Thelen Timo ＴＨＥＬＥＮＴＩＭＯ

Researcher Number	90837452
Other IDs	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5859-3094
Affiliation (Current)	2026: 金沢大学, 国際学系, 准教授
Affiliation (based on the past Project Information) *help	2023 – 2025: 金沢大学, 国際学系, 准教授 2019 – 2022: 金沢大学, 歴史言語文化学系, 講師
Review Section/Research Field	Principal Investigator Basic Section 80020:Tourism studies-related
Keywords	Principal Investigator Media / Tourism / Culture / Heritage / Placemaking / Fans / Authenticity / film tourism / Germany / popular culture … More / fandom / contents tourism / Anthropology / Globalization / Fan Studies / Media Tourism / Contents Tourism Less

Research Projects
(3 results)
Research Products
(14 results)

Exploring a polyphonic approach for tourism place-making at contested sitesPrincipal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
  
  THELEN TIMO
- Project Period (FY)
  2025 – 2027
- Research Category
  
  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
- Review Section
  
  Basic Section 80020:Tourism studies-related
- Research Institution
  Kanazawa University
Reconciling Light Contents Tourism and Dark History: A Case Study of Witch-Themed Tourism and Its ConflictsPrincipal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
  
  THELEN TIMO
- Project Period (FY)
  2022 – 2025
- Research Category
  
  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
- Review Section
  
  Basic Section 80020:Tourism studies-related
- Research Institution
  Kanazawa University
Challenges and Potentials of Transnational Film/Contents Tourism: A Case Study of Japanese Fan Tourists in GermanyPrincipal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
  
  Thelen Timo
- Project Period (FY)
  2019 – 2022
- Research Category
  
  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
- Review Section
  
  Basic Section 80020:Tourism studies-related
- Research Institution
  Kanazawa University

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[Book] Das landliche Japan zwischen Idylle und Verfall2020
- Author(s)
  Ludgera Lewerich, Theresa Sieland, Timo Thelen
- Total Pages
  146
- Publisher
  DeGruyter
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20565
[Journal Article] The Creation Process of a Rural “Sacred Pilgrimage Site” by Implementing Pop-Cultural Content Tourist Resources: A Case Study with Focus on Local Organizations and the Role of Urban-to-Rural Migrants.2025
- Author(s)
  KAI Tomohiro、THELEN Timo、KIM Sangkyun
- Journal Title
  
  Quarterly Journal of Geography
  
  Volume: 77 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-19
- DOI
  10.5190/tga.77.1_1
- ISSN
  0916-7889, 1884-1252
- Language
  Japanese
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-24K00179, KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K18100
[Journal Article] Pushing ‘LGBT-Friendliness’ into Japanese Television: A Case Study of ‘My Brother’s Husband’2025
- Author(s)
  Thelen, Timo
- Journal Title
  
  New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification. (Eds.: Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday & Dany Girard)
  
  Volume: n.a. Pages: 62-66
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K18100
[Journal Article] Negotiating Dark and Light Magic Witch-Themed Tourism in Harz, Germany, in a Transcultural Context2024
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Journal Title
  
  Media, Place and Tourism Worlds of Imagination (edited by S. Reijnders et al.)
  
  Volume: n.a. Pages: 183-198
- Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K18100
[Journal Article] Understanding fan tourists at a non-commodified fan pilgrimage site: an application of fan capital theory2021
- Author(s)
  Thelen Timo、Kim Sangkyun
- Journal Title
  
  Current Issues in Tourism
  
  Volume: tba Issue: 1 Pages: 1-6
- DOI
  10.1080/13683500.2021.2011162
- Peer Reviewed
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20565
[Journal Article] Transnational comic tourism and fan capital: Japanese Attack on Titan fans traveling to Germany2020
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Journal Title
  
  Participations
  
  Volume: 17.2 Pages: 303-325
- Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20565
[Journal Article] Film tourism impacts: a multi-stakeholder longitudinal approach2020
- Author(s)
  Thelen Timo、Kim Sangkyun、Scherer Elisabeth
- Journal Title
  
  Tourism Recreation Research
  
  Volume: online Issue: 3 Pages: 1-16
- DOI
  10.1080/02508281.2020.1718338
- Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20565
[Presentation] Place-making in contents tourism: the impacts on rural communities in Japan2024
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Organizer
  CATS Lecture, Hokkaido University
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K18100
[Presentation] Witch heritage and tourism in the Harz region2023
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Organizer
  Hokuriku German Studies Annual Conference
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K18100
[Presentation] Attack on Titan’s Impact on Japanese German language learners and media tourists2022
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Organizer
  Hokuriku Annual Meeting of German Studies Society, Kanazawa, Japan
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20565
[Presentation] Place making of a fan pilgrimage site2022
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Organizer
  Global Perspectives on Media Tourism Speakers’ Event. Karlstad University, Sweden
- Invited
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20565
[Presentation] Planning Nearly Impossible: Fieldwork in Covid-19 Japan2022
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Organizer
  Ethnology 2 Panel, Japanologentag 2022, Dusseldorf University, Germany
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K18100
[Presentation] Transnational fan tourism and spatial poaching: Japanese Attack on Titan fans in Germany2021
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Organizer
  Worlds of Imagination, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Int'l Joint Research
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20565
[Presentation] Foreign Wife and Japanese Whisky: Multiculturalism and Japaneseness in the NHK Morning Drama Series Massan2019
- Author(s)
  Timo Thelen
- Organizer
  EAJS 3rd Japan Conference, Tsukuba
- Data Source
  KAKENHI-PROJECT-19K20565

Thelen Timo ＴＨＥＬＥＮ ＴＩＭＯ

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Exploring a polyphonic approach for tourism place-making at contested sitesPrincipal Investigator

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Reconciling Light Contents Tourism and Dark History: A Case Study of Witch-Themed Tourism and Its ConflictsPrincipal Investigator

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Challenges and Potentials of Transnational Film/Contents Tourism: A Case Study of Japanese Fan Tourists in GermanyPrincipal Investigator

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[Book] Das landliche Japan zwischen Idylle und Verfall2020

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[Journal Article] The Creation Process of a Rural “Sacred Pilgrimage Site” by Implementing Pop-Cultural Content Tourist Resources: A Case Study with Focus on Local Organizations and the Role of Urban-to-Rural Migrants.2025

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[Journal Article] Pushing ‘LGBT-Friendliness’ into Japanese Television: A Case Study of ‘My Brother’s Husband’2025

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[Journal Article] Negotiating Dark and Light Magic Witch-Themed Tourism in Harz, Germany, in a Transcultural Context2024

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[Journal Article] Understanding fan tourists at a non-commodified fan pilgrimage site: an application of fan capital theory2021

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[Journal Article] Transnational comic tourism and fan capital: Japanese Attack on Titan fans traveling to Germany2020

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[Journal Article] Film tourism impacts: a multi-stakeholder longitudinal approach2020

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[Presentation] Place-making in contents tourism: the impacts on rural communities in Japan2024

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[Presentation] Witch heritage and tourism in the Harz region2023

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[Presentation] Attack on Titan’s Impact on Japanese German language learners and media tourists2022

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[Presentation] Place making of a fan pilgrimage site2022

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[Presentation] Planning Nearly Impossible: Fieldwork in Covid-19 Japan2022

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[Presentation] Transnational fan tourism and spatial poaching: Japanese Attack on Titan fans in Germany2021

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[Presentation] Foreign Wife and Japanese Whisky: Multiculturalism and Japaneseness in the NHK Morning Drama Series Massan2019

Thelen Timo ＴＨＥＬＥＮＴＩＭＯ