Cultural Tourism, Camel Wrestling, and the Tourism ‘Bubble’ in Turkey

Donlon, Jon Griffin; Donlon, Jocelyn Hazelwood; Agrusa, Jerome

doi:10.1080/13032917.2010.9687088

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“…For example, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City provides a location for nostalgia sport tourists to discover the history of segregation and learn about the heritage of talented Black baseball players (Ramshaw & Gammon, 2005). Donlon, Donlon, and Agrusa (2010) study Turkish camel wrestling and show that local people participate in seasonal festive competitions, which "communicate traditional values" (p. 36) and "have become another of the many threads in the tapestry of attractions Turkey offers" to passive sport tourists (p. 35). Little research has been done on those who access heritage through travel to their own homeland as nostalgia, active, or holiday sport tourists.…”

Section: Sport Heritage Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Diaspora Approach to Sport Tourism

Joseph

2011

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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The concept of diaspora offers an alternative approach to understanding sport tourism. Sport-related travel is a powerful diasporic resource that permits migrants to connect simultaneously to their nation, region, or cultural heritage and to their dispersed peers. This ethnographic study of a Caribbean-Canadian group’s cricket tourism in St. Lucia, West Indies reveals that nostalgia sport tourists reminisce about their sporting heroes and regional histories, active sport tourists lime and reenact their homeland culture, and holiday sport tourists contribute to a broadly defined homeland through financial and material donations. These acts allow members of the Caribbean diaspora to rekindle their affiliation with their national and regional cultures, discover and express a sense of self as part of Caribbean histories, and foster a deterritorialized racial community.

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Section: Sport Heritage Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Diaspora Approach to Sport Tourism

Joseph

2011

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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“…On the one hand, scholars have believed that commercialization and touristification may increase the tourist inflow and popularize the festival, thus assisting its economic sustainability, as well as other factors. On the other hand, they have also illustrated the risks of lost authenticity caused by commercialization [5]. Similarly, many cases have been reported about how festivalization involves negotiation of authenticity [6][7][8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Among the core issues that stakeholders face to sustain traditional cultural festivals and safeguard the intangible heritage elements associated with them have been commercialization, touristification, or festivalization [5]. On the one hand, scholars have believed that commercialization and touristification may increase the tourist inflow and popularize the festival, thus assisting its economic sustainability, as well as other factors.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating with Authenticity to Ensure Sustainability of Traditional Cultural Festivals: Residents’ Perspectives about Macao’s Drunken Dragon Festival

2020

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The present study examines the three perceptual factors (cultural, economic, and social) that affect residents’ attitude towards transformation in the search for sustainability. Macao’s Drunken Dragon Festival, China’s intangible cultural heritage, was used as the case. Self-administered surveys were conducted on 378 resident festival participants in 2015 and 692 residents (both participants and non-participants) in 2017. The results show that regardless of previous experiences of participating in the festival, those who perceive more strongly about its cultural values tend to have positive attitudes towards its transformation, which may involve a loss of objective authenticity. Those who perceive more strongly that the festival is exclusive and does not embrace diverse participants are more likely to support its transformation. However, such a perception does not lead to their belief that diverse groups of people should be incorporated into the festival. Only among the non-participants from the sample collected in 2017, the perception that this festival provides economic benefit is associated with positive attitudes towards transforming and incorporating diverse groups of participants. This study provides insight into understanding the residents’ common and differentiated attitudes with regards to how much transformation is necessary to ensure sustainability of a local traditional cultural festival.

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“…For camel-based tourism, research briefings on the social side and economic impact of this subsector worldwide are noticeably scarce. Donlon et al [ 11 ] and Seifu et al [ 12 ] underlined the relevance of camel wrestling in Turkey and camel ecotourism in Botswana, respectively, and its potential as a heritage resource within this animal-based tourism enterprise. The investigation of the sociocultural attractions for foreign visitors of these animal-associated spectacles in Turkey was carried out by Çalışkan [ 13 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Camel Genetic Resources Conservation through Tourism: A Key Sociocultural Approach of Camelback Leisure Riding

Pastrana

González

Ciani

et al. 2020

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Camels are exotic elements, which can be comprised within adventure travel companies promoting ecotourism activities. Such recreations contribute to sustainable livelihoods for local communities and educational empowerment towards nature and its conservation. At present, some local camel breeds’ survival reduces to this animal-based leisure industry and its reliability to perform and promote customized services accurately. By conducting an on-site questionnaire to customers participating in camelback riding tours, we assessed the motivational factors affecting participation, satisfaction, and loyalty in this tourism segment that may have made it socially differentiated. The sixfold combination of staff performance, culture geography, diverse and humane close interaction, camel behavior and performance, sociotemporal context, and positive previous experience involves the elemental dimensions that explain customer satisfaction and return intention probability within this entertainment business. Customer knowledge is essential for stakeholders to build personalized riding experiences and align profits with environmental sustainability and biodiversity mainstream concerns into their everyday operations. In turn, domestic camel tourist rides could be managed as a viable path to nature conservation by helping endangered local breeds to avoid their functional devaluation and potential extinction.

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Cultural Tourism, Camel Wrestling, and the Tourism ‘Bubble’ in Turkey

Cited by 9 publications

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A Diaspora Approach to Sport Tourism

A Diaspora Approach to Sport Tourism

Negotiating with Authenticity to Ensure Sustainability of Traditional Cultural Festivals: Residents’ Perspectives about Macao’s Drunken Dragon Festival

Camel Genetic Resources Conservation through Tourism: A Key Sociocultural Approach of Camelback Leisure Riding

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