IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/rgscpp/v11y2019i3p509-524.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Cultural tourism and rural entrepreneurship: A case study of a Scandinavian literary festival

Author

Listed:
  • David W. Marcouiller
  • Knut Ingar Westeren

Abstract

Tourism demand within peripheral regions reflects visitor motivations to seek experiences constrained by attributes that involve the abilities of these visitors. Often, the basis of tourism supply is driven by accessible publicly‐owned common‐pool resources that exist as regional economic assets yet are unpriced in the marketplace. Free‐riding prevails as rent‐seeking firms utilize non‐marketed natural and cultural assets in their production practices. The work reported here develops concepts that illustrate keys to successful cultural tourism entrepreneurship using a case study of a festival on the Norwegian coast that features the treasured literary works of Olav Duun. Results suggest that public‐private partnerships can be used to stimulate entrepreneurial activity. Further, success is a function of managerial expertise in attaining visitor experience that falls within the flow channel. La demanda turística dentro de las regiones periféricas refleja las motivaciones de los visitantes que buscan experiencias limitadas por atributos que incluyen las habilidades de estos visitantes. A menudo, la base de la oferta turística está impulsada por recursos públicos comunales accesibles que existen como activos económicos regionales y que, sin embargo, no tienen precio en el mercado. El uso gratuito prevalece a medida que las empresas que buscan obtener beneficios utilizan bienes naturales y culturales no comercializados en sus prácticas de producción. El trabajo que se presenta aquí desarrolla conceptos que ilustran las claves para el éxito del emprendimiento en el turismo cultural mediante un estudio de caso de un festival en la costa noruega que celebra las valiosas obras literarias de Olav Duun. Los resultados sugieren que las asociaciones público‐privadas se pueden utilizar para estimular la actividad empresarial. Además, el éxito depende de la experiencia de los gerentes para lograr una experiencia de los visitantes que esté dentro del canal de flujo. 周辺地域内の観光需要は、訪れる旅行者の自らの能力を含む属性に制限される、経験を求める動機を反映している。多くの場合、観光業における供給の基礎は、まだ市場では価格がつけられていない、地域の経済的資産として存在するアクセス可能な公共の共有資源により決定される。レントシーキングを行う企業が、市場のものではない自然資源および文化資源を商品として利用するのに伴って、フリーライドも横行する。本稿では、Olav Duunの有名な文学作品をフィーチュアしたノルウェーの海岸線のフェスティバルを例にしたケーススタディを行い、文化的観光業のアントレプレナーシップの成功の要因を例証する概念を詳述する。結果から、アントレプレナーの活動を促進するには官民パートナーシップが有用であることが示唆される。さらに、成功は、フローチャネルの範囲内に入る旅行者の経験を獲得するための経営の専門知識の機能である。

Suggested Citation

  • David W. Marcouiller & Knut Ingar Westeren, 2019. "Cultural tourism and rural entrepreneurship: A case study of a Scandinavian literary festival," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 11(3), pages 509-524, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:11:y:2019:i:3:p:509-524
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12200
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12200
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/rsp3.12200?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Antić Aleksandar & Vujko Aleksandra & Tomić Nemanja, 2020. "Examining and Forecasting Tourist Arrivals and Speleotourism Development in Resava Cave (Eastern Serbia)," European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation, Sciendo, vol. 10(2), pages 146-153, December.
    2. Romero-Castro, N. & López-Cabarcos, M.A. & Piñeiro-Chousa, J., 2023. "Finance, technology, and values: A configurational approach to the analysis of rural entrepreneurship," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 190(C).

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:11:y:2019:i:3:p:509-524. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1757-7802 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.