COMERES DE FESTA

Se para o século XX as fontes são bastante abundantes, nem sempre é fácil sistematizar a informação de modo a produzir conhecimento. Este artigo pretende dar a conhecer a tipologia de fontes disponíveis ao historiador para estudar os banquetes servidos por ocasião dos casamentos na primeira metade do século XX. Trata-se, pois, de um roteiro da diversidade de opções disponíveis e da necessidade de cruzar os dados das diferentes tipologias. Palavras-chave: Casamento. Banquete. Portugal. Século XX. Abstract In the twentieth century the sources are quite abundant, and it is not always easy to systematize the information in order to produce knowledge. This article aims to present the typology of sources available to the historian to study the wedding banquets served in the first half of the twentieth century. It is therefore a script of the diversity of options available and an alert to cross-refer data from different typologies. Keywords: Wedding. Banquet. Portugal. 20th Century.

An Empirical Study on the Venue Attributes on Customer Satisfaction of Wedding Banquets in Sri Lanka

The growth of the festival and event tourism sector has been spectacular in recent years and therefore event management has become increasingly popular with it growing and expanding equally as much as event tourism. As a most competitive industry in Sri Lanka, wedding banquet demand has a considerable increment since last few years. Recently, modern couples tend to achieve their most special occasion with a higher effort and they have been deflected for banqueting industry for having a memorable experience. Hence, the objectives of this study are to identify the existing level of venue attributes in banquet halls, to identify the relationship between those attributes and Customer satisfaction and the most influencing attributes on customer’s satisfaction. 100 of couples were selected as the sample of this study and convenience sampling method was used for selecting the sample. Data collection was done by structured questionnaires. Descriptive analysis, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple linear regressions were used for the data analysis. The findings reflect all the respondents were agreeing with existing level of attributes and all the attributes were significantly important for customer satisfaction. Decoration was the mostly influencing attribute on Customer satisfaction. Furthermore, the researcher has identified that all the independent variables showed a positive relationship with the dependent variable. Therefore, management of hotel might be considered about the enhancement of those attributes for satisfying the customers which affects the hotel demand indirectly.

The Study of Consumption Decision Key Factors in Chinese Wedding Banquet

Marriage is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most people and all new couples want the details to be perfect for a good memory. However, in the Chinese world, it is not up to the new couple to decide all details of a wedding banquet on their own, the opinions of their parents must be considered. Therefore, under the circumstances of many decision makers with different expectations, wedding consumption decisions become onerous and complex. In this study, we used the focus group method to obtain the factors for the selection of the wedding restaurant and confirmed the key facets and criteria of the factors of wedding restaurant selection and the consumption value model through the Delphi method and then looked for the important correlation among the factors and their causal relationship through DANP analysis. The research shows that the most critical facets are “emotional value” and “social value” and that the most critical criteria are “word-of-mouth” and “restaurant evaluation.” Restaurant operators are suggested to consider the needs of customers, strengthen the quality of project package content, pay attention to online comments and voice volume, strengthen staff training and understand consumer demands.

Evangelical Harmony and the Discord of Taste

This chapter argues that harmony was a foundational concept in early evangelical poetics, which located the image of God in humanity within the capacity for poetry; and that this was in contradistinction to reigning British literary criticism that focused on elite poetic taste, especially in regard to enthusiasm, the sublime, and the imagination. Looking specifically at Reverend Samuel Davies’s book of poetry, which provoked an extended controversy in the Virginia Gazette, Roberts argues that the work was controversial because it introduced an evangelical anthropology grounded in the concept of harmony that challenged social hierarchies, including race and slavery. The common perception of revivalism as noisy is best understood in the context of eighteenth-century poetic taste that undergirded social structures. The Gazette controversy highlights that Davies’s poetic form expressed his revival practices, especially communion as the wedding banquet of Christ and the believer. As such, it materialized aesthetics as a bodily experience and opened up an evangelical disposition to the world that encouraged the mingling of senses, which had direct implications on how one imagined the capacity for aesthetic experience and an emerging racialization of the senses. Though Davies stopped short of realizing the abolitionist implications of his own poetics, his extension of the “plainest capacity” into a sublime poetics for the masses along with its social ramifications was ultimately outside of his control.