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Leisure studies education: Historical trends and pedagogical futures in the United Kingdom and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper is an attempt to stimulate debate about the decline of leisure studies and the rise of courses and subject fields defined by sport, events, tourism management.
Aitchison   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Visual responses of patients with generalized anxiety disorder who cycling in the virtual sportscapes with different tree cover densities

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
The tree density of virtual sportscape is the main factor that determines the benefits that generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) patients can obtain when they exercise with virtual environment.
Tsai-Chiao Wang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Effects of Green Practices on Sustainability in Urban Hotels in Kenya [PDF]

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
Adoption of green practices has been touted as the panacea for sustainability in many economic sectors. With urban hotels constrained in their adoption, this study sought to determine the extent to which urban hotels in Kenya had adopted green practices ...
Elizabeth KAMUNZYU   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pagans and Satan and Goths, Oh My: Dark Leisure as Communicative Agency and Communal Identity on the Fringes of the Modern Goth Scene [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Goth music's cultural terrain has been extensively mapped in the first decade of this century. Through a dark leisure framework, the present article examines the way in which parts of the Goth scene embraced paganism and, latterly, Satanism, as actual ...
Spracklen, B, Spracklen, K
core   +1 more source

Human rights, leisure and leisure studies [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Leisure Journal, 2015
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, endorsed by the United Nations in 1948, includes the right to leisure time, to cultural participation and to travel. While the idea of human rights permeates many aspects of national and international life, it has not permeated the field of leisure studies to any great extent.
openaire   +1 more source

Who spends and who does not: Clustering visitors at a national arts festival

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Business Management, 2011
The Grahamstown National Arts Festival is the oldest National Arts Festival in South Africa and was founded in 1974. This celebration of the arts takes place over a period of eleven days with the main festival running over eight days, which also makes it
M. Saayman, A. Saayman, E. Slabbert
doaj   +1 more source

The Challenges and Realities of E-Learning during COVID-19: The Case of University Sport and Physical Education

open access: yesChallenges, 2022
E-learning quickly became a crucial tool for universities and other higher education institutions during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The field of sport and physical education (PE) was no exception.
Louis Moustakas, Denise Robrade
doaj   +1 more source

The Effects of a Weighted Football Intervention on Ball Velocity of a Standard Football Place-Kick among Elite Gaelic Football Goalkeepers: A Single-Subject Designed Study

open access: yesSports, 2022
Weighted football place-kicking acutely enhances the ball velocity (BV) of subsequent standard football place-kicks. However, there is a dearth of research examining the long-term effects of such interventions, with less evidence in existence among elite
Sam Jermyn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The socio-economic impact of Africa’s oldest marine park

open access: yesKoedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2010
South African National Parks (SANParks) plays a major role in the tourism industry and has three primary functions, namely to conserve biodiversity, to create tourism and recreational opportunities and to build strong community relations.
Susan Oberholzer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Speaking the Unspoken: Racism, Sport and Maori

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
In this paper, we argue that the intersection of two key ideologies – New Zealand’s purported history of good race relations, and the positive contribution sport is believed to make to racial equality – has created an environment in which it is difficult
Holly Raima Hippolite, Toni Bruce
doaj   +1 more source

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