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Designing and offering legend-based experiences: Perspectives of Santa Claus in the Joulupukin Pajakylä

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  • Christou, Prokopis A.
  • Pericleous, Katerina
  • Komppula, Raija

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Humans, more than ever before, pursue connections with legends and legendary figures, not least at intentionally designed settings. This quest has endured for millennia as a reflection of legendary narratives that inform the origins, cosmologies, and festivities of people. This study, grounded in an environmental psychology theoretical lens, attempts to reveal what constitutes a legend-based experience. The study analyses visitors' experiences at Lapland's legend-based Joulupukin Pajakylä. The findings deliver understandings of how people interact with a real person acting as a legendary figure and being located amidst the legend and reality environment in a legendary informed setting. The study contributes to the interdisciplinary socio-psychology, business, design, art/folkloric and tourism discourse, relating to the legend-place-visitor triad.

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  • Christou, Prokopis A. & Pericleous, Katerina & Komppula, Raija, 2023. "Designing and offering legend-based experiences: Perspectives of Santa Claus in the Joulupukin Pajakylä," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 98(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:98:y:2023:i:c:s0160738322001700
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2022.103519
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