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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

An examination of sport tourists' profiles and motives as for visiting Langkawi [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Understanding the peoples’ motives is important in promoting tourism, since it provides a better explanation of the motive behind the motive behavior and enable tourism planner and marketer to predict tourists’ actions.
Hamdan, Nurul Shahida, Yusof, Aminuddin
core   +1 more source

Sport as a driver for local development and sustainable tourism

open access: yesRevue Internationale Animation, Territoires et Pratiques Socioculturelles, 2017
The paper analyses the relationship between sport and tourism. Starting from the literature on sport tourism and tourism sport, we examine the impact of a sporting event in terms of tourist flow in relation to the provision of sporting facilities in the ...
Anna Maria Pioletti
doaj   +1 more source

Nature-Based Tourism Businesses in Colorado: Interpreting Environmental Ethics and Responsible Behavior [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Tourism businesses operate from a primarily economic-centric point of view, but nature-based tourism businesses are also acutely aware of the need to sustain the natural resource that attracts the client to their outdoor recreation service. A preliminary
Gaede, Diane   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Active sport tourism in Poland: Environmental conditions and motivational aspects

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Geography, 2017
Active sport tourism has been identified, along with event sport tourism and nostalgia sport tourism, as a category of sport tourism. Active sport tourists travel to participate in sport – being physically active is the main purpose of their travels ...
Rajmund Tomik   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Olympic legacy and cultural tourism: Exploring the facets of Athens' Olympic heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This study examines the effects of the Olympic Games on Athens’ cultural tourism and the city’s potential to leverage the Olympic legacy in synergy with its rich heritage in order to enhance its tourism product during the post-Games period.
Alexiou C.   +36 more
core   +2 more sources

Sport tourism

open access: yes, 2015
O desporto e o turismo evoluíram através de processos dinâmicos, adaptativos e transformacionais resultantes da melhoria da qualidade de vida e da conquista do tempo livre das populações para o qual contribuiu a Revolução Industrial e a consequente emergência da sociedade do lazer e consumo.
Nunes, Paulo   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

An Analysis of how Self-Efficacy Relates to the Driver’s of the Active Sport Tourist

open access: yes, 2011
The active sport tourist is a subset within the tourism industry that can be further analyzed to understand this type of traveler. The driver’s of such a tourist include Risk Theory, Individual’s view, Geographical Approach, Role Theory, Consumer ...
Grimes, Debey
core   +1 more source

Computer assisted self and peer assessment: applications, challenges and opportunities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper discusses self and peer assessment (SPA) using CASPAR (Computer Assisted Self and Peer Assessment Ratings) – a software tool designed to aid the administration of SPA.
Lugosi, Peter
core   +1 more source

Meta‐analysis fails to show any correlation between protein abundance and ubiquitination changes

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We analyzed over 50 published proteomics datasets to explore the relationship between protein levels and ubiquitination changes across multiple experimental conditions and biological systems. Although ubiquitination is often associated with protein degradation, our analysis shows that changes in ubiquitination do not globally correlate with changes in ...
Nerea Osinalde   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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