This study aims to determine the impact of social media entertainment on buying decisions via Facebook platform. The research is quasi-experimental and quantitative descriptive. sample size reached 500 active users from Jordanian youth, snowball technique was employed. A questionnaire only tool used collect primary data contains closed-ended questions. Likert five-point scale measures responses...

Studying the spatiotemporal pattern of urban leisure activities helps us to understand development and utilization public space, people’s quality life, happiness index. It has outstanding value for improving rational resource allocation, stimulating vitality, promoting sustainable development. This study aims at discovering distribution patterns behavioral preferences using quantitative technol...

INTRODUCTION Free time in the life of both the disabled and those who are able bodied is the time of leisure, recovery and entertainment. The disabled utilize more energy and strength for everyday functioning compared to the able bodied, therefore, an adequate managing of the leisure time they possess is of great importance. This is confirmed by the latest results of American studies. OBJECTI...

The tourism and leisure industries are currently exploring the potential of new presentation strategies that will maximise the promotional appeal of tourism regions and their main assets, which include a unique landscape and scenery, an impressive cultural heritage, and a wide range of sports facilities and other tourist amenities. Further, publishers of tour guides and maps similarly have expr...

This article develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between young people and city space. More speciŽ cally, our focus concerns what we have termed ‘urban playscapes’—young people’s activities in bars, pubs, night-clubs and music venues within the night-time entertainment economy. The paper theoretically and empirically explores three interrelated aspects of these playscapes: p...

case study 18 to 29 years of kurdistan youths theoretical framework of this study is based on theories of rojek, stibens and bourdieu and studies the situation of leisure time among youths as one of the social groups influencing the dynamics of cultural, social and political deal. survey method and questionnaire have been used to collect data and analyzes has been made. the study population con...

This study aims to develop a recreation and model of future life in Montigo Resorts Batam discover tourists at this facility. The basis is that has an afterlife tourism. Currently, growing rapidly, but still choice for age group. 20 foreign selected as respondents study. Their trips are planned independently they come couple relax. Data collection was done through interviews, observations docum...

Abstract The research aims to propose a new method for the analysis based on face and picture content recognition technologies, travel habits, preferences that were grouped by age, gender, background of tourist attractions utilized photographers. This study uses identify potential destinations associated with tourists visiting East Java villages. researchers analyzed 262 photos 501 people Faceb...

As already elaborated in the previous chapters of this volume, serious games have been acclaimed for playing an increasingly important role in learning, psychological development, and social change (see Ratan & Ritterfeld, this volume, chapter 2; Ritterfeld, Cody, & Vorderer, this volume, chapter 1). Serious games represent the effort to facilitate education through digital entertainment media,...

The Ministry of Sound, which started life as a London club less than ten years ago, by 2002 had the largest global dance record label and the most popular music website in the world, and published the UK's fastest growing music magazine, Ministry. It now promotes club events around the globe and broadcasts its radio show on 50 stations in 32 countries, thus becoming the world's most famous danc...