Visioning and resilience of craft beer festival tourism: attendee as flaneur/flaneuse

Robertson, Martin; Adams, Andrew

Abstract

In the work discussed here, the researchers focus on the changing form and function of consumption at Beer Festivals (BFs). The increasing significance of food variety and food origin matches the changing format of Beer Festivals, their attendees profile and the experience sought. This is most particularly witnessed in the growth of the contemporary Craft Beer Festival (CBF).
This research adds to a body of knowledge that has grown with the Flaneur (Baudelaire, 1863), the social significance of beer festival activity, and the attributes of visioning futures to aid resilience of Beer Festival Tourism in volatile social-economic times.
A dual process of data collection and analysis is made. First, empirical evidence is drawn from beer festival attendee observation, interviews and social-media narrative. Second, a future scoping process, identifying drivers, signposts and signals (Robertson & Yeoman, 2014) is applied.

Citation

Robertson, M., & Adams, A. (2020, February). Visioning and resilience of craft beer festival tourism: attendee as flaneur/flaneuse. Presented at CAUTHE 2020, 20:20 Vision: New Perspective on the diversity of Hospitality, Tourism and Events., Auckland University of Technology

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: CAUTHE 2020, 20:20 Vision: New Perspective on the diversity of Hospitality, Tourism and Events.
• Start Date: Feb 10, 2020
• End Date: Feb 13, 2020
• Acceptance Date: Jan 5, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: May 4, 2020
• Pages: 695
• Book Title: 20:20 Vision: New Perspective on the diversity of Hospitality, Tourism and Events. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference
• ISBN: 978-0-473-50923-1
• Keywords: Festival, Future Resilience, Flaneur
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2615021
• Publisher URL: https://search.informit.com.au/browsePublication;res=IELBUS;eissn=9780473509224