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ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH
Volume 63, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2016.12.007
Keywords
Authenticity; Music festivals; Co-creation; Socio-spatial; Aura
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- ESRC [RES-061-25-0129]
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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. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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