...Prakash Chandra Dash; Manmath Nath Samantaray Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the composition of “tourism experience” of tourist visiting during the Nabakalebara event at Puri, India. Design/methodology/approach The paper applies data reduction using exploratory factor analysis...

... literature to find similarities and differences. Factor analysis is used to identify the motivation dimensions of attendees at the MIMF and the results are compared to those of existing music festival studies. Findings Music festival goers are shown to be primarily motivated by the core festival offering...

... in five factor groupings: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Motivation (psychology) Perceived socio‐economic impacts Factor analysis Multivariate analysis of variance Festivals and special events have increased in number and size, with various purposes including enhancing...