Celebrating Asparagus: Community and the Rationally Constructed Food Festival

Lewis, George H.

doi:10.1111/j.1542-734x.1997.00073.x

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“…Among the various types of festivals, food festivals are one of the most popular (Xie, ). Food festivals are ‘festivals that purport to center on and revolve around food’ (Lewis, :1). Food festivals are major tourist attractions and motivations for travel (Park et al , ).…”

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Factors that Affect the Levels of Tourists' Satisfaction and Loyalty towards Food Festivals: a Case Study of Macau

Wan

Chan

2011

Journal of Tourism Research

119

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The present study investigates the factors that affect tourists' satisfaction towards food festivals and explores whether tourists intend to revisit and/or recommend food festivals to others. Based on personal interviews with 40 study subjects, eight factors that affect their satisfaction levels were identified: location and accessibility, food, venue facility, environment/ambiance, service, entertainment, timing and festival size. The majority of tourists were satisfied with the Macau Food Festival and intended to revisit and recommend it to others. The presented findings have practical implications for food festival organizers to further attract food tourists. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Factors that Affect the Levels of Tourists' Satisfaction and Loyalty towards Food Festivals: a Case Study of Macau

Wan

Chan

2011

Journal of Tourism Research

119

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“…Given the increasing socio‐economic significance of this vibrant component of the world's leisure industry, gaining knowledge of food festival attendees and their expenditure patterns is essential to festival researchers and destination marketers (Hu, ). Lewis () defines food festivals as “festivals that purport to center on and revolve around food” (p. 1). In Macau, a food festival is an annual event, with more than 100 stalls offering tasty morsels from Europe, Malaysia, Mainland China, Taiwan, other parts of Asia and beyond every November (Kennedy, ).…”

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An Empirical Analysis of Synthesizing the Effects of Festival Quality, Emotion, Festival Image and Festival Satisfaction on Festival Loyalty: A Case Study of Macau Food Festival

Wong

Cheng³

2014

Journal of Tourism Research

122

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This study aims to examine the interrelationships among the festival quality dimensions, festival quality, emotion, festival image, festival satisfaction and festival loyalty. Analysis of data from 454 attendees in the 12 th Macau Food Festival indicates that the proposed model fits the data. The result of this study will assist festival management in developing and implementing market-orientated service strategies to increase quality and image, and enhance the emotion and satisfaction of attendees in order to attain their loyalty toward food festivals.

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“…The managers interviewed were either owners or employees of six restaurants, three food production companies and one harvest festival, located in three different rural regions of Sweden (table 1). The restaurants ranged between 'fine dining' and 'casual style/bistro' (Smith and Hall, 2003), the companies produced cheese, beverages and berry wines, and the harvest festival was created in the 1990s as a tourist event: what Lewis (1997) has called a 'rationally constructed food festival'. Staff numbers varied according to season: the restaurants employed 5-30, the food production companies 5-80, and the harvest festival 7-10 full-time staff over the year.…”

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Local Food Cultures in the Swedish Rural Economy

2005

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A rising interest in the commercial benefits of locally and regionally connoted food culture for rural development is notable in Sweden. Local and regional food culture is used as a tool both to encourage the rural economy, but also to fulfil urban residents' dreams of an authentic rural idyll. A qualitative study of a government project involving ten rural food businesses was performed to analyse how local food culture was used as a business advantage. The managers were interviewed and their conceptions analysed using company documents, observational notes and photographs. The results revealed that the managers do use food culture to gain a competitive advantage. They produce only those products that signal perceived ‘good taste’ and those that best reflect urban customers' ideas of rurality. It is also important to satisfy their kitchen staff's demands to work with developing urban food trends, otherwise the managers risk losing skilled staff. Rural customers are of minor day‐to‐day economic value, except when using the restaurant on festive occasions. But on those occasions, rural customers demand meals prepared in an urban classical style, not the local and regional food culture they eat at home. The most advantageous local and regional food culture for rural development is therefore that which best combines the urban ideal of the countryside, authentic rural products, and the rural ideal of urban classical cuisine.

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Celebrating Asparagus: Community and the Rationally Constructed Food Festival

Cited by 32 publications

References 5 publications

Factors that Affect the Levels of Tourists' Satisfaction and Loyalty towards Food Festivals: a Case Study of Macau

Factors that Affect the Levels of Tourists' Satisfaction and Loyalty towards Food Festivals: a Case Study of Macau

An Empirical Analysis of Synthesizing the Effects of Festival Quality, Emotion, Festival Image and Festival Satisfaction on Festival Loyalty: A Case Study of Macau Food Festival

Local Food Cultures in the Swedish Rural Economy

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