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Creative Tourism Consumption: Framing the Creative Habitus through a Bourdieusian Lens

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  • Rui Carvalho

    (ISLA-Santarém Higher Institute of Management and Administration, 2000-241 Santarém, Portugal
    Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP), DEGEIT, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal)

  • Carlos Costa

    (Research Unit on Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP), DEGEIT, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal)

  • Ana Ferreira

    (CIDEHUS-Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Culture and Societies, University of Évora, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal)

Abstract

Creative tourism studies remain a newly developed field, pointing to changes in the consumption of tourism and culture while influencing how creativity and co-creation differentiate tourism supply through exploring the existential dimensions of creative experiences, the latter remaining 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 resulting 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.

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  • Rui Carvalho & Carlos Costa & Ana Ferreira, 2023. "Creative Tourism Consumption: Framing the Creative Habitus through a Bourdieusian Lens," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(3), pages 1-13, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:15:y:2023:i:3:p:2281-:d:1047389
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