Socio-spatial authenticity at co-created music festivals

Szmigin, Isabelle; Bengry‐Howell, Andrew; Morey, Yvette; Griffin, Christine; Riley, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2016.12.007

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“…By programming potentially overshadowing international acts, privileging visiting audiences and allowing the private sector to enter the ownership, festivals are likely to risk undermining this relationship. In this regard, our study supports the idea that cultural tourism itself can act as a barrier to commodification: It is likely to enable host communities to capitalize on tourists' desire for some form of "authentic" experience that will allow them to connect with the place and culture of their destination (for some recent reflections on authenticity, see [51,52]).…”

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Privatization of a Tourism Event: Do Attendees Perceive it as a Risky Cultural Lottery?

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Individuals might have different views about the benefits and the costs of privatizing a cultural event. On the one hand, privatization may increase the quality of the event due to expanding investments. On the other hand, it may lead to the dissipation of important cultural and traditional connotations. Since benefits and costs are uncertain, we frame an individual's choice regarding privatization as a lottery choice, where risk aversion and other individual traits play a role. We empirically investigate attendees' preferences for privatizing a mass gathering festival in Italy. The festival is attended by almost 100,000 tourists each year. Over a three-year period, we collected a large dataset of survey questions. We find that willingness to accept privatization is decreasing in tourists' risk aversion, while it is increasing in their sensitivity to the festival's quality. Cultural tourists perceive a higher risk of commodification in the case of privatization. Authenticity-seeking tourists act as gatekeepers of the genuine roots of local traditions. They demand original values, ultimately contributing to the festival's cultural sustainability. The purpose of attracting visitors is in fact commonly assumed to alter local culture, resulting in a staged authenticity; and privatization of cultural goods is often associated with commodification.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 75%

Privatization of a Tourism Event: Do Attendees Perceive it as a Risky Cultural Lottery?

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“…Szmigin et al 2017 [7] Something is declared to be "original, genuine, or real, rather than a copy, fake, or spurious".…”

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“…Heritage sporting events are authentic interactive systems including environment, people, and management of tourism destinations. This authentic system is an exceptional way to trigger both active and passive sport tourism at the same time [7,8]. In this system, heritage sporting events are concrete expressions of cultural identity and promoters of non-sport heritage, therefore they could genuinely and vividly show traditional culture and resident lifestyles and values [9].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, the contradiction between "authenticity" and "commodification" of the development of heritage sporting events is an inescapable dilemma. Not all commercialized heritage sporting events are fictitious or reduce event-goers' authentic experiences, but the overemphasis of commodification might have a negative influence on event authenticity [7,13]. Despite the growing interest in event authenticity in the tourism theoretical research field, studies on the formation process of event authenticity are still scarce, which makes it hard for various stakeholders of heritage sporting events to target themselves [14].…”

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A Tourist-Based Model of Authenticity of Heritage Sporting Events: The Case of Naadam

Tao

Wen

2018

Sustainability

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As one of the important forms of intangible cultural heritage, heritage sporting events are becoming a potential catalyst of tourism. Commodification of heritage sporting events becomes popular for local authorities to boost economic development and express cultural authenticity, given that authenticity creates genuine performances and moving tourism experiences. However, commodification of heritage is a double-edged sword. It is a dilemma to commercialize a heritage sporting event while keeping its authenticity. Therefore, this study proposes a tourist-based model of authenticity to solve this problem, in which the authenticity of heritage sporting events incorporates “cool” and “hot” factors. The model examines these factors and their impact on tourist satisfaction and loyalty using Naadam as the example. Seven hundred questionnaires were distributed at six sites located from east to west of the Inner Mongolia, China. Factor analysis shows there are two factors in cool and hot authenticity, respectively. Both factors of cool authenticity have direct impacts on hot authenticity, satisfaction, and loyalty. Though both intrapersonal and interpersonal factors of hot authenticity have direct positive impacts on tourist satisfaction, only the former affects loyalty directly. The results show the authenticity of event culture is the most important and effective authentic factor, while authentic auxiliary products—the direct expression of commodification—is indispensable for authenticity. This study is helpful for maintaining authenticity and cultural sustainability of heritage sporting events as a destination tourism attraction, given the fact that commodification and the marketing of heritage sporting events has become popular for heritage destination development.

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“…Xue, Kerstetter, Hunt, (2017), suggest that material benefits which stem from the touristic development in rural areas may have effect on the change of the rural-population identity. Szmigin et al, (2017) point out that during the last few years, music festivals evolved in such a manner that they became popular touristic destinations. They overtook the significant position in the world touristic-market which grew larger both in the matter of size and number, and it became dominant in the perception of specific market segments.…”

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Manifestational tourism in the function of the central Serbia rural areas' development : An example of such a manifestation 'Guča Trumpet Festival'

Ilinčić¹

2017

Zb PMF Geog inst Beograd

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Аbstract: Touristically speaking, the rural areas of Serbia are not fully researched, hence there exist viewpoints that say that by the development of manifestational tourism the touristic potential of such areas can be raised to the higher level and be better presented to the foreign touristic market. The result of the previously stated would be the increase of the touristic demand-scale, and an effect on the decrease of negative demographic processes and preventing migration of young people from rural to urban areas, as well. Touristic Manifestation "Guča Trumpet Festival" with over 55 years of tradition presents one of the most prominent domestic brands recognizable in the world touristic market. Methodological contribution of the paper consists of displaying the terrainresearch results carried out in 2015 and an overview of the interdependence of the main motives that attract foreign visitors to this manifestation and the local-people's demographic characteristics, with an intention of pointing out the suggestion for improving the rural area developmental conditions. Data analysis was carried out in the package program for statistical analysis and the data processing (SPSS 20.00) and was based on the population registry, granted from National Statistical Service of Republic of Serbia. The gathered data have shown that the studied manifestation can play a role in the revitalization of the Dragačevo area, primarily because it is interesting to foreign visitors and generally foreign visitors are interested in longer stays if the more significant touristic offer is rendered, including the touristic values in the vicinal regions.

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Socio-spatial authenticity at co-created music festivals

Cited by 77 publications

References 27 publications

Privatization of a Tourism Event: Do Attendees Perceive it as a Risky Cultural Lottery?

Privatization of a Tourism Event: Do Attendees Perceive it as a Risky Cultural Lottery?

A Tourist-Based Model of Authenticity of Heritage Sporting Events: The Case of Naadam

Manifestational tourism in the function of the central Serbia rural areas' development : An example of such a manifestation 'Guča Trumpet Festival'

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