Motives of visitors attending festival events

Crompton, John L.; McKay, Stacey L.

doi:10.1016/s0160-7383(97)80010-2

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“…If too much is happening in a person's world, then the person seeks to cut-off stimulation and find a quieter environment" (1991: 57-58). Crompton and McKay (1997) provide a more technical definition of tourist motivation that includes the concept of homeostasis, the ability or tendency of an organism to maintain internal equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes to external influences. These authors also claim that tourist motivation should be conceived as a dynamic process made up from internal psychological factors (needs and desires) that create a state of tension or imbalances within the individual, which then generates the need for the tension to be resolved through a decision to travel, or not to travel, to a particular destination.…”

Section: Travel Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban tourist motivations: why visit Ljubljana?

Kovačić

Kennell

Vujičić

et al. 2017

IJTC

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PurposeThe aim of this paper is to develop a new perspective on urban tourist motivations by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model to help to understand how tourists make decisions about which destinations to visit. MethodThis study was based on 30 1-hour long structured interviews with visitors to Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia. Respondents were asked to express their preferences between different pull-factor motives for their visit, using Saaty's scale, and further qualitative data was collected to examine these preferences in more depth. FindingsThe results of this study indicate that the most relevant criteria and thus predominant factors in motivation for visits to Ljubljana are the Cultural and Nightlife pull-factors, while Religious and Business motives are the lowest ranked factors. The paper argues that the results show the value of applying the AHP model to understand the role of pull-factors in urban tourism destination choice. Research limitations/implicationsAs a single-destination case study, it is important that the findings of this research are evaluated against similar studies in other cities. A limitation of this research is the fact that sub motives within major groups of pull-factor motives have not been explored in this study and this should be the subject of future, more detailed research. Originality/valueThis research shows the value of applying, AHP, an under-used method to understand urban tourist motivations. The new knowledge gained through applying this method is of value to destination marketing organisations as well as to researchers conducting future studies, who will be able to replicate it and test its value.

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Section: Travel Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban tourist motivations: why visit Ljubljana?

Kovačić

Kennell

Vujičić

et al. 2017

IJTC

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“…Crompton and McKay (1997) fi rst proposed grouping motivations into the categories of pull and push factors, and this concept continues to be used by numerous other researchers (Jang & Wu, 2006). According to Patuelli and Nijkamp (2015), push motivation is internal and refers to the needs and desires which are not destination-specifi c. In contrast, pull motivation pertains to external tangible or intangible attributes perceived by potential tourists as destination-specifi c. Therefore, push motivations are more linked with the overall (general) personal wish to travel that grows from personality and its interaction with the current environment (especially, it that environment is not rich or fulfi lling enough).…”

Section: Seniors' Travel Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Push and Pull Factors of Senior Travelers: The Lingering Influence of Past Restrictions

Urbonavičius

Palaima

Radavičienė

et al. 2017

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Purpose -The paper analyzes push and pull motivations of senior travelers who have experienced externally imposed travel restrictions earlier in life.Design/Methodology/Approach -This study is designed to measure push and pull factors of senior travelers, together with positive and negative eff ects among the respondents who have experienced travel restrictions in their past. The exploration of lingering eff ects from previous travel restrictions is based on the comparison of fi ndings with prior studies, conducted in environments that did not include the contextual factor of previous travel restrictions. In order to enable the comparison, a selected study is followed by using similar methodological and analytical approaches (e.g. survey sample and methods of analysis). This kind of analysis allowed discovering diff erences in fi ndings that can be attributed to the lingering eff ects of past restrictions on travel and that still infl uence motivations of current senior travelers. The survey was conducted in Lithuania, a country with a memory of historical restrictions on traveling, rather typical of many countries of Eastern Europe and several others in other parts of the world.Findings and implications -The study found that the lingering eff ects of past restrictions on travel infl uences Sažetak Svrha -Rad analizira motivacije guranja i privlačenja starijih putnika koji su prije doživjeli izvana nametnuta putna ograničenja.Metodološki pristup -Istraživanje je osmišljeno tako da mjeri čimbenike guranja i privlačenja starijih putnika zajedno s pozitivnim i negativnim utjecajima među ispitanicima koji su nekad prije iskusili nametnuta putna ograničenja. Istraživanje zadržanih učinaka prethodnih putnih ograničenja temelji se na usporedbi rezultata s ranijim istraživanjima koja su provođena u okruženjima koja nisu uključivala kontekstualni čimbenik prethodnih putnih ograničenja. Kako bi se omogućila usporedba, provedeno istraživanje slijedi odabrano istraživanje sličnog metodološkog i analitičkog pristupa (npr. uzorak ankete i metode analize). Ovaj je način analize omogućio otkrivanje razlika u rezultatima koje mogu biti pripisane zadržanim učincima prošlih putnih ograničenja koji još uvijek utječu na motivacije sadašnjih starijih putnika. Istraživanje je provedeno u Litvi, zemlji koja predstavlja stanje s povijesnim ograničenjima pri putovanju, koja su dosta tipična za mnoge zemlje Istočne Europe i nekoliko slučajeva u drugim dijelovima svijeta. current motivations of senior travelers; thus, their motivations diff er from those of senior travelers coming from the countries in which there were no travel restrictions in the past. Specifi cally, the diff erences include increased importance of travel cost and of personal ego enhancement, and lower sensitivity to comfort. Rezultati i implikacije -Istraživanje je otkrilo da zadržani učinci putnih ograničenja iz prošlosti utječu naLimitations -Although the study is based on a sample drawn from one country (Lithuania), the fi ndings may be extended to other coun...

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“…As UNESCO's international jazz day recognises Also, jazz festivals have been sites for transformative -even spiritual -experiences for their participants (Regis and Walton 2008;Walton 2012). Motivation to attend festivals in general is either to escape everyday life and/or to seek new experiences (Crompton and McKay 1997) while at the more extreme end of the scale, jazz festivals have caused people to change career or lifestyle, to move to be closer to a festival site, or to behave differently towards others (Walton 2012).…”

Section: Socio-political Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of (jazz) festivals

Webster¹,

McKay²

2016

JAZZ

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Festivals are an essential part of the jazz world, forming regularly occurring pivot points around which jazz musicians, audiences, and organizers plan their lives.Funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council, the purpose of this report is to chart and critically examine available writing about the impact of jazz festivals, drawing on both academic and 'grey'/cultural policy literature in the field.The review presents research findings under the headings of economic impact; socio-political impact; temporal impact and intensification and transformation of experience; creative impact -music and musicians; discovery and audience development; place-making; the mediation of jazz festivals; and environmental impact. It concludes with a set of recommendations for future research, which identifies gaps in the field. To accompany the article, a 100-entry 40,000 word annotated bibliography has also been produced, which is freely accessible online.

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Motives of visitors attending festival events

Cited by 922 publications

References 11 publications

Urban tourist motivations: why visit Ljubljana?

Urban tourist motivations: why visit Ljubljana?

Push and Pull Factors of Senior Travelers: The Lingering Influence of Past Restrictions

The impact of (jazz) festivals

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