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0000-0003-4534-2947
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Southern Cross University
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Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-12-2013
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-10-2018
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 1998
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.4018/IJOPCD.2018070105
Abstract: As attrition rates of Australian undergraduate distance programs are consistently high, this article investigates whether retention can be increased by increasing the students' satisfaction through improving the student experience. This project examines the distance student experience informed by students' satisfaction with already identified crucial program factors. The authors propose that the Experience Economy model, utilised in tourism studies and general economics, is also relevant to education. An online survey collected data from 75 undergraduate distance students. Gathered data was analysed using two simple mediation models. The distance student experience and the students' satisfaction with crucial program factors were strongly indirectly related to the students' intention to persist through the students' overall satisfaction. The results indicate that designers of tertiary distance courses should consider program factors and the characteristics of the distance student experience to ensure high levels of student satisfaction and to increase the students' intention to persist.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-09-2016
Abstract: This article considers the growing phenomenon of music festivals on cruise ships. These commercial events, partnerships between event companies and shipping lines, celebrate a particular genre of music and occur aboard a cruise ship. The views of 138 festivalgoers primarily concentrated within six festivals were considered. According to these sources, the festival experience of these events is centred on three factors: live performances, interaction with fellow festivalgoers and star musicians (collectively referred to as ‘ship fam’), and interaction with the constructed space of the cruise ship. Cruise ship music festivals are a different type of music festival, still occurring within festival space, but within the mobile experiential cocoon of a cruise ship.
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Date: 04-03-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-10-2018
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
Date: 24-06-2013
Publisher: Cognizant, LLC
Date: 09-06-2016
DOI: 10.3727/154427315X14513374773328
Abstract: Live musical performance forms the core of the cruise ship entertainment product, contributing to the constructed cruise experience. However, unlike much of the cruise experience, musical performance does not directly generate income. Such performances instead act as semiotic guides informing them, for ex le, that the afternoon may be spent lazing by the pool, or that evenings are constructed as high-class theatrical events, or as party time in the disco. Further, such musical performances encourage guests to attend spaces that generate income (such as bars, lido deck, and casinos) and dissuade them from attending spaces where income is unlikely to be generated (such as their cabin). This research considers the implementation of musical performances on cruise ships using two data sources. Qualitative data is drawn from ship programs describing the actual placement of music. Quantitative data is drawn from interviews with industry personnel describing the intentions of music placement. It finds that periods when guests are on board, such as evenings and sea days, engenders most of the musical performance. This produces revenue that reverts to the ship. Certain genres occur at different times on different days, such as Caribbean/Latin American-themed music occurring on sea days, or cocktail piano occurring in the evening, further acting as semiotic guides. This constructed artistic product attracts people to undertake a cruise, makes a cruise memorable, and informs their experience of the cruise ship tourism product.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
Date: 31-12-2014
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