Browsing Colleges and Schools by Department "Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences"
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(2009-05-15)Landscape change induced by population growth and urban development is impacting the ecosystem goods and services provided by open space, which is essential to supporting many urban and rural populations. Conserving open ...
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(2018-10-16)This study examines the intimate relationships that exist between residents and tourists (i.e., based on residents’ emotional solidarity (ES) with tourists) from attitudes to actual behavior in ultimately explaining ...
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(2011-08-08)To help online trip planners, some online travel agencies and travel service providers have adopted travel recommender systems. Although these systems are expected to support travelers in complex decision-making processes, ...
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(2013-04-08)The availability of clean water is fundamental to the survival of all living things. Humans have altered fresh water cycles in a number of ways that affect both water quality and quantity. This has led to a global water ...
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(2018-07-30)The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the determinants and outcomes of service recovery and the utility of Rawls’ (1971) justice theory with respect to service recovery in a hospitality context. ...
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(2014-07-30)Tourism is often a group-based activity, but tourism decision-making research has primarily focused on individual decision making and who makes decisions in families. However, there are numerous situations in which individuals ...
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(2009-05-15)Tourism in the rural areas of developing countries is expanding at a rapid pace and is often a primary means of income in these areas. While the WTO (World Tourism Organization) and local developers encourage the expansion ...
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(2009-05-15)The previous research have found that consumers' choices of vacations may be significantly influenced by mental imagery processing, which is considered to be high elaboration cognitive processing. Mental imagery is defined ...
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(2012-10-19)Community involvement has been promoted and studied in diverse disciplines including planning, geography, community development, and others. In the tourism field, the shift from conventional tourism toward sustainable forms ...
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(2009-05-15)This study proposes an alternative travel decision making model and situates its arguments in the Motivation-Opportunity-Ability (MOA) theoretical construct. The MOA model suggests that motivation, opportunity, and ability ...
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(2011-02-22)Since 1989, the United States Federal Government and the State of Texas have targeted water and wastewater infrastructure development spending in the colonias to improve access to safe, reliable and adequate water supplies ...
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(2013-12-06)The relationship between adolescents and their parents has a significant impact on their positive development into adulthood. This study analyzes data from the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR) in order to determine ...
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(2013-03-28)This research was initiated from two questions: what personality San Antonio has as a tourist destination despite its being an inanimate object and what relationships there are among destination personality, self-congruity, ...
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(2016-04-22)This study examined the effects of two sets of event staging factors (“technical” and “artistic”) on the quality of experience (delight, perceived value, and intrinsically motivated fast thinking) of participants at a ...
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(2012-07-16)Parks provide a multitude of benefits to communities that, while intuitive and easy to describe, are difficult to quantify. With public park departments being increasingly scrutinized in terms of dollars spent rather than ...
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(2010-10-12)Education is touted as one of the most effective and inexpensive measures for reducing water consumption for major cities. Coupled with additional water reducing strategies this education can have a significant impact. ...
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(2016-04-29)Municipal water use is the fastest growing sector of water use in Texas, representing over three million acre-feet of water demand in 2060 according to the 2012 State Water Plan. Landscapes often receive more water than ...
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(2021-04-01)This study evaluated the effects of a camp counselor resume-building program and evening reflection experiences on intention to return and intention to recommend serving as a camp counselor among potential or former camp ...
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(2021-11-09)A proposed model of mindfulness during environmental interpretation was tested. Mindfulness was proposed to result from a) mindfulness strategies utilized during interpretation, and b) brief mindfulness instructions prior ...
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(2012-11-12)This study examines the personalization of shown travel destination visual images using professional photography upon travel motivations, feelings, and purchase intentions of consumers in the online environment. The research ...