The decision to visit a festival or an event is a directed activity initiated by a wish to fulfil certain cultural need. Although motives only represent one of the variables describing visitor behaviour (besides learning, cultural conditioning and social influences), they form a crucial point...

The importance of festivals is increasing in the tourism industry. Festivals are considered to be important generators of economic benefits. The aims of this paper are to segment the market of two music festivals that took place in two regions of Portugal (Oporto and the Coast of Alentejo)...

This article proposes to go beyond the view of consumer religiosity as a stable characteristic. Rather, focusing on minority cultural settings, this research presents religiosity as a mobilized resource or a constraint the consumer faces in purchasing environments. The context preceding the...

Brand experience has attracted a lot of attention in the Marketing practice. With consumers seeking not only functional benefits of a brand but also emotional experiences, brand experience theory attempts to provide answers on how brand experience can be measured and how it effects consumer...

The purpose of this paper is to show peculiarities of traditional and experiential marketing and describe why experiential marketing is better way to understand consumer behaviour. Comparative analysis shows the main characteristics of traditional and experiential marketing. Traditional...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the types of value that arise in the shopping context and the factors that determine it, as well as to present consumer attitudes towards the value generated by experiential marketing activities. The paper presents the results of five focus group...

Today’s consumers have built around themselves a protective shield against the hundreds of ads they are being bombarded with each day. In this sense, the companies have chosen to direct their focus towards unconventional advertising, particularly towards providing the consumer with a direct...

As the change of economical environment, customers consume sometimes merely for fun, joy and pleasure instead of problems solving or specific product function. For consumers, sports performance means more than competition, but the entertainment, excitement and wonderful memories. For most sport...

The experiential marketing is born in 1982, with M.B. Holbrook and E. Hirschmann works. They demonstrated that in products and services choices, the playful and hedonic parts of the consumption experience are more important than the useful part. Then Holbrook developed this topic about the...

As the change of economical environment, customers consume sometimes merely for fun, joy and pleasure instead of problems solving or specific product function. For consumers, sports performance means more than competition, but the entertainment, excitement and wonderful memories. For most sport...