This article adopts a performative approach to analysing encounters between tourists, retailers, objects, architectures, detailing the communication devices inherent in bringing “to life” a thematic selection of a place's multiple identities to promote tourism. It draws on integrated interpretations of performative approaches, illustrating them relative to the place branding enacted at local food & wine shops to address tourists visiting Verucchio, Italy. The study contributes to the literature on tourism by proposing the concept of performative place branding, enabling a more creative, hybrid, and open-ended consideration of the relationship between tourist places and place branding. This contrasts with the “top-down” logic employed in previous studies and policies for promoting tourist destinations.

Rabbiosi, C. (2016). Place branding performances in tourist local food shops. ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH, 60, 154-168 [10.1016/j.annals.2016.07.002].

Place branding performances in tourist local food shops

RABBIOSI, CHIARA
2016

Abstract

This article adopts a performative approach to analysing encounters between tourists, retailers, objects, architectures, detailing the communication devices inherent in bringing “to life” a thematic selection of a place's multiple identities to promote tourism. It draws on integrated interpretations of performative approaches, illustrating them relative to the place branding enacted at local food & wine shops to address tourists visiting Verucchio, Italy. The study contributes to the literature on tourism by proposing the concept of performative place branding, enabling a more creative, hybrid, and open-ended consideration of the relationship between tourist places and place branding. This contrasts with the “top-down” logic employed in previous studies and policies for promoting tourist destinations.
2016
Rabbiosi, C. (2016). Place branding performances in tourist local food shops. ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH, 60, 154-168 [10.1016/j.annals.2016.07.002].
Rabbiosi, Chiara
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