B EFORE THE INTERNET ERA SOME OF THE MOST FAMOUS SWEDES were Bj€orn Borg, Greta Garbo, Astrid Lindgren, and of course ABBA, a legendary band in pop music history. ABBA’s international breakthrough came with winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, after which it toured the world for many years, playing its last live concert in 1980. The band is closely associated with Sweden, even to the point where Swedish music was once synonymous with ABBA, and therefore attracts people’s interest in Sweden as a place to visit (Visit Sweden). Traveling in the footsteps of ABBA involves people traveling as either fans, pilgrims, concertgoers, or festival attendees and is a type of music tourism (Lashua et al. 4). Music tourism is by no means a new tourism phenomenon (Gibson and Connell 162), but tourism associated with mass-produced popular music is of course a more recent thing. The number of tourists who visit Sweden and other related sites internationally because of ABBA is unknown. In fact, there is little empirical research on music tourism in general, with the exception of

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跟随ABBA的脚步旅行

在互联网时代之前，一些最著名的瑞典人是比约恩·博格、葛丽泰·嘉宝、阿斯特丽德·林格伦，当然还有流行音乐史上的传奇乐队 ABBA。ABBA 的国际突破是在 1974 年赢得欧洲歌唱大赛之后，它在世界各地巡回演出多年，并在 1980 年举办了最后一场现场音乐会。该乐队与瑞典有着密切的联系，甚至到了瑞典音乐曾经是瑞典音乐的代名词的地步。 ABBA，也因此吸引了人们对瑞典的兴趣（Visit Sweden）。跟随 ABBA 的脚步旅行，人们可以作为歌迷、朝圣者、音乐会观众或音乐节参加者旅行，是一种音乐旅游（Lashua 等人 4）。音乐旅游绝不是一种新的旅游现象（Gibson and Connell 162），但与大量生产的流行音乐相关的旅游业当然是最近的事情。因 ABBA 而在国际上访问瑞典和其他相关网站的游客人数不详。事实上，一般来说，关于音乐旅游的实证研究很少，除了