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Aural Experience: Exploring the Soundscape of Tourist Destinations

This paper is based on a study of the management of sound and music on Krk Island in Croatia, a destination that seeks to promote itself as a place of unique aural experiences. The starting point centres on a fundamental question: how to improve the management of music and sound, based on sustainable development, for the purpose of developing aural experiences and the musical offering of a tourist destination. The research has been carried out through a soundscape approach, which refers to the complex and active co-relationship of listener, environment and sound, in which the experience of space is viewed through the prism of its acoustic qualities (Brown, 2012 ; Cox, 2015 ; Schafer, 1994 ; Truax, 2001). The effect of a soundscape on an integrated experience of a destination as a space is reflected in its acoustic quality (Schafer, 1994 ; Truax, 2001). The acoustic quality of a destination is closely linked to sound and music management with regard to development, in particular the development of an offering of products and services based on sound and music, the foremost of which are live music concerts. Based on the soundscape assessment model, the research methodology involves the qualitative determination of concert visitor perceptions and the quantitative assessment of objective parameters—the measurement of sound pressure level.

soundscape ; acoustic ecology ; acoustic quality ; Krk Island ; tourism, music

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