Abstract
S. Beeton defines tourism developed by the soft power of media as "media-induced tourism." Such tourism can be considered a research object that bridges tourism and media studies. However, media-induced tourism has rarely been studied from this perspective in tourism research, whereas the aspects that positively contribute to modern society's values and local communities have been frequently studied. Beyond these studies, connecting tourism and media research and renewing and repurposing both fields is crucial. In particular, in the field of media-induced tourism research, radical and fundamental questions about tourism and media, such as "what is tourism" and "what is media," should be posed with the goal of actively integrating and reinventing tourism and media research. In this paper, I examine this topic in greater depth.