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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CACTUS</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">CACTUS J Tour Bus Manag Econ</journal-id>

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        <journal-title>CACTUS – Journal of Tourism Business, Management and Economics</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2247-3297</issn>

      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>ASE Publishing House</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Bucharest, Romania</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">cactus-2018-7</article-id>

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          <subject>Z31, Z1</subject>
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        <article-title>Film-Induced Tourism Among Students – An Exploratory Study</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Diaconescu</surname>
            <given-names>Vlad</given-names>
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          <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7840-5849</contrib-id>
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          <email>vladd25sept@yahoo.com</email>
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          <institution>Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania</institution>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>15</day>
        <month>6</month>
        <year>2018</year>
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      <volume>17</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      
      

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        <date date-type="received"><day>15</day><month>6</month><year>2018</year></date>
        
        
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        <copyright-statement>Copyright © 2018, The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2018</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Students and young people travel are a growing market, which is becoming increasingly important for tourism service providers. Film-induced tourism is also a rising form of tourism. However, there is not much research to link students&apos; behavior to film-induced tourism. This research aims at researching two areas of tourism, focusing on students&apos; general awareness of film-induced tourism and their experiences with accidental or intentional encounters with film settings. Furthermore, this paper also includes an analysis of students&apos; interests in various film-related activities, such as visiting places that have become famous as a result of a movie, places where films have been cast, film-theme parks, movie tours or attending film premieres and film festivals. The study was conducted through an online survey in the form of a questionnaire that included both open and closed-ended questions. A total of 102 answers were collected and evaluated from students at various universities, up to age of 26 years. The interest in film-induced tourism among students is very high (about 88% wanting to participate in film-induced tourism activities), students being particularly keen on visits to places that have become famous as a result of a film (63.7%) and to places where movies were cast (61.5%).It also emerged that Romania is a little sought-after movie destination, but with a very high potential for growth, especially if the state was involved in promotion.</p></abstract>

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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Film-induced tourism</kwd>
<kwd>touristic behavior</kwd>
<kwd>travels</kwd>
<kwd>film festivals</kwd>
<kwd>FIT</kwd>
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