christopher Hood -- Breaking Benjamin : a woman's pilgrimage to New Mexico / Stefanie Benjamin -- From banjo to basho : poets, contents and tourism / Sue Beeton -- Sustainable contents tourism in the 21st century / Philip Seaton.
"The term 'contents tourism' has been defined as 'travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture...'. This is the first book to apply the concept of contents tourism in a global context and to establish an interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research"--