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Description:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: Contents Tourism Beyond Anime Tourism -- 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 -- 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 -- 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
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 2005, and it has been characterised as ‘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 book builds on previous research from Japan and explores three main themes of contents tourism: ‘the Contentsization of Literary Worlds’, ‘Tourist Behaviours at “Sacred Sites” of Contents Tourism’ and ‘Contents Tourism as Pilgrimage’ and draws together these key themes to propose a set of policy implications for achieving successful and sustainable contents tourism in the 21st century