Real-life escape rooms as a new recreational attraction: the case of Turkey

Dilek, Sebahattin Emre; Dilek, Nur Kulakoğlu

doi:10.1080/13032917.2018.1439760

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“…Similar results were achieved by Dilek & Dilek (2018), who analysed the experiences of visitors to 33 escape rooms in Turkey, on the basis of 1079 opinions posted on TripAdvisor. The results prove that players gain original, lively experiences by solving difficult riddles, as well as working in a team (social element).…”

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“…In this case, hyper-reality means imitating real, or even "more real than real" experiences(Williams, 2002, p. 190).2 Some researchers view them as typical simulacra(Dilek, Dilek, 2018).3 The name highlights the special state of mind between satisfaction and euphoria, caused by total immersion in an activity (in this case -playing a game in an escape room). Focusing on the task for the pure pleasure of doing it leads to a feeling of excitement, elation, or even ecstasy.…”

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Escape rooms in Poland: A demand-led approach using ‘netnographic’ research

Stasiak

2019

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During five years of extremely rapid and spontaneous development, escape rooms have become a permanent component of Polish urban space. At the same time, this form of recreation has gained a whole community of enthusiasts. The aim of the article is to present a comprehensive description of the people who visit escape rooms in Poland through an online survey including 718 users of lockme.pl, the largest promotional and booking portal in the country. The results have enabled the author to identify the socio-demographic features of the players, sources of information about escape rooms, user motivations, the frequency, character and course of visits, the emotions accompanying the game, as well as general opinions and evaluations of Polish escape rooms.

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Escape rooms in Poland: A demand-led approach using ‘netnographic’ research

Stasiak

2019

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“…Based on the above-mentioned criteria an escape room was selected as the case context for this study. An escape room is an experience product were visitors are locked inside a room and have to find a way to "escape" the room by solving a number of puzzles with the help of clues and hints hidden inside the room (Dilek & Dilek, 2018). The specific room chosen for this study was offered by Escape Reality Trondheim AS and was called "The Heist".…”

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Consumer immersion in managed visitor attractions: The role of individual responses and antecedent factors

Blumenthal

2020

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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While there is a growing interest in immersive experiences and visitor immersion within the tourism industry, there is still a deficiency of empirical research focusing on how visitors become immersed. This study explores the subjective nature of the immersion process by focusing on the moderating role of individual responses and the influence of antecedent factors in the process. Empirical evidence for the purpose of this study was collected through a combination of field observations and group interviews with guests visiting an Escape Room in Norway. Six individual responses that appeared to moderate the individual visitors' immersion process were identified in the study; including affective, behavioral, and cognitive responses. Findings further indicated that these responses were influenced by personal, external and social antecedents, as well as by the visitors' own appraisal of the core features of the experience product. The findings presented in this article shed light on the individual nature of the immersion process and the factors that moderate the visitors' progression towards a state of immersion.

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“…These contributions both show the remarkable growth of the sector, its major relationships with recreation, and its special impact on the millennial generation. For their part (demandled approaches), Kolar (2017), Kolar and Čater (2018), Dilek andDilek (2018), andStasiak (2019) analyse users' experiences using etnography techniques. In these cases, the study area takes a second place and the phenomenon is contextualised within hospitality research as novelty experiences, post-modern tourism and the management of flows.…”

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Decoding escape rooms from a tourism perspective: A global scale analysis

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Martı́n

2021

Moravian Geographical Reports

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There has been a spectacular growth in the escape game sector over the past decade. The extraordinary global impact of escape rooms, their implications for tourism, and the limited literature provide grounds for this research. This paper examines such phenomena using an empirical methodology based on a geographic analysis of business repositories and a global survey. Tourism plays a significant role in the escape room industry: approximately one of every three customers is a tourist. Escape roomer-tourists have even been detected: people who essentially plan their trips with the sole intention of playing these games. A significant contrast exists between business-owners and countries, however, as to the role given to foreign customers and the opportunities that all the above implies. Indeed, the connection between escape room narratives and the local culture has been shown to be weak in a majority of cases. Thus, this contribution seeks to feed into an emerging and increasingly relevant debate that has been little addressed in tourism geography: linking experiences, creative economies, authenticity and cultural heritage, etc. – through escape rooms.

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Real-life escape rooms as a new recreational attraction: the case of Turkey

Cited by 12 publications

References 44 publications

Escape rooms in Poland: A demand-led approach using ‘netnographic’ research

Escape rooms in Poland: A demand-led approach using ‘netnographic’ research

Consumer immersion in managed visitor attractions: The role of individual responses and antecedent factors

Decoding escape rooms from a tourism perspective: A global scale analysis

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