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Economic impact of cultural events

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2004
The phenomenon of events can hardly be described as a new one.  The aim of this paper is to determine the economic benefits of three major cultural events in South Africa to the host community.
M Saayman, A Saayman
doaj   +1 more source

The road to happiness : from mood during leisure trips and activities to satisfaction with life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Over the past years an increasing number of studies have investigated the link between travel and subjective well-being (SWB), often focussing on the effects of trip characteristics on satisfaction with particular trips.
De Vos, Jonas   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Распределение тяжелых металлов в донных отложениях Феодосийского залива [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Leisure travel makes up a very significant part of daily travel and therefore needs to be considered in any travel demand management or general land use and transportation policy. Yet, research into leisure mobility has tended to ignore important aspects
Коновалов, С.К.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Operationalising Sufficiency in an Organisational Context: A Systematic Literature Review

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Efficiency‐led sustainability is important but often fails to deliver absolute reductions in resource use, leaving organisations exposed to rebound effects. What remains underexplored is how sufficiency, the strategic limitation of consumption and resource use, is operationalised within organisational contexts.
Shahrokh Nikou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation [PDF]

open access: yes
Almost all previous studies on public policy under relative consumption concerns have ignored the role of leisure for status comparisons. Inspired by Veblen (1899), this paper considers a two-type optimal income tax model, where people care about their ...
Aronsson, Thomas   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Pleasures in Socialism: Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This book is a significant contribution to the studies of everyday life in Eastern Europe under communist rule. It is the third in a series of volumes edited and written with Susan E.
Crowley, David, Reid, Susan Emily
core  

'Sexercise': Working out heterosexuality in Jane Fonda’s fitness books [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Leisure Studies, 30(2), 237 - 255, 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02614367.2010.523837.This paper explores the connection ...
Aitchison C.   +65 more
core   +1 more source

Determinants of Customer Eco‐Friendly Goods Consumption in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the key attributes of eco‐friendly products in the hospitality and tourism industries and examines the impact on consumer behavior through a three‐study approach. Study I utilized principal component analysis and identified five key factors: price relevance, external charm, visual attention, product symbolism, and ...
Jiyoung Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

City Beautiful [PDF]

open access: yes
The City Beautiful movement, which in the early 20th century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression.
Albert Saiz, Gerald A. Carlino
core   +3 more sources

Relationships between Body Mass Index and Social Support, Physical Activity, and Eating Habits in African American University Students

open access: yesAsian Nursing Research, 2012
Purpose: We aimed to examine the relationships between obesity and the level of social support for healthy behaviors, amount of physical activity (PA), and dietary habits in African Americans.
Wi-Young So, PhD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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