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Papers by Julie Masset

Research paper thumbnail of Videography in tourism research: An analytical review

Tourism Management, May 31, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Le festival Tomorrowland-L’expérience d’une vie

Research paper thumbnail of Around the world of tourist souvenirs

Research paper thumbnail of The tourist's inner transformations as a consumer:From entangled to entrapped self

Research paper thumbnail of La concurrence entre Etats américains au niveau du droit des sociétés

Research paper thumbnail of Building knowledge from the tourism field:the grounded theory approach

Research paper thumbnail of Techniques de collecte de données qualitatives

Research paper thumbnail of I want this Ramses' statue:" Motives and meanings for buying tourist souvenirs

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Research paper thumbnail of The recontextualization of special possessions in time, space and the social environment: The case of tourist souvenirs

Research paper thumbnail of Videography entitled "Tomorrowland Festival-A heterotopia of Deviation

Research paper thumbnail of People-things entanglement: An archeological perspective on the relationships between people and things

Research paper thumbnail of Chapitre 7. Techniques de collecte de données qualitatives

La recherche en management du tourisme, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Meanings of Tourist Souvenirs: From the Holiday Experience to Everyday Life

Journal of Travel Research, 2020

Even though research on tourist souvenirs is quite extensive, it fails to provide a holistic and ... more Even though research on tourist souvenirs is quite extensive, it fails to provide a holistic and in-depth perspective on their meanings and their evolution in time and space. Through a symbolic interactionist perspective, the current research aims at filling this gap. We conducted a longitudinal study combining interviews, projective techniques, and observations. Our findings provide a holistic and dynamic approach to tourist souvenirs’ meanings by emphasizing their temporal and spatial evolution through three processes. First, we suggest that decontextualization effects and the negative perceptions of some souvenirs may prevent them from entering home. Second, we consider the spatiality of souvenirs within different home areas depending on the meanings they hold for their owners. We also show that the souvenirs’ meaningfulness can also be reactivated over time. Third, we emphasize ways meaningless souvenirs may leave the home sphere. Finally, we discuss managerial suggestions and p...

Research paper thumbnail of I Want This Ramses’ Statue: Motives and Meanings of Tourist Souvenirs

Sustainability of Tourism: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives

This chapter aims to better understand tourists’ motivations to buy souvenirs while travelling or... more This chapter aims to better understand tourists’ motivations to buy souvenirs while travelling or vacationing as well as the meanings, values and symbols that underlie the consumption of such souvenirs. We only consider the material souvenirs, i.e., all the objects that have been purchased, received, or picked up from the destination. For this research goal, we conducted a qualitative interpretive study using in-depth interview, participant observation, and projective techniques. A total of nineteen Belgian informants have been interviewed and observed at home. Grounded theory, which consists in building a local theory through an inductive and logical process, has been used to analyse and interpret the data. Emerging findings provide a series of motives for buying and consuming material souvenirs, i.e., remembrance, extension of the vacation experience, decoration, functionality, exercising an economic power, and gift-giving. The analysis of related meanings leads to a new typology of four types of souvenirs, i.e., the symbolic souvenir, the hedonistic souvenir, the utilitarian souvenir, and the souvenir as a gift. Finally, we propose managerial actions to makers and retailers of tourist souvenirs.

Research paper thumbnail of A T-Shirt from New York, a Coral from Mauritius: A Functional Typology of Tourist Souvenirs

Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2014

Abstract This chapter offers a deeper understanding of the symbols and meanings attached to touri... more Abstract This chapter offers a deeper understanding of the symbols and meanings attached to tourists’ special possessions as well as of the functions they fulfill in contemporary consumption. Nineteen informants have been interviewed and observed at home in a naturalistic interpretive perspective. Interview transcripts, field notes, and pictorial material were analyzed and interpreted through the grounded theory approach. This results in a new typology of symbolic souvenirs including touristic trinkets, destination stereotypes, paper mementoes, and picked-up objects. Such a typology relates to four major functions souvenirs may fulfill in terms of meanings and identity construction, that is, categorization, self-expression, connectedness, and self-creation.

Research paper thumbnail of A videography of tourist souvenirs around the world

Research paper thumbnail of “This is a piece of coral received from captain Bob”: meanings and functions of tourist souvenirs

International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2014

Purpose – Tourists' special possessions are under-studied in consumer research despite their ... more Purpose – Tourists' special possessions are under-studied in consumer research despite their importance in self-identity development. Furthermore, extant studies about tourist souvenirs fail in providing an extensive and in-depth view of souvenirs, and in exploring both their functional and symbolic dimensions. This paper aims to better and deeply understand the symbols and meanings attached to tourist souvenirs as well as the functions they fulfil in contemporary consumption. Design/methodology/approach – A naturalistic interpretive approach has been privileged. A total of 19 informants have been interviewed and observed at home in a triangulation perspective. Interview transcripts, field notes, and pictorial material were analyzed and interpreted through the grounded theory approach. Findings – A new typology of four types of symbolic souvenirs including touristic trinkets, destination stereotypes, paper mementoes, and picked-up objects is developed. The typology is grounded o...

Research paper thumbnail of Luxury tourism through private sales websites: Exploration of prestige-seeking consumers’ motivations and managers’ perceptions

Journal of Business Research, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The transition of tourist souvenirs: From the holiday experience to everyday life

Research paper thumbnail of Building knowledge from the tourism field: the grounded theory approach

Research paper thumbnail of Videography in tourism research: An analytical review

Tourism Management, May 31, 2024

Research paper thumbnail of Le festival Tomorrowland-L’expérience d’une vie

Research paper thumbnail of Around the world of tourist souvenirs

Research paper thumbnail of The tourist's inner transformations as a consumer:From entangled to entrapped self

Research paper thumbnail of La concurrence entre Etats américains au niveau du droit des sociétés

Research paper thumbnail of Building knowledge from the tourism field:the grounded theory approach

Research paper thumbnail of Techniques de collecte de données qualitatives

Research paper thumbnail of I want this Ramses' statue:" Motives and meanings for buying tourist souvenirs

Please be patient while the object screen loads. Changez de vue : Choisir un site… UCL FUNDP FUSL... more Please be patient while the object screen loads. Changez de vue : Choisir un site… UCL FUNDP FUSL FUCaM. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The recontextualization of special possessions in time, space and the social environment: The case of tourist souvenirs

Research paper thumbnail of Videography entitled "Tomorrowland Festival-A heterotopia of Deviation

Research paper thumbnail of People-things entanglement: An archeological perspective on the relationships between people and things

Research paper thumbnail of Chapitre 7. Techniques de collecte de données qualitatives

La recherche en management du tourisme, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Meanings of Tourist Souvenirs: From the Holiday Experience to Everyday Life

Journal of Travel Research, 2020

Even though research on tourist souvenirs is quite extensive, it fails to provide a holistic and ... more Even though research on tourist souvenirs is quite extensive, it fails to provide a holistic and in-depth perspective on their meanings and their evolution in time and space. Through a symbolic interactionist perspective, the current research aims at filling this gap. We conducted a longitudinal study combining interviews, projective techniques, and observations. Our findings provide a holistic and dynamic approach to tourist souvenirs’ meanings by emphasizing their temporal and spatial evolution through three processes. First, we suggest that decontextualization effects and the negative perceptions of some souvenirs may prevent them from entering home. Second, we consider the spatiality of souvenirs within different home areas depending on the meanings they hold for their owners. We also show that the souvenirs’ meaningfulness can also be reactivated over time. Third, we emphasize ways meaningless souvenirs may leave the home sphere. Finally, we discuss managerial suggestions and p...

Research paper thumbnail of I Want This Ramses’ Statue: Motives and Meanings of Tourist Souvenirs

Sustainability of Tourism: Cultural and Environmental Perspectives

This chapter aims to better understand tourists’ motivations to buy souvenirs while travelling or... more This chapter aims to better understand tourists’ motivations to buy souvenirs while travelling or vacationing as well as the meanings, values and symbols that underlie the consumption of such souvenirs. We only consider the material souvenirs, i.e., all the objects that have been purchased, received, or picked up from the destination. For this research goal, we conducted a qualitative interpretive study using in-depth interview, participant observation, and projective techniques. A total of nineteen Belgian informants have been interviewed and observed at home. Grounded theory, which consists in building a local theory through an inductive and logical process, has been used to analyse and interpret the data. Emerging findings provide a series of motives for buying and consuming material souvenirs, i.e., remembrance, extension of the vacation experience, decoration, functionality, exercising an economic power, and gift-giving. The analysis of related meanings leads to a new typology of four types of souvenirs, i.e., the symbolic souvenir, the hedonistic souvenir, the utilitarian souvenir, and the souvenir as a gift. Finally, we propose managerial actions to makers and retailers of tourist souvenirs.

Research paper thumbnail of A T-Shirt from New York, a Coral from Mauritius: A Functional Typology of Tourist Souvenirs

Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2014

Abstract This chapter offers a deeper understanding of the symbols and meanings attached to touri... more Abstract This chapter offers a deeper understanding of the symbols and meanings attached to tourists’ special possessions as well as of the functions they fulfill in contemporary consumption. Nineteen informants have been interviewed and observed at home in a naturalistic interpretive perspective. Interview transcripts, field notes, and pictorial material were analyzed and interpreted through the grounded theory approach. This results in a new typology of symbolic souvenirs including touristic trinkets, destination stereotypes, paper mementoes, and picked-up objects. Such a typology relates to four major functions souvenirs may fulfill in terms of meanings and identity construction, that is, categorization, self-expression, connectedness, and self-creation.

Research paper thumbnail of A videography of tourist souvenirs around the world

Research paper thumbnail of “This is a piece of coral received from captain Bob”: meanings and functions of tourist souvenirs

International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2014

Purpose – Tourists' special possessions are under-studied in consumer research despite their ... more Purpose – Tourists' special possessions are under-studied in consumer research despite their importance in self-identity development. Furthermore, extant studies about tourist souvenirs fail in providing an extensive and in-depth view of souvenirs, and in exploring both their functional and symbolic dimensions. This paper aims to better and deeply understand the symbols and meanings attached to tourist souvenirs as well as the functions they fulfil in contemporary consumption. Design/methodology/approach – A naturalistic interpretive approach has been privileged. A total of 19 informants have been interviewed and observed at home in a triangulation perspective. Interview transcripts, field notes, and pictorial material were analyzed and interpreted through the grounded theory approach. Findings – A new typology of four types of symbolic souvenirs including touristic trinkets, destination stereotypes, paper mementoes, and picked-up objects is developed. The typology is grounded o...

Research paper thumbnail of Luxury tourism through private sales websites: Exploration of prestige-seeking consumers’ motivations and managers’ perceptions

Journal of Business Research, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of The transition of tourist souvenirs: From the holiday experience to everyday life

Research paper thumbnail of Building knowledge from the tourism field: the grounded theory approach

Research paper thumbnail of A T-Shirt from New York, a coral from Mauritius: A functional typology of tourist souvenirs

in Tourists' Behaviors and Evaluations (Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research), eds. Arch G. Woodside and Metin Kozak, Volume 9, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of I want this Ramses’ statue: Motives and meanings of tourist souvenirs

in Sustainability of tourism: Cultural and environmental perspectives, eds. Metin Kozak and Nazmi Kozak, 2011

This chapter aims to better understand tourists’ motivations to buy souvenirs while travelling or... more This chapter aims to better understand tourists’ motivations to buy souvenirs while travelling or vacationing as well as the meanings, values and symbols that underlie the consumption of such souvenirs. We only consider the material souvenirs, i.e., all the objects that have been purchased, received, or picked up from the destination. For this research goal, we conducted a qualitative interpretive study using in-depth interview, participant observation, and projective techniques. A total of nineteen Belgian informants have been interviewed and observed at home. Grounded theory, which consists in building a local theory through an inductive and logical process, has been used to analyse and interpret the data. Emerging findings provide a series of motives for buying and consuming material souvenirs, i.e., remembrance, extension of the vacation experience, decoration, functionality, exercising an economic power, and gift-giving. The analysis of related meanings leads to a new typology of four types of souvenirs, i.e., the symbolic souvenir, the hedonistic souvenir, the utilitarian souvenir, and the souvenir as a gift. Finally, we propose managerial actions to makers and retailers of tourist souvenirs.

Research paper thumbnail of Tourisme et possessions spéciales : Le cas des souvenirs de vacances

dans Le touriste consommateur : Comprendre les comportements pour améliorer son efficacité marketing, sous la direction d’Alain Decrop, 2010