Loading...
Publication
Creative Tourism Consumption: Framing the Creative Habitus through a Bourdieusian Lens
| Name: | Description: | Size: | Format: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 426.08 KB | Adobe PDF |
Authors
Advisor(s)
Abstract(s)
Creative tourism studies remain a newly developed field, pointing to changes in the con sumption of tourism and culture while influencing how creativity and co-creation differentiate tour ism supply through exploring the existential dimensions of creative experiences, the latter remain ing an under-researched theme in the creative tourism literature. In addition, this type of tourism is
presented as more responsible and sustainable than other types of massified forms of tourism.
Building on a Bourdieusian approach, an updated version of Bourdieu’s main sociological thinking
tools was used to analyse the creative habitus of both the supply and demand involved in the co creation of creative tourism experiences. The authors developed 42 semi-structured interviews with
creatives and creative tourists using the Loulé Criativo network in Portugal as a case study and
applied qualitative techniques for the data treatment. The results showed that the creative habitus
could move successfully between fields, expressing a sustainable agency towards creative tourism
consumption. Autodidactism is important for skill development and knowledge replication result ing from the co-creation of creative experiences. The creative habitus, endowed with intercultural
and creative capital, is characterized by self-education and ecological awareness where co-creation
and coexistence with other creative people enhance the development and replication of creative
competencies outside the tourism field.
Description
Keywords
Creative tourism creative habitus sustainability tourism consumption Bourdieu