Residents’ support for festivals: integration of emotional solidarity

Li, Xiangping; Wan, Yim King Penny

doi:10.1080/09669582.2016.1224889

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“…While a little percentage was motivated to participate in an event at the ski resorts as a push factor, 43% have attended an event during their visit. Thus, the importance of promoting offseason events at ski resorts in Lebanon with emphasize on traditions and other intangible values, because they can reduce seasonal tourism demand by maintaining sustainable tourism development (Li & Wan, 2016).…”

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Seasonal Tourism Demand in Lebanese Ski Resorts

Ghadban

Shames

Arrage

et al. 2019

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Purpose of the study: The main objective of this study is to analyze the profile of Lebanese ski resorts’ visitors, their motivations, preferences, and perceptions. Thus, authors seek to analyze the characteristics of seasonal tourism demand in Lebanese ski resorts for the sake of reducing seasonality. Methodology: Quantitative methods were used and four out of the five ski resorts in Lebanon were analyzed. An online questionnaire was distributed to visitors, using a mix of self-selection and snowball sampling techniques. The questionnaire resulted in 206 respondents. Responses showed high internal validity with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.83. Main Findings: The relationship between place attachment and annual visitations was validated and authors were able to point the deteriorated value for money among resorts. Furthermore, the K-mean clustering resulted in segmenting visitors into three groups of interest to be targeted in order to reduce seasonality. Implications: This study helps the winter and snow tourism stakeholders in Lebanon to reduce tourism seasonality and consequently develop sustainable tourism products. It also enhances previous studies conducted on seasonal tourism demand. Limitations: The main limitation is that not all stakeholders were examined. Further research is needed to be conducted on visitors’ decision-making processes and their actual behavior. The proposed segments in this study are subject to future tests and investigations. The novelty of the study: With no previous research attempting to analyze seasonal demand in Lebanese ski resorts; this study has a vital role to play in developing sustainable tourism products and helping winter and snow tourism stakeholders to reduce tourism seasonality. The clusters presented at the end of this paper are considered as a new proposition for ski resorts’ managers who are shifting toward all-season operations.

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Seasonal Tourism Demand in Lebanese Ski Resorts

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“…Better marketing and closer cooperation among transport providers and planners with tourism attractions and accommodation providers were identified [31]. Positive festival impacts are influenced by emotional solidarity and community attachment [32].…”

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Managing Sustainable Urban Tourism Development: The Case of Ljubljana

2020

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The interest in sustainable urban development and sustainable tourism development is growing. Yet, according to our knowledge, only a limited number of studies combining those two areas exist, and the holistic model for sustainable urban tourism development has not been introduced. Our study aims to integrate sustainable urban development scientific area with sustainable tourism development scientific area and to integrate and advance the existing models for sustainable urban tourism development. As a method for analyzing the results of 322 interviews, we used content analysis. Based on the analyzed data, the conceptual sustainable urban tourism model is proposed and applied to the case of Ljubljana. The results show that Ljubljana needs more emphasis on sustainable urban tourism development by considering different dimensions of sustainability, stakeholders, as well as types of tourism. Specifically, respondents took into consideration social, environmental, as well as economic sustainability. The most often mentioned stakeholders were local communities and companies; meanwhile, according to their opinion, Ljubljana has the greatest potential in cultural, green, and sports tourism. Finally, the study integrates sustainable urban development and sustainable tourism development scientific areas by providing a conceptual model and taking into consideration the need for proper management, ranging from planning to education and policy-making.

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“…Wan and Chan () explored the factors affecting the level of tourist satisfaction and loyalty with reference to a food festival. Li and Wan () examined resident attitudes and support for festival development in Macau, and Wu, Wong, and Cheng () studied tourist behavioural intentions in the context of a food festival. Another extended study was conducted on the same festival to analyse quality, emotions, image, satisfaction, and loyalty (Wong et al, ).…”

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“…Traditional cultural heritage festivals are increasingly promoted as attractions and as contributors to the development of cultural tourism and of place (Copley & Robson, ; Felsenstein & Fleischer, ). Past studies on local festivals in Macau have been confined to a small number of topics, such as food festivals and customs and beliefs (Vong & Lam, ), factors affecting tourist satisfaction with and loyalty towards food festivals (Wan & Chan, ), and resident attitudes and support for festival development (Li & Wan, ). Studies on traditional festivals have been scarce.…”

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Festivalscapes and the visitor experience: An application of the Stimulus Organism Response approach

Chen

King

Suntikul

2019

Journal of Tourism Research

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This paper presents a framework that articulates the complete tourist experience with reference to a traditional local event in Macau—A‐Ma Festival. The Stimulus Organism Response (S‐O‐R) framework is deployed to depict the festival experience as a continuous and multistage process. The festivalscape concept provides an elaboration of the festival construct by considering how attendees form enduring attitudes. The authors use the concept as a medium for conveying key festival messages and values from the attendee perspective. They identified a high incidence of spontaneous involvement in the festival. Festival attendance provided respondents with a considerable enhancement of the destination experience.

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Residents’ support for festivals: integration of emotional solidarity

Cited by 101 publications

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Seasonal Tourism Demand in Lebanese Ski Resorts

Seasonal Tourism Demand in Lebanese Ski Resorts

Managing Sustainable Urban Tourism Development: The Case of Ljubljana

Festivalscapes and the visitor experience: An application of the Stimulus Organism Response approach

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