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Active Aging: Hiking, Health, and Healing [PDF]
Anthropology & Aging, 2013 This article examines the illness and recovery experiences and perceptions of physically active middle aged and older adults participating in hiking groups.
Rodney Steadman +2 more
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Cybernetics and Information Technologies, 2020 The mountain hiking destinations become more popular as this is one of the possible ways to cope with workplace stress and to prevent burnout. In contrast to the tourist destinations, mountain hiking requires special attention due to the variety of ...
Dimitrova Zornitsa +4 more
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PRESCHOOLERS EXPLORING THE RURAL ENVIRONMENT [PDF]
Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2017 This paper presents an experimental research made up in 2016-2017 school year with a major group of 16 children from the Kindergarten with Normal Programme in Lechința, Mureș County, Romania. The following assumption was attested: “If the preschoolers
Maria Daniela MĂRGINEAN +1 more
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Exploring hinking experiences in Northern Italy: organization, socialization, and unstated rules
Sociología del Deporte, 2021 Hiking is often studied for its physical and mental health benefits. Yet little research describes the actual practice of hiking itself as a social activity. Based on a qualitative approach, with in-depth interviews conducted with 7 subjects in Northern
Jardel Sestrem, Michael Zaslavsky
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Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) on touristic trails of the native forests of the Azores (Portugal) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 The sharp increase in tourist visitation of the Azores archipelago from 2015 onwards raised concerns about the impacts of recreational tourism on native habitats. In response, a project was financed by the Azorean Government to investigate the drivers of
Rui Carvalho +10 more
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Motivation-Based Segmentation of Hiking Tourists in Taiwan
Tourism and HospitalityHiking is one of the most popular and significant recreational activities in natural settings, yet hiking tourists are often not distinguished from the broader population of nature-based tourists.
Sai-Leung Ng, Ming-Chien Hsu
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Invasive Alien Plant Species on Hiking Trails in Mount Prau, Indonesia [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesHiking tourism activities create habitats that support the introduction of non-native (alien) plant species and encourage their further spread in mountainous areas.
Abdullah Muhammad +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Physical activity promotes health, and physical activity done outdoors in nature may be particularly beneficial. We conducted two randomized studies to examine the implementation of a winter hiking intervention and whether this intervention ...
Stephanie Anzman-Frasca +3 more
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Thru-hiking and Why People Do It [PDF]
, 2018 Thru-hiking is a modern leisure activity that attracts people during transitional states in their lives or is an activity people engage in to force such a transition.
Crowley, Richard
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Hikers’ Motives for Choosing a Hiking Trail - Evidence from the Czech Landscape Protected Areas
SHS Web of Conferences, 2014 The article aims to extent the previous studies dealing with hiking and hikers’ characteristics by focusing on hikers’ motives for coming to nature based recreation areas and their motives for choosing a hiking trail.
Antoušková Michaela +2 more
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