CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.38 on Thursday, August 1. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

*This forum has been finished. Archived videos are available on CATS official YouTube.

▶ Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.38

▶ Click here for other archived videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4z592IeJi3FNJ98VevfDYA

Festivalization & Festival Reclamation:
Mapping the Communicative Ecology of Festivalscapes and Tourism in Islands

• Abstract:
  This seminar presentation explores the communicative ecology mapping approach to island festivals and related forms of public culture as performance events which construct and negotiate meaning for the island community that hosts them and their visitors. It takes Waiheke as a case study. The third most populated island in Aotearoa New Zealand, it is situated in the Hauraki Gulf, a short ferry sail from Auckland. The island’s vineyards and art studios, pleasant micro-climate and many beaches attract weekend visitors throughout the year. Waiheke is also known for its long established festivalscape, an important and integral part of the island’s community life, its identity and economy and a significant contributor to the tourism product of the Auckland City.  In recent years there has been an increase in cultural tourism events organized by the Auckland Tourism Events & Economic Development, which resulted in some events taken over from their local island focus to a regional, national and international cultural festival tourism market, including the Sculptures in the Gulf art event and the Jazz Art and Music Festival that attract thousands of visitors. In this presentation, the case study is explored through the concepts of Islands Communicative Ecology (ICE) – as a mapping of festivalscapes approach – “strange island”,  “festivalization”, and “festival reclamation.”
• Keywords: island communicative ecologies, island festivals, festival tourism, festivalization, festival reclamation
• Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
• Date/Time: Thursday 1 August 2024  |  18:30-20:00 (JST)
• Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
• Language: English
• Capacity: 50 persons
• Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
• Speaker: Dr. Evangelia Papoutsaki
  Bio:
  Evangelia Papoutsaki, PhD Cardiff, is the SICRI Co-Convenor (Small Island Cultures Research Initiative). She is the executive editor of ePress at Unitec Auckland, New Zealand; Japan Foundation Research Fellow (2025) and former International Research Fellow at the Center for Pacific Islands Research at Kagoshima University. Her research interests are on island studies and communication for social change. She has extensive experience in the Asia Pacific region, including her previous position as Head of Communication Arts Department at DWU in Papua New Guinea and UNESCO Chair Freedom of Expression PNG, involvement in major research projects and editorial roles with island studies journals. She has published three edited volumes on Pacific and PNG communication issues and a forthcoming on Island Cultures and Festivals: A Creative Ecosystem (UWI Press). www.epapoutsaki.com
• Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu
• Registration:
  Please register at the URL below.
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MgeQ70OnQ664AtitzqX8ZQ
• Contact:
  Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
  online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
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北海道大学観光学高等研究センターは、7月27日(土)に 第37回オンライン観光創造フォーラムを開催いたします。どなたでもご参加いただけます。奮ってご参加ください。

※こちらのフォーラムは終了いたしました。CATS公式YouTubeでアーカイブ動画をご視聴いただけます。

▶第37回オンライン観光創造フォーラム

▶その他のアーカイブ動画はこちら
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4z592IeJi3FNJ98VevfDYA

9/11とユナイテッド航空93便ハイジャック事件に関するインタープリテーション

• 概　要：
  今回のフォーラムでは米国にある93便ナショナル・メモリアルの教育専門家としてご活躍されているグレゴリー・ザボロウスキー氏をお招きし、事件に関わった多様な人々の物語と科学に基づく9/11とユナイテッド航空93便ハイジャック事件のインタープリテーションの実践についてお話しいただきます。2001年9月11日、４機のアメリカの航空機がハイジャックされる事件が発生し、2,977名が亡くなりました。ハイジャックされた航空機のうち、ユナイテッド航空93便は、乗客・乗員の反撃行為により、当初目標とされていた場所には到達せず、ワシントンDCから18分も離れていない野原に墜落しました。墜落現場は現在、93便ナショナル・メモリアルとして整備されています。現地では、通話記録、関係者へのインタビュー、そして墜落現場から発見された2つのブラックボックスから得られた情報に基づき、23年前に起きた事件についてのインタープリテーションが行われています。
• 主　催：北海道大学観光学高等研究センター
• 日　時：2024年7月27日（土）10:00～12:00
• 会　場：オンライン（Zoomウェビナー）
• 定　員：50名程度　先着順
• 参加費：無料（事前申込制）
• 英語－日本語逐次通訳
• 講　師：
  グレゴリー・ザボロウスキー
  米国ペンシルベニア州にある93便ナショナル・メモリアルの教育専門家。 デュケイン大学で教育学の理学士号と歴史学の修士号、ピッツバーグ大学でシアター・アート／コミュニケーションの学士号を取得。また、ピッツバーグ・フィルムメイカーズで映画／ビデオ撮影の資格を取得。国立公園局に34年間勤務し、歴史家および教育専門家として活躍。 1994年に中部大西洋地域の優秀なインタープリテーションに贈られるフリーマン・チルデン賞を受賞し、現在も全米および日本への通信教育を通じて国際的な学生教育に従事している。

• 司　会：岡田 真弓（観光学高等研究センター兼務教員・准教授）
  　　　　山村 高淑（観光学高等研究センター・教授）
• 申込方法：
  下記フォームよりご登録ください。
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  北海道大学 観光学高等研究センター　online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
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CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.37 on Saturday, July 27. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

*This forum has been finished. Archived videos are available on CATS official YouTube.

▶ Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.37

▶ Click here for other archived videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4z592IeJi3FNJ98VevfDYA

Interpreting 9/11 and the Hijacking of United Flight 93

• Abstract:
  The forum welcomes Mr. Gregory Zaborowski, an Education Specialist at the Flight 93 National Memorial in the United States. The forum’s goal is to explore the National Park Service’s interpretation initiatives and to discuss methods for interpreting historical tragedies, such as battles and wars, using science-based and holistic perspectives.
  
  On September 11, 2001, teams of Al-Qaeda terrorist hijacked four US Airline flights and flew into targets within the United States killing 2,977 people.  Of the planes hijacked United Flight 93 did not reach its designated target due to the courageous action taken by the passengers and crew members who valiantly fought back. The site where Flight 93 crashed was designated the National Memorial in 2002. Mr. Gregory Zaborowski describes vividly the evidence through phone calls, interviews, and technology such as the 2 black boxes found at the crash site as we seek to know the truth of what happened over the skies of Pennsylvania almost 23 years ago.
• Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
• Date/Time: Saturday 27 July 2024  |  10:00-12:00 (JST)
• Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
• Capacity: 50 persons
• Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
• English-Japanese Consecutive Interpreting（英語－日本語逐次通訳）
• Speaker: Mr. Gregory Zaborowski
  Bio:
  Gregory Zaborowski is Education Specialist at Flight 93 National Memorial located in the state of Pennsylvania, USA.  He has a BS in Education, a MA in History from Duquesne University, and a BA in Theater Arts/Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. In addition, he also has a Film/Videography certificate from Pittsburgh Filmmakers. He has been with the National Park Service for 34 years serving as a Historian and Education Specialist.  Recipient of the Freeman Tilden Award for Excellence in Interpretation for the Mid-Atlantic Region in 1994, he continues to educate students across the country and internationally, via distance learning to Japan.
• Moderator: Dr. OKADA Mayumi, Dr. YAMAMURA Takayoshi
• Registration:
  Please register at the URL below.
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6d93ye58QuycJRM1pJEgRQ
• Contact:
  Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
  online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
  ※Please replace the (at) part with @.

CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.36 on Thursday, July 4. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

*This forum has been finished. Archived videos are available on CATS official YouTube.

▶ Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.36

▶ Click here for other archived videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4z592IeJi3FNJ98VevfDYA

 

Place-making in contents tourism: the impacts on rural communities in Japan

• Abstract:
  Contents tourism is a dominant theme in Japan’s contemporary tourism agenda, particularly promising for rural municipalities lacking other significant tourist resources. The reopening to foreign tourists has further amplified these ambitions. This lecture draws on the ethnographic case study of Hita in Oita Prefecture to explore how the city has transformed into a “sacred place” within a few years. However, the swift development into a fan tourism site for the manga series Attack on Titan has caused tensions within the local community, including fans’ dissatisfaction with the degree of commercialization and concerns among historic town residents about the city’s new image. The lecture will provide insights into both the opportunities and risks associated with such a rapid creation of a contents tourism site.
• Keywords: contents tourism, rural community, place-making, community-building, fandom
• Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
• Date/Time: Thursday 4 July 2024  |  18:00-19:30 (JST)
• Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
• Language: English
• Capacity: 50 persons
• Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
• Speaker: Dr. Timo Thelen
  Bio:
  Timo Thelen is Assistant Professor at the School of International Studies at Kanazawa University. He has studied Japanese Studies and Cultural Anthropology in Dusseldorf and Tokyo. His research focusses on popular media, tourism, and rural culture. His monograph Revitalization and Internal Colonialism in Rural Japan was released in the Japan Anthropology Workshop Series at Routledge in 2022. Recently he has been working on a research project on witch-themed tourism in Germany.
• Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu
• Registration:
  Please register at the URL below.
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ywIzDeo4TISp6XtWrunzcA
• Contact:
  Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
  online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
  *Please replace the (at) part with @.

北海道大学観光学高等研究センターは、6月27日(木)に 第35回オンライン観光創造フォーラムを開催いたします。どなたでもご参加いただけます。奮ってご参加ください。

※こちらのフォーラムは終了いたしました。

旅行ガイドブックのこれまでとこれから

• 概　要：
  旅行ガイドブックは、効率的な旅をするうえで欠かせないアイテムである。同時に、メディアとして旅先の魅力をわかりやすく伝え、旅の楽しみを増幅させる機能もあわせ持っている。日本におけるツーリズムの変遷のなかで、旅行ガイドブックがどのように変化、進化を遂げてきたのか、その歴史について紐解いていく。また、旅行ガイドブックは、日本人の旅行行動にどのような影響を与えてきたのか（与えられてきたのか）、観光地を含む地域社会に対して、どのような貢献を果たしてきたのかについても検討を行う。さらに、昨今のデジタルシフトした社会のなかで、旅行ガイドブックは、これからどのような役割が期待されていくのかという点についてもあわせて考えてみたい。
• 主　催：北海道大学観光学高等研究センター
• 共　催：icn-crrd（文化資源研究開発☆地域間ネットワーク）https://www.icn-crrd.net/
• 日　時：2024年6月27日（木）18:30～20:00
• 会　場：オンライン（Zoomウェビナー）
• 参加費：無料（事前申込制）
• 定　員：50名程度　先着順
• 講　師：
  青木 洋高（あおきようこう）
  文教大学国際学部専任講師。株式会社JTBパブリッシングにて、『JTB時刻表』、旅行情報誌『るるぶ』などの編集・広告業務を経験した後、自治体プロモーションを担当。飲食店をメディアと位置付けた『るるぶキッチン』を立ち上げ。2023年9月北海道大学大学院国際広報メディア・観光学院博士後期課程修了、博士（観光学）。

• 司　会：　山村 高淑　北海道大学観光学高等研究センター　教授
• 申込方法：
  下記フォームよりご登録ください。
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• お問い合わせ先：
  北海道大学 観光学高等研究センター　online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
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  ＊タイトルに「観光創造フォーラムについて」とご記載ください。

CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.34 on Thursday, June 13. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

*This forum has been finished. Archived videos are available on CATS official YouTube.

▶ Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.34

▶ Click here for other archived videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4z592IeJi3FNJ98VevfDYA

Counter-urbanisation: History, Drivers, Policy and Future

• Abstract:
  What is counter-urbanisation and what is the history of this migration pattern? What are the drivers and effects of this movement to the countryside? How are these drivers and effects differentiated both at a local, regional and country level? And, what role can counter-urbanisation play in tackling population decline in rural and island communities? Drawing on the experience of the UK and Japan, this lecture seeks to tackle these questions in the context of a renewed academic and policy interest in rural in-migration. Further, examining more recent academic research on this topic, this lecture will ask, is this concept still useful for rural scholars and policy-makers alike?
• Keywords: Counter-Urbanisation; Population; Effect, Motivations; Policy
• Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
• Date/Time: Thursday 13 June 2024  |  18:30-20:00(JST)
• Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
• Language: English
• Capacity: 50 persons
• Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
• Speaker: Dr. Luke Dilley
  Bio:
  Assistant Professor Dr Luke Dilley, Akita International University, Akita, Japan. Dr Luke Dilley’s research has cut across several rural-related themes including aspiration amongst the rural poor in Kenya and sustainability and community-led rural development in Japan and the UK. His most recent work has examined kankeijinkō in Japan and he has co-written a report for the Scottish Government examining Japanese policies that address de-population in remote areas and island communities.
• Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu
• Registration:
  Please register at the URL below.
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9u5vvr2nQgyFcQANZWUhlQ
• Contact:
  Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
  online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
  *Please replace the (at) part with @.

CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.33 on Friday, May 17. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

*This forum has been finished. Archived videos are available on CATS official YouTube.

▶ Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.33

▶ Click here for other archived videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4z592IeJi3FNJ98VevfDYA

The Role of “Boys Love” Idols in Thai Tourism Campaigns: Exploring a New Case Study for Contents Tourism Studies

• Abstract:
  Recent years have seen an explosion of “Boys Love” (BL) media in Thailand, which have developed international appeal due to their handsome male stars. Since 2020, popular idol couples from Thai BL series have been consistently appearing within tourism campaigns directed towards international fans, particularly in Japan. Within this presentation, I explore how both the affective practices central to BL fandom and the practice of utilising BL couples within Thai advertising campaigns – including the use of staged homoeroticism to generate affective attachments to advertised products– have been utilised to promote new forms of popular culture tourism. Significantly, I explore how Thai BL advertising produces new forms of emotional branding which tie fans’ affective responses to homoerotic content and idols’ star personas not only to touristic destinations, but also to Thai traditional culture. I conclude by reflecting on the potential limitations of such advertising campaigns from the perspective of tourism studies.
• Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
• Date/Time: Friday 17 May 2024  |  18:00-19:30(JST)
• Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
• Language: English
• Capacity: 50 persons
• Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
• Speaker: Dr. Thomas Baudinette
  Bio:
  Dr Thomas Baudinette is Senior Lecturer in Japanese and International Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. A cultural anthropologist, his research explores the role popular culture plays in shaping knowledge about gender and sexuality across East and Southeast Asia. His first book is Regimes of Desire: Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo (University of Michigan Press, 2021). His second book is Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2023). He recently completed the Academy of Korean Studies funded project “Exploring K-pop Fandom as a Space for LGBT Support in the Asia-Pacific During Pandemic Times” (AKS-2022-R033). Thomas is currently working on his third book, tentatively titled Queer Fantasies of Asia: Japanese and Korean Media Fandom in the Philippines. He regularly blogs about his research on his personal website: www.thomasbaudinette.com.
• Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu
• Registration:
  Please register at the URL below.
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_V7BBn1USRV6vV_AxhcNNkg
• Contact:
  Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
  online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
  *Please replace the (at) part with @.

この度、北海道大学出版会から2021 年に紙媒体で出版された書籍
山村高淑・フィリップ シートン編著監訳
『コンテンツツーリズム : メディアを横断するコンテンツと越境するファンダム』
につきまして、紙媒体絶版を期に、出版社の許可を得て、北海道大学観光学高等研究センターが電子版としてオープンアクセス化させて頂くこととなりました。
以下のサイト（HUSCAP）から、電子版をご覧頂くことができます。
章毎でもダウンロード可能ですので、是非、ご覧頂ければ幸いです。
https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/91559

CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.32 on Thursday, April 4. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

*This forum has been finished. Archived videos are available on CATS official YouTube.

▶ Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.32

▶ Click here for other archived videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4z592IeJi3FNJ98VevfDYA

Second-home tourism, mobilities and local development

• Abstract:
  Second homes have been an important part of tourism development in many destinations. Although often little is known about the occurrence and use of second homes, sometimes this “hidden giant” of tourism is an important factor for community development. In many cases second homes represent family heritage and thus, it has been suggested to understand them as ‘alternate’ homes. After the Covid-19 pandemic, the increased digital transformation of work has advanced flexible temporal and spatial arrangements of everyday life for growing groups in society. This enables a greater presence of second-home owners in the destination communities, which implies new challenges and opportunities. Moreover, it also challenges traditional dichotomies of ‘home and away’ or ‘work and leisure’, and thus forces us to rethink the idea of tourism as being exceptional and out of the ordinary. This presentation will introduce topics within second-home tourism research and illustrate these not least with examples and data from northern Europe, arguing that second homes indeed are an essential part of tourism.
• Keywords: Second homes, mobilities, local development, digital transformation, destinations
• Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
• Date/Time: Thursday 4 April 2024  |  18:30-20:00(JST)
• Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
• Language: English
• Capacity: 50 persons
• Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
• Speaker: Dr. Dieter K. Müller
  Bio:
  Dieter K. Müller is professor of Human Geography, Umeå University Sweden, where he also in 1999 received his PhD on a thesis addressing international second-home ownership. Since then, he has continued to delve into various aspects of second home tourism, published for example in two volumes Mobility, Tourism and Second Homes: Between Elite Landscape and Common Ground (2004) and The Routledge Handbook of Second Home Tourism and Mobilities (2018), both co-edited with C. M. Hall. In addition, Müller has developed a research interest for the economic geographies of Arctic tourism and other tourism in peripheral areas. Particularly, focus has been on the position of indigenous people in tourism and labor market issues in these northern regions. Between 2008 and 2020 Müller has been a member of the International Geographical Union Commission for the Tourism, Leisure and Global Change, serving since 2012 also as chairperson. Today, he is a co-editor of the Springer book series Tourism and Global Change, and has various editorial roles for journals such as the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Tourism Geographies, Current Issues in Tourism, Tourism and Hospitality Management, and Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft. Since 2023, he is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu
• Registration:
  Please register at the URL below.
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jwf5c6mQS7Od5LxyV8XjJQ
• Contact:
  Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
  online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
  *Please replace the (at) part with @.

CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.31 on Wednesday, March 13. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

*This forum has been finished. Archived videos are available on CATS official YouTube.

▶ Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.31

▶ Click here for other archived videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4z592IeJi3FNJ98VevfDYA

Digital transformations of tourism and related community impacts

• Abstract:
  Since the 1960s, digital technologies have become fully entangled in the organization, production, and consumption of tourism. This presentation draws on a variety of case studies in places around the world to exemplify the opportunities and challenges that digital innovations in tourism have brought about throughout the last decades. Leading questions throughout the presentation are: what are the broader implications of digital technologies for aspects of social, environmental, and economic sustainability in tourism? How do they affect demand and supply in tourism as well as the livelihoods of communities in tourist destinations? And how may digital innovations ensure more sustainable, socially just and equitable tourism futures?
• Keywords: digital technology; digitalization; tourism communities; sustainable innovations; equitable tourism
• Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
• Date/Time: Wednesday 13 March 2024  |  19:00-20:30(JST)
• Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
• Language: English
• Capacity: 50 persons
• Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)
• Speaker: Dr. Maartje Roelofsen
  Bio:
  Maartje Roelofsen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Sustainable Urban and Regional Development from the University of Graz in Austria. Maartje’s research has examined digital transformations within the realm of tourism, urban space, and geography education. Since 2014, she has engaged in a long-term ethnographic project on Airbnb and its transformation of the home, everyday life and the gendered, racialized and classed divisions of household labour. More recently, Maartje has made contributions to debates in geography education on the use of digital technologies in learning and teaching. Maartje is an Associate Editor of the journal Tourism Geographies and has recently published a monograph on Hospitality, Home and Life in the Platform Economies of Tourism with Palgrave Macmillan.
• Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu
• Registration:
  Please register at the URL below. Application deadline is Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6rIfwLIsQs-UUMhNGPOHAw
• Contact:
  Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
  online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
  *Please replace the (at) part with @.