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MAIN DESTINATIONS AND TOURIST FLOWS ON THE YOUTH TRAVEL MARKET [PDF]

open access: yes
Global tourism has seen an explosion since the ‘60s due to the post-war global economic growth and over the past two decades it recorded a significant increase, youth travel being the main component of this growth.
Moisa Claudia
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Co-Creating New Mobile Devices for Groups During Field Trips: MIS-2 Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The second iteration of the Mobile Information Sharing studies (MIS-2) aimed to validate results from the previous study and to introduce mobile low-fidelity prototypes in a natural tourist activity.
Axup, Jeff, Viller, Stephen
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Formation process of the gravel‐dominated deposit from the 2011 Tohoku‐oki tsunami in Ofunato, northeastern Japan, inferred by integrating sedimentology and tsunami modelling

open access: yesSedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tsunami deposits serve as geological records of past events and are essential for understanding the occurrence and dynamics of tsunamis. However, conventional research has largely focused on sandy and boulder deposits, leaving gravel‐dominated tsunami deposits comparatively underexplored; furthermore, their characteristics and formation ...
Hidetoshi Masuda   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Koh Phi Phi: clean slates, disaster capitalism or boiled frogs? A research update on post-disaster vulnerability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Through a study which took place on Koh Phi Phi Island, Thailand between 2005 and 2011, concerning the influence of political economy and conceptualisations of sustainability upon post disaster reconstruction, the author attempts to fill the void ...
Taylor, F
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‘We Do Not Forget, We Do Not Forgive’: Anti‐Feminicide Collages and the Commemorative Politics of Care in Urban Space

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the commemorative practices of two feminist collectives engaging in anti‐feminicide collages in the cities of Paris and Montreuil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2023 and 2025, it examines how these activist interventions, as temporary urban memorials, intersect memory‐work and care‐work in urban space ...
Morgane Rudaz
wiley   +1 more source

Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
wiley   +1 more source

RESEARCH NOTES Examining the Impact of Customer-To-Customer Interaction on Service Experiences: A Pilot Study

open access: yesMalaysian Management Journal, 2015
This research focuses on how the design of backpacker hostels influences social interaction among guests and how this could enhance or spoil their service experience.
Jasmine Zea Raziah Radha Rashid-Radha   +2 more
doaj  

Vécu de l’authenticité dans l’expérience touristique: analyse et recommandations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Le but de ce travail est d’étudier, au travers d’interviews qualitatifs semi-directifs, la quête d’authenticité des quatre types de voyageurs identifiés par Erik Cohen afin de formuler des recommandations adressées aux voyagistes et aux destinations ...
Larpin, Blaise, Terrier, Aline
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50% body weight loading reduces stature increases and lumbar disc expansion from 4 h hyper‐buoyancy floatation versus 15 min sitting upright

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Microgravity is associated with stature increases, back pain and post‐flight intervertebral disc (IVD) herniation. This study aims to determine whether 30 s seated 50% body weight (BW) axial loading is comparable to 15 min sitting upright in 1 g upon changes in stature, anterior lumbar IVD height (via ultrasound), passive vertebral stiffness ...
David Marcos‐Lorenzo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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