What is it about?

Why would a festival succeed or fail? Festival attendees gave their point of view on the issue.

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Why is it important?

Three areas of particular interest were: how to nurture identity construction and personal well-being, how to enhance egalitarianism within the festival community, and how to promote the desired code of conduct without applying unnecessary rules and restrictions. If successful in these, the festival could boast of features that are not easy to replicate and that could create a competitive edge.

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Cultural festivals are an important part of the Finnish summer. How could the festival experiences be enhanced or what would ruin them?

Ms Maarit Kinnunen

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This page is a summary of: Visitor discourses on experiences: reasons for festival success and failure, International Journal of Event and Festival Management, October 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/ijefm-01-2015-0003.
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