recreation

In this thesis I explored, through participant observation, interviews and document analysis, how a relationship between physical activity and Christianity is socially constructed through the leadership at a Christian summer camp. Ontario Pioneer Camp (OPC), through its Leaders …

Tourism is an economic alternative to revitalise Turkey's economy. However, without good planning, it can turn out to be a big damage on natural resources of an area. Yumurtalik is a study area of this thesis. Yumurtalik is a small town (population, 3970) located on the east Med…

Until quite recently "tourism" was principally a feature of, and was largely confined to, the developed countries. During the past two decades, however, tourism has become an income earning alternative to the many Third World countries, a "passport to development." The current s…

This thesis explores the ways that the design of public recreational swimming space facilitates or inhibits participation by community user groups. A guiding theoretical framework combining Foucault's (1977) Panopticon with Bhabha's (1994) Third Space, was used to describe the c…

The purpose of this research is to examine women's increased participation in elite sport and determine what theoretical approach best explains the dramatic increase. Socio-legal, legal geographic, and feminist sports theory explanations are discussed using information gathered …

The current study analyzed the perceptions of 402 stakeholders of Kuwaiti sport regarding the importance of three domains of sport (i.e., mass sport, elite sport, and commercial sport), and the relative emphases to be placed on each of these domains. The respondents were also as…