Thirsting for vampire tourism: Developing pop culture destinations

Larson, Mia; Lundberg, Christine; Lexhagen, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.jdmm.2013.03.004

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“…The cities will have to manage it in one way or another. Concerning mature destinations such as Amsterdam, it is particularly important to stimulate the tourist segment who come for mass cultural products to experience the core values of the destination [94].…”

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From Landscape to Mindscape: Spatial Narration of Touristic Amsterdam

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Abstract:The cultural attributes of architecture in touristic cities are vital to city image building, city branding, and rebranding, as well as generating more economic profits for sustainable urban development, and protecting cultural sustainability. However, many studies on this theme focus on the singularity of architecture referring to its stylistic or morphological definitions, lacking attention to visitors' cultural experiences in the architectures. Considering the importance of personal experience involved in cultural activities as a process of spatial narration through which architecture makes sense to visitors and generates cultural values, the aim of this paper is to reveal the respective correlations between different types of architecture regarding the cultural experience it imparts and the non-positive dimensions of the city image. This research builds a categorization system of three cultural types of architecture, and designs a questionnaire to collect tourists' personal opinions concerning architectures and the city image of Amsterdam's waterfront in order to calculate such correlations statistically. The results associate architectures with 'tourism-oriented', 'present/process-based', and 'mass' cultural types with non-positive dimensions of city image, which leads to further discussions of 'authenticity', 'identity', and 'mass culture', suggesting the significance of urban cultural policies and local communities in terms of city rebranding.

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From Landscape to Mindscape: Spatial Narration of Touristic Amsterdam

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“…Fourth, translating celebrity and place attachments into behavioral intentions requires effort such as establishing celebrity websites that deliver e-mail notifications for events and celebrity family parties, providing fans with assorted information. Finally, the popular culture phenomenon is used in destination brand-building processes (Larson et al, 2013). Celebrity attachment plays a vital role in the destination decision-making process.…”

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Celebrity Attachment and Behavioral Intentions: The Mediating Role of Place Attachment

Wong

Lai

2013

Int. J. Tourism Res.

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Film‐induced tourism has recently gained increased attention in academic research. Although previous literature has identified the existence of consumer–celebrity attachment, scant empirical studies have examined whether celebrity attachment influences behavioral intentions in a film tourism context. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between celebrity attachment and behavioral intentions as well as to clarify the role of place attachment. Survey data from 312 tourists in Taiwan indicate that celebrity attachment is positively related to behavioral intentions. Moreover, place attachment partially mediates the relationship between celebrity attachment and behavioral intentions. Implications of these findings for managing marketing strategies as well as future research directions are subsequently discussed. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…Film-induced tourism can be seen as a dimension of pop culture tourism (Gyimóthy, Lundberg, Lindström, Lexhagen & Larson, 2015;Larson, Lundberg & Lexhagen, 2013) and, in the cases where a film induces visitation to a heritage site, it can also be regarded as a form of heritage tourism (Hoppen, Brown & Fyall, 2014;MartinJones, 2014). This is mainly because popular media, together with the postmodern lifestyle and the increased use of the internet, new technologies and a variety of 9 different media types, makes the past and heritage omnipresent and widely accessible for people's consumption (Butler 2011;Månsson, 2011).…”

Section: Film-induced Tourism and Heritage Visitor Attractions (Hvas)mentioning

confidence: 99%