Signature events: the role of representative major events for the branding of Catholic pilgrimage sites (Germany)

  • A new trend in destination marketing has been emerging for several years. Instead of many small events, locations rely on one brand-strengthening Signature Event that draws attention to the destination through its uniqueness. Because pilgrimage is arguably the oldest form of mass tourism, places of pilgrimage may have invented such Signature Events to attract devout travellers. If so, signature events at pilgrimage sites are valuable research objects for investigating their success factors. Not only are they the prototypes in which the DNA of Signature Events can be studied, but in many cases, they also had centuries to optimise their experience. Using the example of the most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites in Germany, this research examines whether there are signature events, what common structures they have, and what can be derived from these findings for destination marketing.

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Author:Markus HilpertGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-938229
Frontdoor URLhttps://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/93822
URL:https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ijrtp/vol10/iss1/13
Parent Title (English):International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
Publisher:Technological University Dublin
Place of publication:Dublin
Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universität Augsburg
Release Date:2022/03/21
Volume:10
Issue:1
First Page:13
Institutes:Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Geographie
Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik / Institut für Geographie / Lehrstuhl für Humangeographie und Transformationsforschung
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Licence (German):CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen (mit Print on Demand)