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...S. Meera; A. Vinodan Purpose Thrissur Pooram, a renowned temple festival in Kerala, serves as a living laboratory for sustainability, integrating cultural heritage, economic vibrancy and environmental responsibility. This study examines how the festival navigates socio-environmental challenges...

...Dev Jani Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore local residents' perceptions of sustainability of different festivals making festival portfolio in Zanzibar. Design/methodology/approach The study used multiqualitative methods and comparative case analysis that made use of in-depth...

...Kubra Asan; Mustafa Daskin; Kerem Kaptangil Purpose Cultural festivals have started to be held face-to-face with masks and distance measures after the gradual lifting of restrictions following the COVID-19 pandemic. On the other hand, the risk of COVID-19 transmission continues. This study aimed...

...Yiping Li; Chammy Lau Purpose This study aims to investigate two festivals that are held annually in Hong Kong, to explore the essence of festival meanings – the extent to which the perceived sociocultural benefits of festivals articulate the production of a sense of place (SOP) and its respective...

...Alicia Orea-Giner; Francesc González-Reverté; Laura Fuentes-Moraleda Purpose This research explores the consequences of a health crisis provoked by a pandemic scenario on music festival impacts considered by the stakeholders involved. The purpose of this paper is to identify the perceptions from...

...Sonja Bakić; Macarena Cuenca-Amigo; Jaime Cuenca Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the jazz festival experience at the Heineken Jazzaldia Festival in San Sebastian, Spain. It focuses especially on the relationship between participants’ area of residence and their experience...

...Giulia Rossetti Purpose This paper examines the under-investigated well-being outcomes of literary festival attendance. It is an exploratory study into how a festival contributes to attendees' overall well-being. Drawing from the literature on well-being and festival studies, this paper seeks...

...Dev Jani; John R. Philemon Mwakyusa Purpose The purpose of the paper is to test the perceived economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts on the satisfaction of local residents with the Zanzibar International Film Festival. Design/methodology/approach Structured questionnaires were...

...Eric Beckman; Tianyu Pan; Miranda Kitterlin; Lisa Cain Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the motivating factors that influence repeat participation among university student volunteers at a world-renowned food festival. The direct and indirection relationship (through attitude toward...

...-aware research in events, including more in-depth explorations into gendered safety and perceptions of safety in event and festival spaces, as well as festivals and events as sites of disruption and challenge. In the final section, we set out an agenda for feminist and gender-aware research in events...

...Eric Beckman; Fang Shu; Tianyu Pan Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to examine whether enduring involvement theory plays a role in predicting craft beer and food festival visitors' experience of the festivalscape. Though craft beer and brewing is a growing area of research, there has...

...Faten Alshammari; Youn-Kyung Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether visitors’ seeking and escaping motivations influence the cognitive evaluation of a non-traditional festival in Saudi Arabia, which in turn leads to the sense of joy and subsequent word-of-mouth publicity...

... 02 01 2018 08 01 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Complexity Creativity Festival Event Creative economy Creative industries Other arguments have focused upon the narrowing interpretation of the creative...

...Hanya Pielichaty Purpose – Contemporary outdoor rock and popular music festivals offer liminoidal spaces in which event participants can experience characteristics associated with the carnivalesque. Festival goers celebrate with abandonment, excess and enjoy a break from the mundane routine...

...Christine M. Van Winkle; Kyle M. Woosnam Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between psychological sense of community (SOC) and perceived social impacts of festival events. Design/methodology/approach – SOC was measured using the four-dimensional Brief Sense...