Abstract
From the early days of hippie counter-culture, music festivals have been an important part of the British summer. Today they are commercialised offerings without the counter-cultural discourse of earlier times. Drawing on participant observation, interviews and focus groups conducted at a rock festival and a smaller boutique festival, the paper examines how their design, organisation and management are co-created with participants to produce authentic experiences. The paper contributes to research on authenticity in tourism by examining how authenticity emerges and is experienced in such co-created commercial settings. It presents the importance that the socio-spatial plays in authenticity experiences and how socio-spatial experience and engagement can also be recognised as a form of aura.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-11 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Annals of Tourism Research |
Volume | 63 |
Early online date | 7 Jan 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2017 |
Keywords
- Authenticity
- music festivals
- co-creation
- socio-spatial
- aura