Browsing by Department "Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences"
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(2021-11-05)The purposes of this study were to (a) examine if Texas 4-H alumni perform better academically than the population of Texas post-secondary education students, with respect to the four Texas Higher Education Coordinating ...
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(2019-07-22)Energy expenditure and subjective experiences of college students participating in action ball were examined through two studies. In Study 1, six students participated in action ball while using a portable metabolic analyzer. ...
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(2014-08-06)This study advanced knowledge of the measurement properties of the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP). The FLAP is a sixteen-item index based on the Core and Balance Model of Family Functioning. This study assessed ...
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(2012-02-14)Airports are places where people have the potential to experience either satisfaction or frustration, and marketing and tourism scholars have argued that customer satisfaction is one of the primary goals of airports. ...
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(2017-07-25)Image has consistently been found to be a crucial determinant of tourists’ intentions to visit destinations, and negative misperceptions can have devastating results to tourism arrival numbers. Yet, scant empirical evidence ...
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(2014-07-11)All-inclusive resorts (hereafter abbreviated AIR) have a long history of contributing to tourism revenue leakage from host economies. Antalya, with its high percentage of AIRs, is a prime tourist destination in Turkey that ...
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(2012-02-14)Pricing strategies (e.g. yield management) in the tourism industry, known as non-transparent pricing, have raised fairness issues, and more recently, new pricing schemes in the airline industry have been controversial ...
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(2014-05-02)A retrospective qualitative study was designed to gain insight into the degree to which an emotional attachment to place assisted in the construction of the personal identities among military dependent children. The premise ...
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(2014-12-16)Wasting water by excessive irrigation of urban residential landscapes is a ubiquitous problem. By reducing irrigation in excess of plant water needs, homeowners and cities save substantial quantities water. Although water ...
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(2010-01-16)Understanding how inputs influence program outcomes is a key step in designing and implementing quality youth programs to support positive development. While developmental processes are assumed to be universal for all ...
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(2010-07-14)Although there has been a large focus on dark tourism in recent times, there is still limited information on the motivation of consumption and the type of experience that is derived from the visit to a dark tourism site. ...
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(2013-07-18)This study used Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of practice and analyzed African Americans’ under-representation at parks and in outdoor recreation. It focused on Cedar Hill State Park (CHSP) located in Cedar Hill, Texas and ...
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(2010-01-14)Despite a substantial volume of research on identity in the social and behavioral sciences, identity theory has existed on the margins of the leisure literature and contributed to the understanding of leisure behavior only ...
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(2015-12-08)The economic restructuring that occurred during the 1970s due to globalization and social change ushered in significant changes for rural communities. As a result, tourism became a popular method within economic development ...
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(2012-10-19)This study examines the perceptions of citizenship of youth involved in a community civic engagement program. The UP-BEAT Youth Health Leadership program trained youth participants in public speaking, technology, youth ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation research was conducted to help understand this under-researched area particularly in the field of leisure and tourism. It is argued in this study that the celebrity fandom is a novel form of leisure/tourism ...
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(2009-05-15)Many view tourism as a tool for community development. Especially in the rural areas experiencing economic hardships, tourism often is considered an instrument for revitalization of a local economy helping to improve quality ...
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(2020-11-24)Sport is the most prevalent out-of-school time activity for adolescents (Sabo & Veliz, 2008) and is often touted as a context to promote positive youth development. However, the evidence for whether sport promotes character ...
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(2010-07-14)In the era of advanced communication and transportation technology, immigrants and their descendents can be reunited with their ancestral land from where they or their forebears once were displaced. Visiting the ancestral ...
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(2022-04-14)Leisure is an important aspect of life because many people find meaning and purpose through leisure. College students, who are experiencing dramatic changes across the transition from late adolescence and into young ...