In tourism, authenticity has been studied from many different angles, for example, to understand guests’ perceived authenticity at tourist city attractions and at staged cultural performances in indigenous villages, or how tourists discuss existential/experiential authenticity in cultural restaurant experiences. Most research on authenticity has been performed in cultural settings, and there is still much to understand about tourist experience perceptions in natural landscapes, like the rainforest in Costa Rica or the grasslands in Kansas, as well as the role of experience design and planning in these settings.
5. The issue
• As globalization advances, cultures become
homogenized.
6. The issue
• As globalization advances, cultures become
homogenized.
• Places look like any other, languages disappear,
and multinationals are omnipresent.
7. The issue
• As globalization advances, cultures become
homogenized.
• Places look like any other, languages disappear,
and multinationals are omnipresent.
• Authentic experiences are harder to find for a
tourism market that increasingly seeks them out.
8. Overview
• The Concept of Authenticity. Why now?
• Customer Sensibilities
• The Progression of Economic Value
• The Offering and Perception of
Authenticity
• Landscape of Authenticity
• Implications for Protected Areas
• Interpretation and Authenticity
11. • Pay for experiences that feel real, authentic.
• Deal less with technology, more with “real
people”
Feel real
12. • Create their own social reality through self-
expression
• Adjust the perception of authenticity to self-
image of different generations
Fashion
self-image
13. • Trust in transparency of social institutions
(business, education, government, charity,
church)
Feel
trustworthy
16. The Progression of Economic Value
Extract
commodities
Make
goods
Deliver
services
Stage
experiences
Guide
transformations
(Render
authenticity)
(Improve quality)
(Control costs)
(Supply availability)
Added by Pine & GilmoreTraditional Model
29. Landscape of Authenticity
• Organizations offer five genres of perceived authenticity
• Each one is connected to the economic offerings
(commodities, goods, services, experiences transformations)
30. Landscape of Authenticity
• Organizations offer five genres of perceived authenticity
• Each one is connected to the economic offerings
(commodities, goods, services, experiences transformations)
• They are related to the design of places, objects, and activities
38. • Appling all five genres is not always possible,
not even desirable.
• A (well executed) combination, however,
might appeal to the desire for authenticity.
42. Commodities –
Natural authenticity
Goods –
Original authenticity
Services –
Exceptional authenticity
Experiences –
Referential authenticity
Transformations –
Influential authenticity
•Authenticity on
tourists’ overall
experience plays
an important role
to influence the
customers’
visitation choices
43. Experiences –
Referential authenticity
Transformations –
Influential authenticity
•Interpretation could
play a fundamental role
revealing the
authenticity of a place,
for the audience to
create connections and
meanings.
44.
45. The Search for Authenticity in
Tourism and Conservation Ventures
Marisol Mayorga
mmayorga @ksu.edu
May 2014
Notes de l'éditeur
The theory of progression of economic value explains how economies tend to follow a succession from the offering of commodities, toward the offering of goods, and services. In addition to these offerings, Pine & Gilmore proposed two more, the offering of experiences, and more recently, transformations.
Commodities (extracted from the earth and then exchanged in the market)
Goods (tangible things manufactured from commodities)
Services (intangible activities delivered on behalf of individual customers).
Experiences (memorable events that engage individuals in an inherently personal way)
Transformations (effectual outcomes that guide customers to change some dimension of self)
People trying to make a difference buying organic or fair trade coffee.
The experiences happen inside us, and therefore they are unique for each individual. People however, want to perceive that what they are paying for is real, not a fake… There are five genres of perceived authenticity, each one connected to the five economic offerings, and related to different aspects of design of places, objects, and activities:
The experiences happen inside us, and therefore they are unique for each individual. People however, want to perceive that what they are paying for is real, not a fake… There are five genres of perceived authenticity, each one connected to the five economic offerings, and related to different aspects of design of places, objects, and activities:
The experiences happen inside us, and therefore they are unique for each individual. People however, want to perceive that what they are paying for is real, not a fake… There are five genres of perceived authenticity, each one connected to the five economic offerings, and related to different aspects of design of places, objects, and activities:
Commodities –Natural authenticity. People tend to perceive as authentic that which exists in its natural state in or of the earth, remaining untouched by human hands; not artificial or synthetic.
Goods –Original authenticity. People tend to perceive as authentic that which possesses originality in design, being the first of its kind, never before seen by human eyes; not a copy or imitation.
Services –Exceptional authenticity. People tend to perceive as authentic that which is done exceptionally well, executed individually and extraordinarily by someone demonstrating human care; not unfeelingly or disingenuously performed.
Experiences –Referential authenticity. People tend to perceive as authentic that which refers to some other context, drawing inspiration from human history, and tapping into our shared memories and longings; not derivative r trivial.
Transformations –Influential authenticity. People tend to perceive as authentic that which exerts influence on other entities, calling human beings to a higher goal and providing a foretaste of a better way; not inconsequential or without meaning.