Of special interest in this issue is the paper by Boter et al. who present a new approach to measure the value of cultural goods; considering choice options in the willingness-to-travel of Dutch museum visitors they base their analysis on actual - and not only stated - preferences as they are revealed in the distance and time travelled.

Worth noting is also the paper by O’Hagan and Neligan on the impact of financial and socio-economic factors on repertoire decisions in the theatre sector, indicating a correlation between increase in state funding and decrease in conventionality. The remaining articles deal with distances between cultures and languages, as well as with the judgement of quality of cultural outputs.

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