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In Search of Relived Social Experience: Group-Based Nostalgia Sport Tourism.
- Source :
- Journal of Sport Management; Jul2003, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p284, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- Why do some fans travel to follow professional sport teams? In order to answer that question, participant observation and ethnographic interviews were used to examine the motives and behaviors of a group that undertakes a 5-day bus trip to watch its team play in a distant city. Nostalgia was identified as a key element of the experience. In particular, nostalgic recollections of past trips were found to be a vital basis for repeated travel by the group and for socializing new members. Five themes having to do with nostalgia were identified: nostalgia as motive, norms and rituals as objects of nostalgia, best experience as object of nostalgia, nostalgia as a basis for trip suggestions, and nostalgia through socialization. It is suggested that group-based nostalgia can play a more significant role in fan travel behavior than has heretofore been recognized and that nostalgic appeals can foster repeat purchase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08884773
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Sport Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10263297
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.17.3.284