Using semi-structured interviews, this phenomenological study explored how a youth basketball program promotes peace amongst traditionally conflicting groups. Subjects included current and former Managing and Program Directors who have had direct contact with the youth participa…
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This study focuses on the socio-historical analysis of a model of sport organization: the basket-ball federation from Senegal (FSBB). The strategic model of Crozier and Friedberg (1977) has been chosen to investigate the evolution of this organism from 1960 to the year 2000. A l…
This dissertation examines the making of tourism spaces at Luxor, Egypt. Through ethnography and archival research, it explores the production of tourism enclaves as spaces of segregation. This production of 'enclaving' is complex and synergistically realized and resisted by dif…
Le tourisme est un secteur d'activités qui, par son envergure, permet d'assurer la croissance de l'économie des pays récepteurs (Alami, 2004). De ce fait, le Maroc a mis en oeuvre un dispositif stratégique global destiné à améliorer la compétitivité des acteurs hôteliers nationa…
Adossée à Dakar, la Médina est une commune de 2,5 km2 où vivent près de 100 000 personnes dans 4000 concessions. Cette densité humaine affecte les aires collectives traditionnelles, domestiques ou publiques, d'hommes et de femmes qui se sentaient soudés par une histoire commune …
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the DonJoy Drytex Wraparound PlaymakerTM functional knee brace on the balance and proprioception, velocity, and agility of uninjured female athletes. Methods. Subjects were required to perform a 40-yard dash, a T-…
The main goal of this dissertation is to build ontology for tourism. Ontological semantics is an approach of Natural Language Processing (NLP) which takes advantage of the new technologies in computational semantics in the 1990s. Ontological semantics provides the tools to analy…
For years, the gambling industry has been gaining popularity among a variety of countries and communities for its contribution to tourism development and thus, to the economy. At the same time, the addictive nature of the gambling activities poses questions for society's future …
Las fiestas tradicionales o patronales, han sido uno de los atractivos turísticos más indiscutibles a lo largo del Siglo XX. En España, la relevancia internacional de algunos de estos eventos ha fomentado la popularidad del país, y lo ha potenciado como destino turístico. En el …
National parks are made up of many unique and beautiful places that offer visitorschances for recreation, enjoyment of natural resources, and education. One main way parkseducate visitors about the parks and conservation is through conversation. Rangers parksreach out to visitor…
Setúbal é uma cidade com problemas de cheias e inundações decorrentes da sua situação geográfica e é por esse motivo que procuram-se alternativas para amenizar e proteger a cidade contra os riscos. Esta área foi alvo de vários planos que procuraram resolver os problemas, princip…
A presente investigação aborda um tipo de turismo que tem vindo a registar um crescimento significativo nos destinos ocidentais em geral desde a década de 2010: o turismo Halal . Tendencialmente, os turistas Halal procuram destinos turísticos onde existe uma predominância religi…
O Centro é uma região com um enorme potencial turístico, estando cada vez mais associada a projetos de desenvolvimento sustentável no Turismo em Espaço Rural (Gomes, 2015). O Turismo em Espaço Rural (TER) tem recebido mais atenção de pesquisadores, políticos e gerentes, associad…
O turismo de eventos tem vindo, nos últimos anos, a assumir uma importância crescente para os diversos destinos turísticos. Na atualidade a relevância dos eventos evidencia-se em termos sociais e económicos, na medida em que contribuem para a animação e coesão social de uma cida…
Embedded in the faded history of the musical Barbarin family are three factors deeply important to the history of New Orleans jazz. First, that the Barbarin’s musical success was rooted in the power of their extensive family and kinship networks. And in particular the ways those…
In Nigeria, the rhetoric surrounding football focuses on how important the game is to national unity and how the rare moment when Nigerians feel a unity of purpose is when their national team is playing. How did football, a completely foreign cultural practice, come to become so…
Recreation has been a major force in enhancing the quality of life in a modern society. The provider must try to fulfil the requirements of the recreational users and has to focus on the quality of the products it delivers. As a recreational destination the National Park must of…
The purpose of this study was to assess the attractiveness of Langkawi Island, Malaysia, as a tourist destination for domestic visitors and to segment the visitor market by using visitors' perceptions of the availability of different types of attractions on the island and the im…
During the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of young Israelis, after completing their military service, journeyed to South America or Asia. These journeys become a common pattern in Israel, and the travelers are known as backpackers. This study examines the phenomenon in …