Abstract
Honolulu Marathon commands great popularity among the Japanese because it offers many visitors a way to turn themselves into a ”traveler” in search of the ”real” journey. However, the marathon course, designed by the state's tourist industry, is carefully chosen to show only certain images of Hawaii to the runners.
This study shows Honolulu Marathon has both the elements of ”travel” and tourism and it actually is neither a ”travel” nor a ”tour”. Rather, it is a ”simulated” travel, which challenges the conventional binary as has been discussed by Daniel Boorstin and others that defines ”travel” as ”real” and ”tourism” as ”fake.”
