Factors influencing cultural event tourism in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa

Boucher, Sasha; Cullen, Margaret; Calitz, André P.

doi:10.1080/14766825.2017.1420070

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“…This fact indirectly corresponds with knowledge from abroad, e.g. Boucher et al (2018) claim that cultural events and festivals represent around 20% of the total tourism market, according to Baez-Montenegro & Devesa-Fernandez (2017), the number of different cultural events and festivals has increased significantly in recent years. This fact demonstrates the importance of cultural events in the development of tourism in tourist destinations in the Czech Republic and should not escape the attention of tourism policymakers at all levels and managers of tourism development in destinations that have a significant cultural heritage.…”

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“…Cultural events are an important part of event tourism and can suitably complement the product range of small businesses in rural tourism and agritourism (Mura & Kljucnikov, 2018). Cultural events currently account for 1/5 of the total tourism market in the world; organizing these events brings various social, economic and environmental benefits for countries and their citizens (Boucher et al, 2018). Cultural events include various activities related to visiting festivals, local celebrations, architecture, rituals and other interesting events at the destination places (Hernandez-Mogollon et al, 2018;Christou et al, 2018); they may consist of rituals, performances, ceremonies, festivals and celebrations to present socio-cultural habits (Oklobdzija, 2015).…”

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“…Such tourism products can also include organized events that can be used by destinations to attract visitors, develop tourism, revitalize various activities and places (Hernandez-Mogollon et al, 2018). In the world, unlike the Czech Republic, more attention is paid to organized events, as event tourism is a rapidly developing part of tourism that allows countries to profit from growth in income and employment in tourism, to build their competitive advantages (Boucher et al, 2018;Christou et al, 2018;Baez-Montenegro & Devesa-Fernandez, 2017), create destination image and attract foreign investment and visitor attention (Baez-Montenegro & Devesa-Fernandez, 2017;Duran & Hamarat, 2014). In addition to image creation, event tourism reduces crime and poverty and makes people prouder of their country (Boucher et al, 2018).…”

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“…In the world, unlike the Czech Republic, more attention is paid to organized events, as event tourism is a rapidly developing part of tourism that allows countries to profit from growth in income and employment in tourism, to build their competitive advantages (Boucher et al, 2018;Christou et al, 2018;Baez-Montenegro & Devesa-Fernandez, 2017), create destination image and attract foreign investment and visitor attention (Baez-Montenegro & Devesa-Fernandez, 2017;Duran & Hamarat, 2014). In addition to image creation, event tourism reduces crime and poverty and makes people prouder of their country (Boucher et al, 2018). As a result of event tourism, marketing activities aimed at promoting destinations are also improving (Hernandez-Mogollon et al, 2018;Duran & Hamarat, 2014).…”

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“…As a result of event tourism, marketing activities aimed at promoting destinations are also improving (Hernandez-Mogollon et al, 2018;Duran & Hamarat, 2014). Event tourism, like other tourism activities, evokes various socio-cultural (Duran & Hamarat, 2014), economic (Yolal et al, 2012;Duran & Hamarat, 2014;Valek, 2018) and environmental effects on destinations (Boucher et al, 2018).…”

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Factors of Demand for Cultural Events in Tourism: the Case of the Czech Republic

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The main purpose of the research is to examine selected demand factors for cultural events in tourism in the Czech Republic. Eight hypotheses are formulated. The primary research was carried out in the form of a questionnaire. There were 1666 respondents interviewed in various tourist destinations in the Czech Republic. While testing the hypotheses the Friedman test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, the Mann-Whitney U test, and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient are used. We confirm the hypotheses that the residents of the Czech Republic think that cultural events are organized more frequently than sports events, shopping events (e.g. markets, trades), exhibitions and fairs, and religious events in the Czech Republic, the motives for participation in cultural events are mainly experience and entertainment, women more often participate in cultural events than men, men more often attend sports events than women, and people take the greatest pleasure to participate in cultural events and not in the other events (sports events, shopping events, exhibitions and fairs, and religious events). We reject the hypotheses that summer is the best season for organizing events, that families are more likely to participate in cultural events than single people or people with friends, and that advertising in mass media has the greatest influence on the decision to visit cultural events. The benefit of the paper is to focus the research on a new area of tourism development in the Czech Republic – organizing events at tourist destinations and trying to reveal the impact of various factors on demand for cultural events. Organization of events in tourism is a relatively large area, therefore, it opens further possibilities of exploring this issue in terms of the organized events' impact on tourist destinations, the offering of organized events, managing organized events. Keywords: cultural events, exhibitions, fairs, Friedman test, Mann-Whitney U test, Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, shopping events, sports events, Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

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