Green events, value perceptions, and the role of consumer involvement in festival design and performance

Wong, IpKin Anthony; Wan, Yim King Penny; Qi, Shanshan

doi:10.1080/09669582.2014.953542

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“…Building on the above points, Pernecky and Lück (2013) suggest event organizers should pay attention to the meaning of the green events from a social sustainability standpoint beyond the trend to focus on environmental impacts, so consumers would also embrace their importance. This is comparable to Wong, Wan and Qi (2015) who address how attendees can increase green awareness by spending locally to benefit the community. What is more important, the standard for the sustainability is not only focused on the environmental issues, but social-cultural and economic aspects are just as important (Richards, de Brito, & Wilks, 2013).…”

Section: The Influence Of 'Green Events' and Farmers Markets On The Lmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Scholars have explored the phenomenon of green events by focusing on waste management and principles of sustainability (e.g. Goldblatt, 2012;Jone, 2017;Laing & Frost, 2010;Rittichainuwat & Mair, 2012;Wong, Wan & Qi, 2015). Pernecky and Lück (2013) argue linear upward trends to host sustainable events helps mitigate negative impacts on the environment and creates positive impacts for society.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluating the intersection between “green events” and sense of community at Liverpool’s Lark Lane Farmers Market

Zhao

Wise

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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Evaluating the intersection between 'green events' and sense of community at Liverpool's Lark Lane FarmersMarket http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189/ Article LJMU has developed LJMU Research Online for users to access the research output of the University more effectively.Abstract: More research needs to evaluate links between community psychology and event impacts. Events are not just entertainment focused economic drivers, but gatherings contributing to society, community and local cultural identity. There is also a need to address 'green' philosophies, while visible and widespread, are not just environmentally focused, but also local community focused-concerning elements of social sustainability, belonging and sense of community. This makes the discussion of 'green events' relevant to community psychology and local well-being researchers. The aim of this study is to find other possibilities how green events could contribute to local community well-being by investigating how farmers markets unite people to understand how such events reinforce and shape sense of community. This paper is based on participant observations and semi-structured interviews to explore the conceptual notion of sense of community. Three emerged themes are presented: local participation; social atmosphere; and sense of belonging.

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Section: The Influence Of 'Green Events' and Farmers Markets On The Lmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the intersection between “green events” and sense of community at Liverpool’s Lark Lane Farmers Market

Zhao

Wise

2019

Journal Community Psychology

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“…While sustainability-focused events are gaining popularity, they attract visitors from local communities, as well as tourists [6], and have the potential to attract a variety of different consumer segments. Green seekers are one important segment of potential event visitors [14]. These visitors show their concern for environmental issues, tend to be positively minded towards measures of environmental protection, and are interested in committing themselves proactively to environmentally-friendly practices [11,14].…”

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Motivating Pro-Sustainable Behavior: The Potential of Green Events—A Case-Study from the Munich Streetlife Festival

Tölkes

Butzmann

2018

Sustainability

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Green events are staged to encourage visitors to adopt more sustainable lifestyles. The Munich Streetlife Festival (SLF) has such a sustainability focus reflected in an education program that aims to reach out to both sustainability-minded visitors and broader audiences. Therefore, this study examined the learning effects of the SLF’s education program regarding different visitor segments. We employed the transtheoretical model (TTM) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB), to relate the learning outcomes to the visitors’ positioning in the stages of change model and visitor attitudes, subjective norms, and constraints. We conducted a visitor survey during the SLF in May 2015 and employed structural equation modelling to analyze the data. The motivational variable “learning about environmental protection” is positively correlated with pro-sustainable behaviors, whilst the variable “enjoying the event” shows a negative correlation. Our findings indicated that this event’s sustainability communication mainly appealed to sustainability-minded visitors in the action stage. Conscious visitors showed higher learning effects than visitors in the pre-contemplation stage, which was in line with the TTM’s propositions. This study enhanced our theoretical understanding of visitor behavioral change and supported green event managers in the development of target-group specific and more effective sustainability communications.

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“…Suspicions have been raised about how these attempts may be as much about gaining a brand advantage (Wong et al, 2015) as about any deeply felt concerns about the impact of sizeable events that are sometimes staged in fragile rural ecosystems (Cierjacks, Behr, and Kowarik, 2012;Henderson and Musgrave, 2014). Nonetheless the link is certainly there, as indeed it always has been with festivals long providing a home for counter cultural thought regarding the value of current norms and the sustainability of human consumption (Sharpe, 2008).…”

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Should there be more showers at the summer music festival? Studying the contextual dependence of resource consuming conventions and lessons for sustainable tourism

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Browne

Jack

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Green events, value perceptions, and the role of consumer involvement in festival design and performance

Cited by 73 publications

References 53 publications

Evaluating the intersection between “green events” and sense of community at Liverpool’s Lark Lane Farmers Market

Evaluating the intersection between “green events” and sense of community at Liverpool’s Lark Lane Farmers Market

Motivating Pro-Sustainable Behavior: The Potential of Green Events—A Case-Study from the Munich Streetlife Festival

Should there be more showers at the summer music festival? Studying the contextual dependence of resource consuming conventions and lessons for sustainable tourism

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