Co-creating communities: Fandoms in tourism spaces
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posted on 2021-02-12, 08:44 authored by Ina ReichenbergerIna Reichenberger, Karen SmithKaren Smith© The Author(s) 2019. Fandoms as expressions of popular culture are characterized by common interests and a sense of belonging and community. Creating and participating in communities is an inherent part of fandom, with tourism providing spaces for this community building to occur face to face. Overlaps between tourism and fandoms have been identified in popular culture (e.g. film tourism contexts); previous research, however, is characterized by disciplinary fragmentation and ambiguous transferability. This article introduces a conceptual framework of fan-based community co-creation, taking into account different intensities of fan involvement as well as factors that contribute to a psychologically perceived sense of community. The framework’s applicability to on-site tourism activities and fan-based events is illustrated, and recommendations for its empirical verification are provided.
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Reichenberger, I. & Smith, K. A. (2020). Co-creating communities: Fandoms in tourism spaces. Tourist Studies, 20(2), 166-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797619874504Publisher DOI
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Tourist StudiesVolume
20Issue
2Publication date
2020-06-01Pagination
166-181Publisher
SAGE PublicationsPublication status
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2019-09-12ISSN
1468-7976eISSN
1741-3206Article number
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