The placeness of tourist destinations is the basis of tourism development, whereas tourism development can reflect, enrich, change or reproduce the placeness. Tourism performing art is a performance activity that represents mainly the culture and geography of tourist destinations, and brings...

The relentlessly growing relationship between tourism and creativity contributes to the search for alternatives to the development of the creative economy. The combination of concepts such as creativity and tourism has become a common diversification strategy, especially in the field of cultural...

Purpose - This paper aims to evaluate the feasibility of utilizing the performing arts as one element in changing the destination image of the Macau special administrative region from that of the Las Vegas of the East to a "World Centre of Tourism and Leisure". The context is of particular interest ...

With the rapid growth of the middle class in emerging economies, more consumers are patronising commercial arts performances as their leisure choices. As a unique cultural element of a destination, performing arts continue to attract both local and tourist audiences' attention and contribute to...

This report provides a general picture of the global music tourism industry. It discusses the main genres of music, music festivals, music destinations, tour operators offering music-based tours and three case studies. International music tourism trips represent around 7.2 million trips annually....

Purpose: Researchers have become aware of the importance of festivals as a phenomenon worthy of studying, but in-depth studies of cultural festivals are lacking. The purpose of this study is to describe the attributes of cultural festivals, specifically theatre festivals and examine the motivations ...

Purpose - This study aims to explore the success factors of tourism performing arts (TPA) programs by analyzing a large data set of online reviews. Design/methodology/approach - A total of 195,230 reviews from Ctrip.com were collected and preprocessed. A deep learning method was leveraged to...

The Edinburgh "Festival" positions the city via creativity. Its success in attracting audiences for the performing arts contrasts with the limited extent it appears to modify the general image of Scotland among its tourists. Three styles of consumption are considered: Edinburgh as a...

Abundant literature has examined resident reactions to tourism by their perceptions of perceived impacts, overlooking individual emotional responses that might be elicited by psychological causes toward specific types of tourism. This paper employs cognitive appraisal theory to explore the...

Film festivals have become sociocultural events that attract various groups, whether from the film industry, moviegoers or fans of famous actors, actresses or film directors. They concentrate a large number of individuals, thus becoming a tourist attraction for destinations. The objective of this...