Touristic experience at a nomadic sporting event: Craving cultural connection, sacredness, authenticity, and nostalgia

Wong, IpKin Anthony; Ma, Junhua; Xiong, Xiling

doi:10.1016/j.jhtm.2020.05.003

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“…Olympic Games, NCAA Tournament and the Carnival of Brazil) are far more important than mere activities. They are traditions, rituals and national symbols that possess socio-cultural and emotional significance to people and communities across nations and territories (Wong et al, 2020). As our findings reveal, spectators can be fanatic about specific events.…”

Section: Practical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 61%

“…Olympic Games, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament and the Carnival of Brazil) are far more than mere activities. They are traditions, rituals and national symbols (Chalip et al, 1998;Cooper and Alderman, 2020) that possess socio-cultural and emotional significance to people and communities across nations and territories (Wong et al, 2020).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Experiences sought by attendees are gaining traction in this experience economy (Derom and Taks, 2011;Wood, 2020). MacAloon's theory of spectacle (1984) views events as spectacles that are grand, dramatic and exciting, accentuating that people indulge in modern-day events that embody ritualistic properties (Allen et al, 2008;Wong et al, 2020). In fact, some of these events are critical to spectators as they imbue salient meaning to their lives.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These events are not only large in scope and popularity, but they have often evolved as hallmarks for specific communities and destinations (Boyko, 2008;Getz, 2008). They imbue meanings to spectators and participants and render socio-cultural significance (Wong et al, 2020). Closing down of large events manifests costs that are superimposed on these planned activities beyond the losses in economic figures (Parnell et al, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Triple grief cycle of cancelled events: the emotional crisis aftermath

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Lin

et al. 2021

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Purpose The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic response is not only devastating nations and economies across the globe but it is also severely disrupting the event industry, with government and health authorities forcing many events to be postponed or cancelled. The purpose of this study is to investigate the prospective attendees’ emotional responses to cancelled events. This study draws upon grief cycle theory to articulate different layers of the grief process in the event domain of inquiry. Design/methodology/approach The National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament was selected as the research context. Taking user-generated messages from Twitter, this study first performed content analysis to organize lexical patterns into categories and higher-order themes based on the grief cycle. It also performed social network analyses using UCINET to illustrate how different grief phases are inter-related. Findings Results not only point to attendees’ self-expression manifested through a continuum of denial, anger, bargaining and acceptance but they also reveal a three-layer hierarchy of grief, namely, event-related, socio-politics-related and crisis-related. The network analysis further illustrates how grief phases are tied into a complex network of grief messages. Originality/value This study advances the event literature by improving knowledge about attendees’ emotional responses to cancelled events. It increases our understanding of the grieving process in the aftermath of COVID-19. The proposed triple grief cycle helps advance the literature by showcasing how voices from prospective attendees represent three pillars of grief hierarchy. The findings also underscore the emotional crisis of the COVID-19 aftermath.

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confidence: 61%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Triple grief cycle of cancelled events: the emotional crisis aftermath

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“…Moreover, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity [34]. Some forms of tourism associated with the SDGs, such as low-carbon tourism [34][35][36], nomadic tourism [37][38][39], individual tourism with discrete individual tourist systems [40] and sustainable tourism [41,42], are used as independent variables in this study, while tourist arrivals are the dependent variable [43]. In analysing Croatian and Slovenian [43] tourism further development in the long run [44][45][46], the imperishable employees, as well as the tourism science competencies and the everlasting tourist should be considered as key elements where a shock [47] or an interruption of rain [48] or a crisis [49] should not be crucial development issues.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainable Determinants That Affect Tourist Arrival Forecasting

2021

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This study considers diversification effects and significant influences on tourist arrivals as a vital export direction. Different quantitative methods, namely a cointegrated-autoregressive model, panels, sentiment and sensitivity analysis, were used in this study. The time-series data for Croatia and Slovenia were isolated from several secondary sources. The variables examined in this approach are tourist arrivals, precipitations, sunny days, earthquakes, microbes and CO2 emissions. The study results showed that there is a severe negative effect on tourist arrivals defined by viruses. Moreover, there is a significant decisive effect of weather conditions on tourist arrivals. Nevertheless, it is necessary to move past Covid-19 pandemic discussions to yield more accurate tourism supply forecasts, while demand is already somehow low since the beginning of 2020. The primary significance is to develop a broader thinking about the impacts of CO2 emissions on the tourism escorted to official tourist websites.

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Touristic experience at a nomadic sporting event: Craving cultural connection, sacredness, authenticity, and nostalgia

Cited by 19 publications

References 58 publications

Triple grief cycle of cancelled events: the emotional crisis aftermath

Triple grief cycle of cancelled events: the emotional crisis aftermath

Sustainable Determinants That Affect Tourist Arrival Forecasting

How to Make Place Branding Content Viral in Pre and Post-Pandemic Situations Through Instagram?

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