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Heading Out
Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing
the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of
national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People
committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to
state as season and whim dictate? Terence Young would say: all of
the above. Camping is one of the country's most popular
pastimes-tens of millions of Americans go camping every year.
Whether on foot, on horseback, or in RVs, campers have been
enjoying themselves for well more than a century, during which time
camping's appeal has shifted and evolved. In Heading Out ,
Young takes readers into nature and explores with them the history
of camping in the United States.Young shows how camping progressed
from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from
their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so
popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless
supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. Young humanizes
camping's history by spotlighting key figures in its development
and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions.
Readers will meet William H. H. Murray, who launched a craze for
camping in 1869; Mary Bedell, who car camped around America for
12,000 miles in 1922; William Trent Jr., who struggled to end
racial segregation in national park campgrounds before World War
II; and Carolyn Patterson, who worked with the U.S. Department of
State in the 1960s and 1970s to introduce foreign service personnel
to the \"real\" America through trailer camping. These and many
additional characters give readers a reason to don a headlamp, pull
up a chair beside the campfire, and discover the invigorating and
refreshing history of sleeping under the stars.
eBook
English National Identity and Football Fan Culture
In recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the St George's Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a specifically 'English' identity. This has emerged as part of a wider 'national' response to broader political processes such as devolution and European integration which have fragmented identities within the UK. Using the controversial figurational sociological approach advocated by the twentieth-century theorist Norbert Elias, this book challenges such a view, drawing on ethnographic research amongst fans to explore the precise nature of the relationship between contemporary English national identity and football fan culture. Examining football fans' expressions of Englishness in public houses and online spaces, the author discusses the effects of globalization, European integration and UK devolution on English society, revealing that the use of the St George's Cross does not signal the emergence of a specifically 'English' national consciousness, but in fact masks a more complex, multi-layered process of national identity construction. A detailed and grounded study of identity, nationalism and globalization amongst football fans, English National Identity and Football Fan Culture will appeal to scholars and students of politics, sociology and anthropology with interests in ethnography, the sociology of sport, fan cultures, globalization and contemporary national identities.
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Changes in recreational behaviors of outdoor enthusiasts during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis across urban and rural communities
The COVID-19 pandemic presents not only a global health crisis but has also disrupted the daily lives of people around the world. From a leisure perspective, urban outdoor enthusiasts are one group particularly impacted by the pandemic and the subsequent institutional response. Stay-at-home orders and physical distancing recommendations serve as potential inhibitors to outdoor recreation activities central to the lifestyles and wellbeing of outdoor enthusiasts. In urban areas, where these orders and recommendations are most restrictive, the potential impacts on recreation behavior are most consequential. This study provides an empirical analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the recreational behaviors of outdoor enthusiasts across urban and rural communities. Results suggest that the frequency of outdoor recreation participation, distance travelled to participate in outdoor recreation and distance travelled beyond roads during outdoor recreation have declined significantly more among outdoor enthusiasts residing in urban areas than urban clusters or rural areas.
Journal Article
Strategic sports event management
\"The hosting of sports events whether large international events, or smaller niche events can have a significant and long lasting impact on the local environment, economy and society. Strategic Sports Event Management provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to school sports. Combining a unique conceptual framework with a practical, step by step guide to planning, organising, managing and evaluating events, the book explains the importance of adopting a strategic approach, showing how to implement strategies that lead to successful outcomes over the short and long-term. This fully revised and updated third edition uses international case studies in every chapter, from the NBA and NFL to Formula One and the English Premier League, offering real-world insight into both larger and smaller events. In addition, woven throughout the book are a series of in-depth studies of the London Olympic Games, the ultimate sporting event and an important point of reference for all practising and aspiring event managers.The book covers every key aspect of the sports event management process, includingsports organizations, such as the IOC, FIFA and IAAF, and their interactions with event partners, the media and promotersshort-term and long term benefits of the planning processevent impact and legacy operational functions including finance, ticketing, transport, venues, IT, human resources, and securitymarketing and communications, including social networking and new mediathe bidding process research and evaluation.Strategic Sports Event Management is the leading sports event management textbook and is now accompanied by a companion website containing a range of additional teaching and learning features. The book is important reading for all students of sport management or event management, and all practising event managers looking to develop their professional skills\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The amenity migrants: seeking and sustaining mountains and their cultures
Places with perceived high environmental quality and distinctive culture are globally attracting amenity migrants. Today this societal driving force is particularly manifest in mountain areas, and while beneficial for both the new comers and locals, is also threatening highland ecologies and their human communities. This book describes and analyses the challenges and opportunities of amenity migration and its management, and offers related recommendations.The book's chapters cover the subject through case studies at international, regional and local levels, along with overarching themes such as environmental sustainability and equity, mountain recreation users, housing, and spiritual motivation. A crucial issue addressed is the relationship of amenity migration to tourism, and migration motivated by economic gain. The introduction and concluding chapters bring all of the information and analyses together strategically, summarising in a manner of theoretical and practical value for both academics and practitioners.
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Climbing : from first-timer to gym climber
The first in a progression series aimed at beginner climbers, Climbing: From First-Timer to Gym Climber walks you through your first time trying to rock climb and offers basic instruction on the fundamental skills needed to get off the ground and onto the wall.
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Employees Behavioural Intentions Towards the Use of Artificial Intelligence on Sustainable Tourism
The increased competition and need to provide sustainable tourism in tourism organisations has resulted in a rapid growth of the application of Artificial Intelligence. The study aimed to find employees' behavioural intentions about the usage of Artificial Intelligence in sustainable tourism. This study is essential in assessing in what way employees perceive the deployment of Artificial Intelligence in the work environment in South African cities. The research is based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, Diffusion of Innovation Theory, and the Theory of Planned Behaviour. The research's empirical goals aimed to assess the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology perceptions on user and technology acceptability among employees in sustainable tourism businesses. Also, to determine the Diffusion of Innovation Theory on the structure of innovation use and discover acceptance patterns to foresee how individuals choose which innovations to implement. Finally, the Theory of Planned Behaviour investigated employee interest-based behaviour in terms of aim, activity, context, and time period while implementing Artificial Intelligence technologies. Data was collected from 353 participants whose tourism organisations have applied Artificial Intelligence. The Statistical Package for Social Science was utilised in the research to organise the information that was gathered. The findings of a descriptive analysis of behavioural intentions revealed that employees are optimistic about the application of Artificial Intelligence over future career growth and expect to utilise it more frequently at work. The relation of behavioural intentions and action was established utilising the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling technique. The Structural Equation Modelling evaluation found that behavioural intentions and use (β=0.906, p<0.001) have a substantial favourable effect on employees' adoption of Artificial Intelligence. The analysis yielded substantial outcomes that are dependable amid the theoretical foundations and examination on the topic. The findings point to a path for the deployment of Artificial Intelligence technologies in tourism businesses, with individuals as well as organisations focussing on achieving a balance between organisational training and enhanced skills. The study outcome serves as a guide for tourism organisations, to determine strategic decisions about the deployment of Artificial Intelligence technology in the workplace to achieve sustainability.
Dissertation