Maintaining Connections during the Pandemic: Rural Arts Festivals and Digital Practices

IF 1.2 Q3 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia Pub Date : 2023-09-25 DOI:10.3390/tourhosp4040031

Enya Moore, Bernadette Quinn

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Abstract

During the COVID lockdowns of 2020/21, the transmission of live or recorded concerts grew exponentially as festival makers embraced digital technologies to a greater degree. Investigating how this digital pivot interrupted festival-making practices is now important given that online and hybrid modes will potentially be used in conjunction with in-person events in the future. This task has relevance for rural areas where digital infrastructures can be under-developed. Yet, place-based, community-organised festivals can play a significant role in sustaining local communities. In this context, we explore the recent digital programming practices of music festivals in West Cork, Ireland. Methodologically, the study adopted a qualitative research design and generated data from fieldwork observations and in-depth interviews with festival practitioners in West Cork. This area was chosen for study because it is characterised by intensive arts and festival activity, high tourism activity, and a significant level of social change. The findings show that the ability of festivals to move practices online was variable and highly resource dependent. Overall, they suggest that in times of crisis the role of festivals became even more important than normal. Festivals played an important role in sustaining social connectivity, cultural participation and employment, with festival organisations demonstrating a strong sense of care and responsibility towards participants.

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大流行期间保持联系:农村艺术节和数字实践

在2020/21年新冠肺炎疫情封锁期间，随着音乐节制作人在更大程度上采用数字技术，现场或录制音乐会的传播呈指数级增长。考虑到在线和混合模式在未来可能会与现场活动结合使用，研究这种数字枢纽如何打断节日制作实践是很重要的。这项任务与数字基础设施可能不发达的农村地区有关。然而，基于地方的、社区组织的节日可以在维持当地社区方面发挥重要作用。在这种情况下，我们探讨了最近在爱尔兰西科克音乐节的数字编程实践。在方法上，该研究采用了定性研究设计，并从实地考察和对西科克节日从业者的深入访谈中生成数据。之所以选择这个地区进行研究，是因为它的特点是密集的艺术和节日活动，高旅游活动和显著的社会变化。研究结果表明，节日将活动转移到网上的能力是可变的，并且高度依赖资源。总的来说，他们认为，在危机时期，节日的作用变得比平时更重要。节日在保持社会联系、文化参与和就业方面发挥了重要作用，节日组织对参与者表现出强烈的关怀和责任感。

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Tourism and Hospitality Management-Croatia HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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1.90

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23.10%

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15 weeks

期刊介绍： Tourism and Hospitality Management is an international, multidisciplinary, open access journal, aiming to promote and enhance research in all fields of the tourism and hospitality industry. It publishes double-blind reviewed papers and encourages an interchange between tourism and hospitality researchers, educators and managers. Editors of Tourism and Hospitality Management strongly promote research integrity and aim to prevent any type of scientific misconduct, such as: fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, redundant publication and authorship problems. All submitted manuscripts are checked using Crossref Similarity Check (iThenticate). Nurturing a scientifically based approach to research, the journal publishes original papers along with empirical research and theoretical articles that contribute to the conceptual development of tourism and hospitality management. Editors look particularly for articles about new trends, challenges and developments, as well as the application of new ideas that are likely to affect the tourism and hospitality industry. The general criteria for the acceptance of articles are: contribution to the scientific knowledge in the field of tourism and hospitality management, scientifically reliable research methodology, relevant literature review and quality of the English language.