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Camper Self-Concept Promotes Environmental Awareness: A Relationship Mediated by Social Inclusion
(Journal of Youth Development, 2018-04-19)Summer camps in Canada provide services to hundreds of thousands of youth each year, giving opportunities for growth and development. However, summer camps in Canada remain understudied. Using one phase of data from the ... -
The Canadian Culinary Tourists: How Well Do We Know Them?
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Culinary tourism is emerging as an important component of the rapidly growing cultural tourism market. It introduces tourists to new flavours and different traditions associated with the preparation, serving, and consuming ... -
Caregivers of long-term cancer survivors: The role leisure plays in improving psychological well-being
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Cancer rates are on the rise and there is also an increase in the number of cancer survivors. This results in an increase of caregivers for those survivors. Many caregivers experience negative impacts of caregiving, including ... -
Choir Participation and Community Wellbeing: A Social Identity Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-03)Research about choir and community wellbeing shows that there is a positive association between the two constructs. In addition, the positive association between choir participation and community wellbeing seems to be ... -
Communal Orientation and Employee Well-Being: Examining the Mediating Roles of Positive Relational Communication and Perceptions of Customer Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-15)Customer interactions can be a significant source of work-related stress for hospitality employees, which can lead to burnout and high employee turnover rates. However, adopting a communal approach to customer relationships ... -
Communicating leisure: Meanings of leisure in newcomer settlement service provision
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-25)Research suggests that leisure can play an important role in the settlement of newcomers; however, little research has explored meanings of leisure in the context of settlement service providers. Furthermore, little research ... -
A Comparison of Five Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Governance under Ontario Provincial Parks’ Management Model
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-27)Governance is widely discussed in various government sectors or agencies such as Health Care and Education and throughout the private sector. Yet, it is only recently that reference to governance with regards to parks and ... -
Concealable Stigma and Leisure Travel Motivation: The Case of Sexual Minority Adults at a Seasonal-home Campground
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-20)Sexual minorities experience more stress than the general population, which contributes to negative mental and physical health outcomes. This minority stress is a result living and working in social environments that do ... -
Conditioning Community: Power and Decision-Making in Transitioning an Industry-based Community
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-11)While it is well understood that many resource-based communities are transitioning to tourism to provide a new economic foundation, few studies have probed in-depth the rationale and mechanisms influencing decision-making ... -
Conservation and Natural Resource Management in the Ankasa Resource Reserve, Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)Community-based natural resource management has been introduced in Ghana as an instrument to assist nature conservation and natural resource management, as opposed to the fences and fines approach of the protectionist ... -
Consumer Decision Making and Word of Mouth Communication
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)Word of mouth (WOM) communication has been a form of additional information for consumers wishing to make a purchase decision where there was uncertainty, lack of knowledge or just a general desire for more information. ... -
Consumption Communities: An Examination of the Kitchener Market as a Third Place
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-24)Leisure time, leisure activities, and leisure spaces largely surround matters of consumption. However, the role consumption plays in the reproduction and performance of community is a necessarily contested topic among ... -
Coral Bleaching and Dive Operators in the Caribbean: Perceptions of Environmental Change
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-12)Dive tourism is a growing and important industry which is often reliant on a high quality natural environment. As dive tourism’s significance grows due to its economic and ecological impacts on many tropical destinations, ... -
Critical Intersections of Gender, Race and Ethnicity: Leisure Constraints, Negotiations and Resistances of Immigrant Adolescent Girls
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-16)Leisure can provide a central context for the core adolescent issue of identity development. Given the importance of leisure in adolescents’ lives, it is imperative to understand the constraints to leisure and possible ... -
Cultural influences on Chinese parents’ selection of sports activities for their children
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-05)In spite of amble of research on parental influence on children’s sports participation, our understanding in this area is limited due to the fact that most of the research to date has been conducted in Western cultures. ... -
Curating the Cinematic Muse: The Role of Programming in the Film Festival Experience - The 40th Toronto International Film Festival
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-05)International film festivals are clearly about something beyond the appreciation of cinema; they are forums for the collective exploration and celebration of films, showcasing the newest films, the exotic and forgotten ... -
DECOLONIZING EXPERIENCES: AN ECOPHENOMENOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE LIVED-EXPERIENCE OF APPALACHIAN TRAIL THRU-HIKERS
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-17)Rooted in a critical dialogue that endeavours to theorize experience in contrast to the colonial impetus, this dissertation explores the lived experience of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers. As a result of this disposition, ... -
Delving Deeper: The Relationship between Culture, Leisure, and Wellbeing
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-18)Leisure has been consistently linked to wellbeing for its many potential benefits for over a decade. While a variety of links have been established between leisure and wellbeing, researchers have seldom investigated the ... -
Dementia Discourse: From Imposed Suffering to Knowing Other-Wise
(University of Calgary, 2013-06-12)The authors revisit the troubling discourse surrounding the diagnosis of dementia. A critique of the predominant words and images in health care literature, public discourse, and policy is considered from multiple angles. ... -
Destination and Event Marketing: a Case Study in the 2007 C&D Xiamen International Marathon, Xiamen, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-24)Events have been recognized as one of three contributors to destinations. Event tourism has become a new tourism alternative in recent years. This research examines the relationships between the marketing and organizing ...