Modelling Museum Visitors' Perception and Experience of Authenticity: Examining Heterogeneity With a Finite Mixture Model

• Autorzy: Claudia Bauer-Krösbacher , Josef A. Mazanec
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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Purpose. In this study, the authors explore the role of museum visitors' perceptions and experiences of authenticity. They introduce several variants of authenticity experience and analyse how they are intertwined and feed visitor satisfaction.
Method. The authors apply a multi-step model fitting and validation procedure including inferred causation methods and finite mixture modelling to verify whether the visitors' perceptions of authenticity are subject to unobserved heterogeneity. They elaborate an Authenticity Model that demonstrates out-of-sample validity and generalisability by being exposed to new data for another cultural attraction in another city. Then, they address the heterogeneity hypothesis and evaluate it for the case study with the larger sample.
Findings. In both application cases, the Sisi museum in Vienna and the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, the empirical results support the assumed cause-effect sequence, translating high quality information display - from traditional and multimedia sources - into Perceived Authenticity and its experiential consequences such as Depth and Satisfaction. Accounting for unobserved heterogeneity detects three latent classes with segment-specific strength of relationships within the structural model.
Research and conclusions limitations. The combined latent-class, structural-equation model needs validation with another sample that would have to be larger than the available
Guinness database. Future studies will have to complement the purely data-driven search for heterogeneity with theory-guided reasoning about potential causes of diversity in the strength of the structural relationships.
Practical implications. Cultural heritage sites are among the attractions most typical of city tourism. History tends to materialise in the artefacts accumulated by the population among the urban agglomerations, and museums are the natural places for preserving exhibits of cultural value. Authenticity must be considered an important quality assessment criterion for many visitors, whereby, the distinction between object authenticity and existential authenticity is crucial.
Originality. In addition to making substantive contributions to authenticity theory, the authors also extend previous research in terms of methodological effort. Authenticity research, so far, has neither exploited inferred causation methods nor combined latent variable modelling with detecting unobserved heterogeneity.
Type of paper: Research article. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

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Cultural heritage; Museums; Touristic attractiveness; Customer satisfaction

PL

Dziedzictwo kulturowe; Muzea; Atrakcyjność turystyczna; Satysfakcja klienta

• Czasopismo: Folia Turistica / Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego im. B. Czecha w Krakowie
• Rocznik: 2021
• Numer: nr 56 Approaches and Methods in Tourism Research
• Strony: 35--58

Twórcy

autor

Claudia Bauer-Krösbacher

• IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems

autor

Josef A. Mazanec

• Modul University Vienna

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DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0014.8957