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Event Tourism in Romania – A Tourist Profile [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2008 The aim of this article is to offer a brief image on Romanian event tourism having as a reference point two case studies – the “Medieval Sighişoara” Art Festival and Stufstock festival (Vama Veche).
Anca Tudoricu
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As sustainability pressures intensify across the global event and tourism industries, this study examines how environmental identity and social openness shape visitors' willingness to pay more for sustainable festivals and whether attitudes toward specific sustainability practices mediate these relationships.
László Kökény +3 more
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Ekonomski Vjesnik, 2020 There are various motives for visiting a festival or an event. Motivations explain why people behave in a certain way and are therefore of particular interest in the context of meeting consumer expectations and needs.
Dina Lončarić +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Colorado's geologic, pedologic, topographic, hydrological, and climatic contrasts create strong but under‐synthesized opportunities for sustainable agritourism. This review investigates how geodiversity, and the broader environmental heterogeneity within which it operates, can be used to diversify farm income, strengthen place‐based visitor ...
Bonface O. Manono
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Rural Intangible Cultural Heritage Governance: Discursive Alignment for Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intangible cultural heritage governance is increasingly relevant to sustainable rural development, yet the conditions under which public, private and residents align priorities, responsibilities and legitimacy remain underexplored. This study examines how these actors conceptualise, prioritise and discursively legitimise it in Bergamo (Italy).
Berta Tubillejas‐Andrés +3 more
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Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011 This essay aims to contribute to current anthropological debate on space and place, analysing in two instances of festival performance how, on the one hand the politics of appropriation of space contributes to the configuration of power relations, and ...
Maria J. C. Krom
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper draws on over five decades of experience in educating and developing systems thinking practitioners at the Open University (OU) UK to explore the opportunities and challenges in the professionalisation of systems thinking in practice (STiP).
Ray Ison
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A Festival of Chariots: How Music and the Arts Take the Hindu Temple Experience to the Streets
ReligionsAmong the most prominent Hindu festivals is the Rath Yatra, or Festival of Chariots, which is celebrated by parading three brightly decorated chariots containing statues of the deities Jagganath, Subhadra, and Balaram through the streets of a city on ...
Sara Black Brown
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Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.The qualitative literature criticizing REBs suggests that researchers should develop an approach to research ethics that does justice to their daily practice of fieldwork. In this article, I contribute to this exploration by presenting three cases of negotiating research ethics while researching transgressive social worlds.
Thaddeus Müller
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Blazing Grace: The Gifted Culture of Burning Man
NANO, 2017 The thirty-year experiment, Burning Man, is mounted annually in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Today attracting 70,000 participants and otherwise known as Black Rock City, Burning Man is typically identified as an arts-based “gift culture,” with gifting ...
Graham St John
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