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Contents tourism


  • Here are entered works on tourism based on fan culture from popular media, such as television programs, anime, video games, or motion pictures. Works on the tourist trade that provides or promotes travel to places of historic or cultural interest are entered under [Heritage tourism.]
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    • found: Work cat: 2019029539: Contents tourism and pop culture fandom, 2020:summary (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.')
    • found: Seaton, P.A. Contents tourism in Japan, 2017:summary (Contents tourism is defined as travel behavior 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.)
    • found: Graburn, N. Contents tourism: Background, context, and future in Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, v. 18(1), 2020; viewed via Proquest (ABI/INFORM)Abstract (Contents Tourism is a Japanese [term] designating tourism which is stimulated by Popular Culture. Under the present circumstances, fan tourists, as well as contents businesses and local authorities/communities, are all expressing their creativity in the context of tourism and delivering their contents through a variety of media)
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    • G156.5.C66
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    • Here are entered works on tourism based on fan culture from popular media, such as television programs, anime, video games, or motion pictures. Works on the tourist trade that provides or promotes travel to places of historic or cultural interest are entered under [Heritage tourism.]
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    • Note under [Heritage tourism]
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    • 2019-10-11: new
    • 2023-02-22: revised
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