This study was the first to include the main market segments that were
motivated to attend specific music festivals. Through cluster analysis, three
different market segments emerged: local repeaters, the young party set, and
local families. However, in regard to their motivations, the market segments
varied only marginally, with known-group socialization, socialization, and
enjoying the artists’ performance being the motivations that were popular
for all three clusters. The young party set was differentiated in terms of their
greater interest in partying, while the other two clusters were motivated by
the motives of excitement and novelty seeking. The clusters differed in the
socio-demographic characteristics of age, marital status, children accompaniment,
place of residence, number of previous visits, and intention to revisit.
This study concluded that the socio-demographic variables had a limited
influence on motivations, although there was a tendency for visitors to be
younger than residents, and varying motivational inclinations were more
common for local attendees compared to visitors. Similar results were found
in the study by Formica and Uysal (1996), who studied visitors to the Umbria
Jazz Festival in Italy and were discussed previously.