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Being “outdoors” in a new country: associations between immigrant characteristics, outdoor recreation activities, and settlement satisfaction in Canada Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Ulises Charles-Rodriguez, Richard Larouche
Many immigrants in Canada experience rapid mental health deterioration as they integrate into their host country. Participation in outdoor recreation, and natural environments at large, have been s...
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The effect of government-public relationships on residents’ support in mega sport events: a moderating effect of government crisis response Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sungkyung Kim, Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Do Young Pyun
The study seeks to investigate the role of host governments’ policy public relations and crisis response strategies in shaping residents’ support for mega sport events. Specifically, the research f...
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Athletes as destination ambassadors: understanding the role of athlete attachment and sport involvement on country-of-origin’s image and intention to visit Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Christopher Hautbois, Rui Biscaia, Mathieu Djaballah
The purpose of this study is to examine (1) the effects of athlete attachment on the athlete’s country-of-origin (COO) image and visit intentions, and (2) how athlete attachment is influenced by in...
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“Ten Bucks for yoga and a beer in a cool vibey spot”: exploring motivations for LTPA at craft breweries Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Alana N. Seaman, Lindsey Schroeder, Laura Morris, Kayla Hines, Michele Abee
To attract consumers in an increasingly competitive marketplace, many breweries are now offering leisure time physical activity (LTPA) equipment, clubs, and events on-site. Given the growing number...
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Post-pandemic outdoor music festival consumption behaviour intention: an integrative approach Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Zhen Su, Shuchen Lai, Meng Zhang
This study investigates the factors influencing consumption behaviour at outdoor music festivals in the post-pandemic era. Utilising the Stimuli-Organism-Response and Motivation-Opportunity-Ability...
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Consumer engagement on social media in the sport context: a scoping review Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Yuanyuan Cao, Hirotaka Matsuoka
The goal of this study was to address the question: ‘What sport marketing research has been conducted on customer engagement on social media until now, and what could be future avenues for research...
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Designing outdoor fitness areas for older adults: a conjoint analysis study Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Chahana Paudel, Anna Timperio, Jo Salmon, Venurs Loh, Benedicte Deforche, Jenny Veitch
This study aimed to examine the relative importance of micro-level design features of outdoor fitness areas preferred by older adults and whether preferences varied according to gender, park accomp...
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Social participation of the older sexual minority population: CLSA data Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Wook Yang, Shelley L. Craig, Carles Muntaner, John A. E. Anderson, Lori E. Ross
Despite the growing ageing population in Canada, limited efforts have been made to understand the role of ageing in sexual minority research. The term sexual minority refers to people that do not i...
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Flying casual: a serious leisure career playing X-Wing: The Miniatures Game Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Justin B. Hopkins
In this autoethnography, I describe and analyse my serious leisure career playing X-Wing: The Miniatures Game. I focus on the beginning and the end of that career, as Stebbins (2020) has called for...
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Exploring the experience of natural green space among South Asian Muslim people in the UK Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Mohammed Hamza, Annette Stride, Thomas Quarmby
Visiting Natural Green Spaces (NGS) is an important lifestyle factor that contributes to quality of life. Whilst NGS can be used to combat health issues, many of which are experienced by South Asia...
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The experiences of nomadic sex worker tourists Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Stephen Pratt, Wantanee Suntikul
Practices of sex tourism are more diverse than the stereotype of ‘foreign man pays local woman for sex while on holiday abroad’. There has been little research into sex workers who travel to countr...
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Using cell phone usage data to explore the spatial distribution of virtual leisure and the impact on reality leisure Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Lei Wu, Huixia Deng, Jinpeng Hu, Qiang Niu, Xiaoqian Liang
This study aimed to determine the geospatial distribution of Virtual Leisure (VL) users and the impact of VL on users’ reality leisure behaviours. The empirical analysis was conducted using cell ph...
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Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Claire Lomax, David O’Byrne, Georgios A. Antonopoulos
The Olympic Games (OG) are renowned for their prestige and socio-economic benefits; however, they have suffered criticism for their environmental practices. Unlike existing studies on the matter, w...
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“I don’t want to get in anyone’s way”: mapping girl skateboarders’ navigation of place and power in skate spaces Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Lyndsey Stoodley, Carrie Paechter, Michael Keenan, Chris Lawton
Skateboarding is an informal activity with a relatively low cost of entry, and a range of potential practice grounds. Without formal gatekeepers, it is potentially inclusive on social, economic, an...
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Stolen focus: why you can’t pay attention Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Geoff Nichols
Published in Leisure Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Sport and physical activity in catastrophic environments Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Alessio Norrito
Published in Leisure Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The contribution of serious leisure qualities to passion in the context of collegiate sport club participation Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 KoFan Lee, Hung-Ling (Stella) Liu, John P. Bentley
This study aims to explore the relationship between dimensions of collegiate sport club experiences and the development of harmonious and obsessive passions. A measure of serious leisure qualities ...
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National football leagues as a source of soft power Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Ricardo Gúdel, Emilio Hernández-Correa, Laura Heredero, Javier Pajares
This study seeks to determine if the development of a country’s national football league is significantly correlated with its soft power. Moreover, this research aims to provide a better understand...
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Masculinity, Intersectionality and Identity: Why Boys (Don’t) Dance Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Hongsheng Sui
Published in Leisure Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Same-sex romantic cruise experiences: the moderating effect of the personal openness trait Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Jose Weng Chou Wong, Ivan Ka Wai Lai
The aim of this study is to evaluate the romantic cruise experiences that influence same-sex travellers’ satisfaction with cruise travel. The results of a face-to-face survey on a cruise ship on th...
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‘Living, that’s what we do’: an ethnographic account of time and leisure in the British asylum system Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Edanur Yazici
For many, wage labour dictates the rhythm of everyday life, delineating hours of rest, recreation, and labour. For people seeking asylum – most of whom have no right to work and subsist on support ...
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Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Argyro Elisavet Manoli, Kevin Dixon, Georgios A. Antonopoulos
With the field of cryptocurrency in sports being primarily discussed from the material and financial standpoint of industry producers, in our study, we conduct a qualitative exploration into the co...
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How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 L. Gruas, C. Perrin-Malterre, O. Hoibian
As more and more people seek out new experiences in mountain regions, ski touring has been gaining increasing popularity in France for the past 15 years. While there are concerns about the immediat...
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Navigating grief: an autoethnographic tale of open water swimming and loss Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Emma Boocock
This paper aims to show how using blue spaces has enabled the author to rebuild parts of herself again following the death of her father. Few studies have provided personal narratives of the influe...
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Casual walking in urban tourism destinations through the lens of stimulus–organism–response (S–O–R) and hierarchy of walking needs theories Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Yim King Penny Wan
Applying the stimulus – organism – response (S – O – R) and hierarchy of walking needs theories, this exploratory study examined the stimuli that triggered tourists to take a casual walk in an urba...
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Awakening travel intentions by food travel vlogs: far from the sky and close to the eyes Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Xiaobin Ma, Jinhe Zhang, Yi Sun, Peijia Wang, Ruien Tang
Food vlogs are a new trend in destination marketing, but there is limited cognition of food tourism motivates potential consumers to travel. We used content analysis and natural language processing...
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Cultural tourism experiences and children with disabilities: are Italian museums ready? Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Martha Friel, Angelo Miglietta, Vittorio Ottaviani
In recent years, research on accessible and inclusive tourism has grown considerably. However, the target of families with children with disabilities and their experiences in the cultural and museu...
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What do we talk about when we talk about leisure? Conceptualising leisure through the lived experiences of vocational pupils Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Saan Van Elsen, Griet Roets, Lieve Bradt
By adopting a unique approach that allowed participants to define leisure from their own perspective, this study employed semi-structured and photo-elicitation interviews to gain a deeper understan...
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Running alone or in groups? Social capital and quality of life considerations Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Kyriaki (Kiki) Kaplanidou, Shang-Chun Ma
This study examines how running participant exercise behaviours such as running alone or in groups moderate the relationship between social capital and quality of life (QoL) along with how demograp...
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Correction Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-11-26
Published in Leisure Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Motivations for domestic overnight travel by Finnish disc golfers: a serious-leisure perspective Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Otto Eskelinen, Brian Garrod, Erose Sthapit, Jarno Suni
This study examines the domestic overnight travel motivations of Finnish disc golfers, with a specific focus on the concept of serious leisure. Data gathered from 989 Finnish disc golfers were divi...
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Going out before the COVID-19 pandemic protected psychological health during the first lockdown: a model based on social capital theory Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Mattia Vacchiano, Riccardo Valente
This paper shows that greater engagement in offline leisure activities before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic – such as going to bars, restaurants and meeting friends – protected psychologica...
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Family support and life satisfaction of older adults: the mediating and moderating role of leisure activities and health Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Preeti Tarkar, Deepika Pandoi, Mohammad Asif, Amar Johri
The aim of this study is to explore the role of leisure activities in the life satisfaction of older people. In addition, the mediating and moderating effects of leisure activities and health on fa...
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“Iranians on one side, immigrants on the other!”: socio-cultural constraints to sport participation amongst Afghan women migrants and refugees Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Catherine Phipps, Ali Afrouzeh, Mohammad Pourkiani, Shakiba Oftadeh-Moghadam, Nasrollah Sajjadi
In this article, we consider the sport experiences (as a form of active leisure) of Afghan women migrants and refugees who reside in Iran. In line with previous leisure constraint models, we theori...
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Exploring esport players’ motivation, experiences, and well-being Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Kyle. J. Mechelin, Bingjie Liu-Lastres
This study aimed to explore esports fans’ motivation, experiences and well-being. Guided by the serious leisure perspective and self-determination theory, this study focused on the community of Sup...
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Serious leisure and sociolinguistics: English-speaking homebrewers in South Korea and their leisure speech community Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Aaron W. Pooley, Lawrence J. Bendle
Increasing global mobilities bring more non-native speakers into new countries where they face obstacles in establishing successful acculturation and leisure lifestyles. Leisure and acculturation a...
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New age spectacles: Understanding the semiotics of cricket through Roland Barthes’ ‘The World of Wrestling’ Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Surya Nandana, SP Dhanavel
Though written in 1957, Roland Barthes’ ‘The World of Wrestling’ from Mythologies resonates with sports even today. As a choreographed fight between a pre-assigned hero and villain, wrestling plays...
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The radicality and cultural significance of the sweats in Trinidad and Tobago Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Kola Adeosun
The sweat, meaning to sweat, is a moniker attached to prearranged but unorganised and informal sport and physical activity within local communities in Trinidad and Tobago. Explained as a culturally...
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Emotions and leisure: new insights and perspectives Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 David S. Scott, Thomas Fletcher
Published in Leisure Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Māori households assembling precarious leisure Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Ahnya Martin, Darrin Hodgetts, Pita King, Denise Blake
Many members of the precariat in Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ) struggle to access resources for leisure. This article draws on four interview waves with five precariat Māori (Indigenous peoples of Aote...
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“Vertical drinking” in the night-time economy: alcohol licencing and proxies for “uncivilised” drinking bodies Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Jed Meers
‘Vertical drinking’ is a longstanding concept in alcohol licencing decision-making and the literature on night-time leisure. As the term implies, it concerns drinking alcohol standing up. The propo...
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The paradoxes and pragmatics of digital leisure in later life Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Riitta Hänninen, Viivi Korpela, Laura Pajula
In previous studies, older adults (65+) are commonly regarded as a heterogeneous group of technology users who do not utilise digital technologies as frequently or comprehensively as younger age co...
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Horse racing and the growth of hashtag activism Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Mucha Mkono, Aaron Tham, Karen Hughes, Stella Echentille
The Melbourne Cup is Australia’s pinnacle horse racing event, attracting more than 80,000 physical attendees each year (pre-COVID-19), as well as numerous others watching via live broadcasts around...
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Grand travel as a new spring of informal intergenerational learning (IGL): Filipino grandchildren’s emotional experiences during family leisure Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Allan B. de Guzman, Ana Sheirina G. Antonio, Margareth A. Gatbonton, Kiara Mae F. Romasanta, Patricia Dominique D. Tolentino
Cognisant of the thinness of the knowledge base on the dynamics of intergenerational leisure involving grandchildren and their grandparents, this transcendental phenomenological study explored the ...
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Arts festivals as polysystems: a case analysis of Morocco music and film festivals Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Youssef Ait Kerroum, Khadija Anasse
In today’s fluid culture, fluid economy and fluid tourism, arts festivals fulfil various and sometimes conflicting functions, but surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to this issue...
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‘They’ve just never been involved in it’: what senior athletes think about older people who do not participate in sport Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Valentina Cannella, Rodrigo Serrat, Feliciano Villar, Adam Brian Evans
To date, despite the many recognised benefits of participation in sport, many older people do not participate in it. This study explored the opinions about barriers to participating in sport among ...
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Examining the discursive production and deployment of diversity and inclusion in a UK-wide outdoor organisation Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Linda Allin, Zoe Avner, John William Hayton
This study draws on a Foucauldian lens to examine how diversity and inclusion are produced, understood, experienced, and managed within the context of a UK wide outdoor non-profit organisation that...
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Relationships between digital leisure and happiness among international students during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining a mediation model Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Liang-Chih Chang, John Dattilo, Fei-Hsin Huang
Digital leisure may help international students experience happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it is unclear how digital leisure promotes happiness. To address this area of limited res...
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‘My mum just wants me out of the house’: the leisure lifestyles of white-working class adolescents Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Andrew, J. Scattergood
The sports participation rates of British adults remain strongly influenced by their social class background, with those from the bottom of the social class hierarchy significantly less likely to t...
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Switching channels: investigating the push, pull, and mooring effects of moving from cable TV to OTT services Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 P. Sridevi, Nandukrishna T. Ajith
In recent years, Over-the-Top (OTT) streaming services have become increasingly popular as a form of digital leisure, triggering a significant shift of users from traditional television. This resea...
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Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Yuta Takiguchi, Mie Matsui, Mariko Kikutani, Kota Ebina
Performing single leisure activity simultaneously requires mental, physical, and social effort. This research aimed to represent the extent of the three components using numerical scores and examin...
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Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 John Flynn, David P. Carter, Leandra H. Hernández, Garrett Hutson
ABSTRACT Climbing in the U.S. resembles other ‘alternative’ and ‘lifestyle’ sports in that it has long been an exclusionary leisure pursuit. Whiteness, a history of land dispossession, and settler colonialism have reinforced exclusive boundaries to the sport through a ‘hierarchy of participation’. Formal moves from climbing advocacy organisations, gyms, and brands have increased diversity and justice
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Bouncing back or staying inactive? The social inequality in sport participation before, during and after the COVID-pandemic Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-08-26 Remco Hoekman, Malou Grubben, Gerbert Kraaykamp
ABSTRACT This contribution addresses the development of educational and financial inequality in sport participation in the Netherlands over the course of the COVID-pandemic. More specifically, we deal with the issue whether increased educational and financial inequality during the COVID-pandemic is temporary or becomes permanent after relaxation of the COVID-measures. We expected lower educated and
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Understanding tourists’ experiences at war heritage sites in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam: a netnographic analysis of TripAdvisor reviews Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Tuyen Dai Quang, Nhat Minh Dang Vo, Hoang Van Nguyen, Quynh Xuan Thi Nguyen, Hiram Ting, Tan Vo-Thanh
ABSTRACT This article examines tourists’ experiences based on a content analysis of 23,640 online TripAdvisor reviews on the Cu Chi tunnels, one of the most well-known dark tourist sites in Vietnam. Using the netnography approach, we found that most online reviews are from inbound tourists. We identified several factors that impact tourists’ perceptions, including tourists’ underground experience,
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Changes in adult leisure-time physical activity during and after COVID-19 restrictions in Colorado Springs, Colorado Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Nicole E. Odell, Paige Whitney, Joey A. Lee
ABSTRACT The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic may have changed leisure-time physical activity (PA) behaviour, as many ‘Stay-at-Home’ policies mandated closure of indoor recreational facilities. This study examined changes in adult leisure-time PA in more and less active groups during and after COVID-19 restrictions in a relatively active region where outdoor PA was not limited. Self-reported
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The community ‘living room’ – social interactions and social capital in a community activity in the Netherlands Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Esther Peperkamp, D.E.G.T. Haumahu
ABSTRACT Community activities are believed to contribute to the cultivation of social capital and social cohesion. For this study, a community ‘living room’, a community activity for lonely, elderly people in a mid-sized Dutch city, was studied. Interviews and observations showed that the community activity was experienced positively, and that social interactions in this particular setting were much
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A systematic review of the wellbeing benefits of being active through leisure and fitness centres Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Leila Heckel, Rochelle Eime, Adam Karg, Heath McDonald, Carleigh Yeomans, Ian O’Boyle
ABSTRACT The aim of this systematic review was to provide an overview of the scientific evidence for psychosocial wellbeing benefits for individuals who are active through settings like leisure centres, gymnasiums or swimming pools. The level of physical activity required to achieve wellbeing outcomes through centre usage was a focal point. Nine electronic databases (AUSPORT, SPORTDiscus, EMBASE, MEDLINE
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Exploring oppositionality and support of Counter-Strike redditors for the World ESports Association Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Heiko Heidenreich, Geoff Dickson, Nicolas Strohfuß, Markus Kurscheidt
ABSTRACT This study explores sentiments towards the World ESports Association (WESA) within a Counter-Strike Reddit community. Esports communities have not embraced the various self-proclaimed domestic and international esports governing organisations and are notoriously hostile to any organisation perceived as exploiting them. Our sentiment analysis was based on a review of 5359 comments (distributed
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Representational affectivities in nature-based leisure: the case of game-angling Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Tom Mordue, Oliver Moss
ABSTRACT We explore affective registers that characterise game-angling, particularly fly-fishing, through a critical engagement with the discursive and visual strategies employed in a key game-angling periodical, Trout and Salmon magazine, across a period of sixty years. We examine how angling brands and textual utterances evoke the affective and emotional states of becoming and being an angler, and
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Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’ Leisure Studies (IF 2.531) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Amonté L. Martin, Alison E. Adams, Taylor V. Stein
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the recreational experiences of African American residents in Hillsborough County, Florida at varied levels: institutional, recreational, and personal. To investigate the intricacy of perceptions and experiences among African Americans in the context of outdoor recreation, the first author used qualitative methods to provide in-depth investigation into