This article describes the history of the Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Festival between the years 1972 and 2000. It reveals a series of tensions between a need to express a cultural identity and financial constraint, between a wish for expressing independence and a subsequent...

Daguanyuan is used to assess to whether an attraction based on an eighteenth century novel (Honglou meng) is still seen as an attractive destination by Chinese visitors. The study is based on a content analysis of interviews of 36 visitors to the tourist/film site. The analysis is supported by the...

Based on research derived from observation, conversations and a survey of 740 respondents, the paper reports data on perceptions and experiences of visitors to the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an, China. A mixed-methods research approach was adopted and the analysis involved the use of textual...

This study reports the results of an examination of the effects of celebrity involvement on tourist loyalty, with destination image and place attachment as mediators. Survey data from 413 tourists in Hengdian World Studio, the most prominent film tourist destination in China, indicated that fandom...

The link between films and destination promotion has been well established. Less well examined is the role of 'film language' in the subsequent reconstruction of tourist destinations. This paper suggests that the way a film 'speaks' to its audience helps both shape tourists' imaginaries of place,...

It is of great significance for film tourism destination marketing and promotion to investigate the motivation of film tourists, which has been the focus of a lot of research. In order to know the sub-classification of film induced tourists' motivation and its formative mechanisms, and taking the...

Film tourism is a growing phenomenon worldwide. The shooting of popular films and TV series at a destination can be seen as a very efficient driver for attracting tourists. This study focuses on a Chinese film site, Grand View Garden, located in Beijing. As the existing studies focus mainly on...

The purpose of this study is to conceptualize how learning patterns differ between two modes of museum visitation: free-independent visitors (FIV) and an interpretation-guiding tour (IGT). Based on principles of experiential learning, eye tracking and personal mapping with 32 visitors to an ancient ...

The paper takes as a basic premise that an event can be frequent in performance, but remain an event special to people because tourists' ability to attend an event is limited by geography. Nonetheless such a frequent, even daily, event can enhance a tourist experience by affective as well as...

The paper examines the motives and sources of satisfaction of 286 respondents relating to the 921 Earthquake Museum in Taichung, Taiwan. In concludes that income, age and education remain statistically significant determinants of attitudes, and notes the existence of four clusters derived from...