Social media usage relative to music festivals has given rise to the Social Music Festival Brandscape (SMFB)—an ecosystem of festival experiences and social conversations where music festival brand value is co-created ...

This study examines the under-investigated cultural outcomes of small-scale festivals. Specifically, it uses Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to explore the cultural outcomes of festival participation in rural ...

Local festivals may leverage local specialties and various historical, cultural, and artistic resources throughout their respective regions to attract tourists, inducing positive economic impacts. In this study, this paper ...

Religious tourism plays an important part in the history of tourism development. People visit religious sites with different motivations. Previous studies have examined different experiences of tourists from pilgrims to ...

At present, few studies have focused on the antecedents and consequences of music festival visitors’ flow experience. Based on the cognitive appraisal theory, this study explores five antecedents of music festival ...

contributing to a destination's competitiveness. Building on the motivation, opportunity, ability (MOA) theory and elaboration likelihood model (ELM), the current study investigates how participants' motivation, time pressure ...

Food festivals appeal to a broad range of potential attendees. However, for food festival attendees to engage in such a food adventure to arouse high levels of satisfaction in an environment different from their home, ...

This research extends our knowledge of liminality through investigating how the liminal experiences of festival-goers are constructed in a Chinese music festival context. The research employs a multi-site data collection ...

Tourism experiences, memories thereof, and their consequences tend to be analysed separately, often focusing on the individual's perspective. This paper introduces Collins' (2004) interaction ritual (IR) theory to develop ...