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Holy Week is one of the most important traditional celebrations in many parts of the world. It has a deep-rooted cultural and social tradition, yet also embraces a tourist dimension, which ultimately impacts on the economy of the places where it is held. The present work seeks to explore the impact of Holy Week on the city of Palencia (Spain). To do this, an economic impact study based on a description and evaluation of three types of effect, direct, indirect and induced, is carried out. Results show that this event generated a total of €2.258 million, of which 82% remained in the economy of the city itself, with the hotel and restaurant sectors benefitting the most. This traditional celebration thus contributes to creating revenue and employment, to maintaining traditional industries, to preserving cultural heritage and to enhancing the area’s image and projection.

This work, using previous researches of socio-demographic influences upon tourist market, studies habits and behavior of tourists (visitors) on tourist event Haymaking on Rajac mountain, as well as the use of advertising means for the purposes of gaining new information. The poll was conducted among 352 people selected by chance whereas the data analysis was carried out according to gender and aging structure. The aim of this research is to determine if there is a significant difference in the number or motives of traveling, choice of transport means, the amount of funds intended for staying and the way of spending money, as well as in using different means of tourist propaganda.

The event "Days of Plum - My Plum" at Blace has been one of 42 events dedicated to fruits and vegetables and one of three events dedicated to plum in Serbia. It has been held for nine consecutive years in the town situated in the wide Toplica valley at the foot of Jastrebac, where in a relatively favourable climate conditions there are good conditions for development of plum, so it has become a traditional event. This paper analyzes the results of a survey conducted during the last event, August 2011. The survey is used as methodical procedure because in relatively short time period a relatively large amount of information and data has been obtained. The survey includes 304 randomly selected respondents of different gender, age and educational structures. It was performed to examine the tourism market, attitudes and behaviour of visitors, as well as tourism promotion. In addition to the survey, the tourist valorisation of events is done in which the elements of geographic and economic groups of criteria are analyzed in order to investigate the tourism potential in terms of development of tourism as an economic sector that can contribute to the development of Blace as an underdeveloped area. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 47007]

Assessing the revenue generation and other economic influences of a one-time megaevent raises unique measurement problems. This is especially true when the event is a “cultural” tourist activity held in a place where many “casual” tourists flock. This article describes this delineation process and presents the basis for encouragement of cultural tourist events.

This article describes a study undertaken to estimate the economic impact on the state of Rhode Island of the Tall Ships '76 Celebration, a short-term tourist-attracting event. The research method involved identifying distinct segments of the participating population, which accounted for major sources of expenditures induced by the event. Six expenditure segments were identified: (1) Tall Ships '76 sponsor, (2) visiting public, (3) ships' personnel, (4) visiting ships, (5) crew-hosting families, and (6) miscellaneous groups. In addition to providing estimates of economic impact, the study generated a number of descriptive measures of the event which served to evaluate pre-event planning estimates. Demographic and other measures of visitors also enabled tourist profiles to be constructed, which were useful for planning future events and comparing to profiles derived from other events.

PurposeThis study aims to analyze the contribution of tourist event and satisfaction with tourism events as a product of regional tourism competitiveness, as well as evaluate factors of competitiveness.Design/methodology/approachThe research followed a quantitative methodology by conducting a questionnaire on the four largest tourist events in Madeira (Carnival, Flower Festival, Atlantic Festival and Wine Festival), an insular island located in Portugal.FindingsThe sample consisted of 2,262 tourists surveyed during the year 2017 and structural equation models were used as the statistical method. Results showed that satisfaction is reflected in the client's loyalty to the choice of a tourist destination and also contributes directly and indirectly to the regional tourist competitiveness.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the valorization of local and regional events, perceived by the level of satisfaction and loyalty of tourists, as products of regional competitiveness of a tourist destination.

In this study, a model for measuring impacts of a tourist event from sustainability perspectives and in a common monetary metric is developed. The aim is to achieve commensurability. The proposed model is tested on a three-day music festival and the results demonstrate a possibility to produce a sustainability impact analysis in a uniform metric. Measured in monetary terms, socio-cultural impacts carry weight just as economic impacts do whereas environmental impacts have little importance for the total assessment. This illustrates how the low market value of emission rights make environmental concerns negligible from an economic perspective. Finally, issues related to scope of the assessment, commensurability and opportunity cost are discussed and possibilities for future studies are suggested.

The study of tourism has made authenticity a central issue. Based on the case of the Strasbourg Christmas Market, a successful annual tourist event, this research combines qualitative and quantitative data to analyze how the perception of authenticity is constructed and how authenticity can explain behavior. The dimensions of authenticity of a tourist site (Camus, 2010), namely originality, in the sense that the market is seen as ‘an original’, and a lack of artificial components, clearly explain differences in visiting frequency in the case of the Strasbourg Christmas Market. In addition, based on our data, we assess the financial value of authenticity and show that authenticity, a concept whose value is sometimes intensely questioned, can indeed be operationalized.

In this paper we studied the habits and behaviour of visitors of EXIT tourist event in Novi Sad. The research was conducted on a sample of 189 randomly selected respondents from abroad. The aim was to determine whether there is a difference in the motives of foreign tourists coming to EXIT, a selection of vehicles, as well as the use of various means of tourist propaganda and the structure of expenditure of funds at foreign visitors. EXIT festival, Novi Sad has been selected for the survey because of growing brand of the festival in the total tourist offer of Serbia, specific groups of visitors, the number of foreign tourists, the links with the locality of maintaining.

Recent critiques of the concept of authenticity in tourism studies have had the unfortunate effect of silencing claims and counter-claims as to the authenticity of tourist performances amongst host communities, and have tended to focus purely on the effects of authenticity as a device for temporally distancing the Other. Rather than simply being an obsession of Western observers however, understanding competing claims as to the authenticity of these performances is of central importance to the understanding of the wider social context and divisions within which tourism is practiced. This argument is illustrated ethnographically with regard to behind the scenes debates surrounding a tourist event in Papua New Guinea.

The Stock Camp is a regular attraction at the National Folk Festival (NFF), a premier annual tourist event in Canberra, Australia. It relies heavily on the “authenticity” of its Australian food, bush entertainment, and “authentically Australian” volunteers for ongoing popularity. Using an auto-ethnographic approach (Saukko, 2002), this paper explores the extent to which new Stock Camp volunteers are prepared to accept the social positioning (Harre & van Langenhove, 1991, 1999) imposed on them by established Stock Camp volunteers. Findings from this study suggest that the social positioning of new Stock Camp volunteers imposes a strictly prescribed “authentic” Australian collective social identity, a gendered division of roles, and hierarchical power structures that make it difficult for new volunteers to accept the social positions imposed by established volun; teers. Inflexible positioning may be a barrier to further volunteering commitment. Auto-ethnography is shown to be a valuable research me...

The national Folk Festival (NFF) is a premier annual tourist event in Canberra, Australia. The NFF management team of six paid and six volunteer workers relies on over 1400 volunteers to provide the services required at the NFF. Many of these are regular volunteers who combine volunteering at the NFF with a vacation. Using an interpretive research perspective and a process of narrative inquiry, this study explores the motivational factors of a group of solo female ‘grey nomads’ who are regular volunteers at the NFF and also members of the solo grey nomads group. Data was obtained from loosely structured in‐depth interviews, overt personal observation during two NFF festivals, and content analysis of the Solo Grey Nomads online forum. The data indicated that there are a number of key themes related to motivational factors among this group of volunteers that apply both to their membership of the solo grey nomads group and to volunteering at the NFF. These were the social benefits provided by the ca...

Although the literature on experience as such, as well as various concepts pertaining to specific experiences (such as for example landscape experiences or tourist experiences is quite large, this article maintains that some of these conceptions are too ambiguous. Therefore this paper presents a threefold idea of the phenomenon of the tourist experience. Based on a review of tourism literature and general psychological literature it is argued that experiences are influenced by expectancies and events and that they remain or are constructed in the individuals' memory, forming the basis for new preferences and expectancies. Such a cognitive approach to the concept of experience highlights the distinction between the tourist event and its precursors and effects. At the same time this approach highlights the importance of the experiencing subject in constructing a meaningful concept of tourist experiences.

Juneteenth originated in Texas as an African-American celebration of the end of slavery. As participation and interest has increased, this celebration has taken on broader functions, serving as homecoming and community celebrations. It is argued in this article that Juneteenth also functions as a culinary tourist event, with barbecue being the major draw. Barbecue has been attributed to African-American slave cuisine and features prominently in Juneteenth celebrations. Research was conducted in Manhattan, Kansas in 2004 and 2005. Participant observation, interviews, and archival/textual analysis were used to demonstrate the importance of barbecue as a regional food tourism attraction.

The purpose of this study was to determine residents' perceived social costs and benefits toward an international tourist event, and their willingness to financially support the development of a permanent event facility. A telephone survey using a random sample (n = 600) of Albuquerque residents was conducted two weeks after the 1993 Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (AIBF). The 23rd Annual AIBF was the largest hot-air balloon event in the world, with over 900 pilots competing in various races and contests. The nine-day event attracted over 1.6 million spectators to a 70-acre site leased to organizers by city government. Few social costs were experienced by residents, while a majority of residents experienced multiple social benefits from the event. Although residents' attitudes toward the event were mostly positive, few residents were likely to finance a stadium development proposal through property tax increases. Before taxpayer approval for permanent event facility construction is...