According to the theory of tournaments prizes encourage greater effort and affect tournament selection. Increasing the difference between prizes increases effort and induces contestants to self-sort into separate tournaments based on their ability. Increasing the absolute level …
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This research presents a study of six national gymnastics organisations in terms of their structures and written policies to manage the sport; the countries involved in the study are: Australia, Ecuador, France, Indonesia, Italia and New Zealand. The study focused on the regulat…
National integration has been the main focus of development in Malaysia. Typical of a young and developing country, this political aspiration has long been pursued from an economic standpoint. This study demonstrates that economic development, by itself, is inadequate in fosteri…
This is the first study that examines the current as well as the future of sport and physical education in Jordan as envisioned by Jordanian educators. The central research question asks how Jordanian educators view both the present and future situations of sport and physical ed…
In the United States, faith has often been expressed by means of popular and consumer culture. For instance, since the late eighteenth century, Americans have integrated devotion and recreation by frequenting sites of value-laden amusement. “Holy Hills” analyzes the tourism indu…
This dissertation examines the principal forces guiding the pattern of international tourism evolution in less developed countries (LDCs). It focuses on supply side determinants stressing that at any destination, tourism's evolution does not follow an actor-less development path…
The present study tested aspects of restorative environments theoretical frameworks developed by Kaplan and Kaplan (1989) and Ulrich (1983). The frameworks have similar evolutionary assumptions, and both predict that natural environments are relatively high in restorative potent…
The mating behavior of Western women tourists visiting Greece, Indonesia, East Africa, Jerusalem, Jamaica, Ecuador, Barbados, Hawaii and Belize poses a problem for scientific and intuitive models of human sexual psychology. Many of these women enter into sexual relationships wit…
Following Napoleon's invasion of Palestine in 1799, up to Mehemet Ali's conquest in 1831, an increasing number of Western Europeans went to explore this long-neglected Holy Land. Many published their travels, but none described the planning needed for such an expedition, nor the…
In this thesis I look at cultural tourism in Sabah, Malaysia and use it as a tool to explore issues of indigenous identity in the state. In particular, I examine ways in which the effects of colonization as well as the outside world's stereotypical images of Borneo have shaped t…
People in the eastern portion of the island of Sumba, Indonesia have produced strikingly pictorial and technically complex textiles for centuries. Images within these fabrics vividly portray symbolic elements of the animist conceptual system of the island. Such textiles have lon…
Le but de notre etude est d'analyser l'influence du milieu socio-culturel sur le cheminement de l'athlete vers le sport d'elite au Senegal. Dans l'etude, nous utilisons le concept de socialisation vers le sport d'elite qui est plus frequent dans la litterature specifique. Nous a…
Knowledge about tourism employment has largely been derived from research conducted in a developed country context, and what developing country-specific knowledge exists has not been based on empirical research in the tourism sector. This dissertation examined the appropriatenes…
Holy Leisure is an experience of freedom, wholeness and connectedness anchored in the Divine that is accessible by all people, in all places and in all circumstances of life. While ritual can play a key role it is not essential as the experience of Holy leisure, as exemplified b…
This dissertation discusses the role of Balinese women, especially in the tourism business. It begins by surveying studies of gender in Southeast Asia and Bali, many of which claimed to find a type of gender egalitarianism. Other scholars pointed out such characteristics as patr…
This thesis is about the holidaymaking experiences of gay men. Whilst using the parlance of 'gay holidaymaking' and 'gay holidaymakers' as a starting point, it is the complex relationship of gay sexual cultures and spatial practices arising from the experiences of places away fr…
The purpose of this dissertation was to analyze the evangelistic strategy used by the FCA from 1963 to 1971. Chapter 1 introduced important background information of the FCA. It provided a brief history of the FCA from its conception in 1954 till the present that served as the b…
This exploratory study has investigated the perception of leisure and the role of leisure in undergraduate students' lives at University Putra Malaysia. This study has examined students' awareness of and beliefs concerning the use of free time and leisure interests, as well as c…
La ville de Tanger au Maroc est, depuis toujours, un lieu de transit hautement convoité en raison de sa position géographique. Autrefois colonisée par une pluralité de communautés culturelles et administrée par une cohorte de puissances étrangères, elle possède un intérêt touris…