In modern societies, vacations were shaped as a leisure time for rest and recreation. Argentina, Mar del Plata, seaside resort located in the southeast of province Buenos Aires, became an outstanding summer that, although it had elitist social origin, underwent process democratization until became, middle 20th century , capital mass tourism, whose hidden face was vast world work. The reverse ho...

Young people have rarely been studied in the field of second-home research as active subjects, although they play an influential part contemporary tourism. Based on semi-structured interviews, this study seeks to address scholarly gap existing literature by analysing experiences of, and attitudes towards, living among 12- 17-year-old dwellers vacationing Mäntyharju, Finland. The focuses environ...

PURPOSE Conduct a social network analysis of the health and non-health related organizations that participate in Bogotá's Ciclovía Recreativa (Ciclovía). DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Ciclovía is a multisectoral community-based mass program in which streets are temporarily closed to motorized transport, allowing exclusive access to individuals for leisure activities and physical act...

The recreational use of the Tonto National Forest, Ari­ zona was investigated by using data on ethnic and racial subgroups. The Tonto is a Class 1 urban proximate forest adjoining the large, culturally diverse population of the Phoenix. An on-site survey of 524 recreating groups found sufficiently large numbers of Anglos (n=425) and Hispanics (n=82) who participated in our study. Analyses indic...

OBJECTIVE To develop a set of national injury indicators for Canadian children and youth which will eventually be used to reflect and monitor identified prevention priorities. METHODS The Canadian Injury Indicators Development Team brought together injury researchers, policy makers, and practitioners to develop injury indicators in the following areas: overall health services implications; mo...

Research on forest recreation over the last 60 years has been voluminous. Research on nontimber forest products (NTFP) has been much less voluminous. In this chapter the history of these two tracks of research has been reviewed. Not all studies are mentioned; rather, a representative selection of the subject matter is discussed. Forest recreation research had its beginnings in the late 1950s wi...

The paper tests ‘twoalternative specifications for the opportunity cost of time in travel cost models. The standard travel cost survey design is enriched to include a contingent valuation type question about peoples’ willingness to accept compensation to forgo a precisely defined recreational experience. It is hypothesized that individually revealed value of time more appropriately reflects the...

Games, with features such as voluntariness, fantasy, specific rules/goals, artificial gains/payoffs, competition or cooperation, sensory and motor involvement, challenge, control, low costs of trial and error, and associated amusement (Garris, Ahlers, & Driskell, 2002), might have existed as a type of leisure activity as early as the dawn of civilization, when adults had sufficient food and chi...

Gerontechnology is an interdisciplinary üeld of research and application involving gerontology, the scientiüc study of aging, and technology, the development and distribution of technologically based products, environments, and services . One goal of gerontechnology is to use technology to prevent, delay, or compensate for the perceptual, cognitive, and physical declines of aging. A second is t...