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Towards a Diverse Vision of Aging: An Exploration of LGBTQ Aging Experiences and Perceptions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-14)How do you envision the later years of your life? How do you feel about aging? For many LGBTQ individuals, the later years of their life are a time of isolation, invisibility, harassment, and depression (Butler, 2004). The ... -
Tracking Denesoline Knowledge and Narratives along Ancestral Waters
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-26)The south slave region of the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada is the home of the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation (LKDFN) (Pelly, 1996). Like many Indigenous communities across Canada, the Denesoline ... -
Transformational Tourism: The Example of Backpackers in Tibet
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)Hannam (2009) stated that travel played an important role in helping people, especially young people, to develop their inner self. Experiences, relationships and memories continue to influence ongoing journeys, including ... -
Transitions in Belonging and Sense of Community in a Long-Term Care Home: Explorations in Discourse, Policy and Lived Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)This research examined notions of belonging and sense of community through a set of layered lenses that integrated a social model of aging with phenomenology to gain a better understanding of the lived experiences of ... -
Travel Lifestyle and Behaviour of New Canadians
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)Immigration has become a common phenomenon of modern society in numerous countries around the world, including Canada. Despite this, tourism research has mainly focused on specific behaviours of travellers from a particular ... -
Troubling Dominance in Sport: Deconstructing Curling Culture(s) through Narrative Inquiry
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-26)Curling, with its deep history, colonial legacy, and quintessential “Canadianness” (Mair, 2007, 2009) offers a rich context to explore how dominant narratives within a sport may continue to affect diversity and inclusion. ... -
Unbearable Fruits
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-27)Counter to my bodily instincts, abstract writing demands we make something evident in the interest of time (Loveless, 2019). I’ve been state power, settler colonialism, neighbourhood change and/or gentrification, queer ... -
Understanding a Demonstration Effect Among Youth Sport Spectators: An Application and Augmentation of the Theory of Planned Behavior
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-16)The present study employed the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to assess motivational factors associated to youths’ pre-event and post-event intentions to participate in the sport of track cycling. This study also ... -
Understanding a Demonstration Effect of 2015 Pan Am Games Track Cycling Competitions: Exploring Relationships Between Pre-Event Engagement, Trait Inspiration, Positive Affect, and Participation Intention
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-29)The demonstration effect occurs when “people are inspired by elite sport, sports people or sport events to actively participate themselves” (Weed et al., 2015, p.197). Theoretical underpinnings of demonstration effects are ... -
Understanding commitment and the contingent leisure service worker: an interpretive approach
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-18)Over the past few decades, hundreds of empirical investigations have examined the construct of “workplace commitment”. Much of this research is based on the assumption that commitment is tied to longevity within a given ... -
Understanding Complaining Behaviour and Users' Preferences for Service Recovery: An Experiment
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-09)Many services fail. Failures are those encounters during which the user assesses the service as flawed (Maxham & Netemeyer, 2003; Palmer, Beggs, & Keown-McMullan, 2000), or improper (Maxham, 2001). An emergent service ... -
Understanding Refugee Employment in Tourism Social Enterprises: The Case of the Magdas Hotel
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-24)The tourism and hospitality sector has come to rely heavily on immigrants, including displaced people (i.e., refugees), as a significant employee source. While much research has explored the role of immigrants and refugees ... -
Understanding Response to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
(University of Waterloo, 2011-03-10)The present study employed Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to understand the motivational factors associated with peoples’ intention to: (a) increase their physical activity levels in response to Vancouver 2010 ... -
Understanding The Lived Experiences of Local Residents in Muskoka, Ontario: A Case Study on Cottaging
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-21)Muskoka, Ontario, Canada has been recognized as an environment that is appealing for tourism visitation, but more specially cottaging, due to its attractive natural landscape and amenities that are “normally associated ... -
Understanding the Pathways in the Relationship between Engagement with Nature and Wellbeing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)It is now well established that contact with nature, regardless of activity type or experience, can have positive influences on the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual health and wellbeing of individuals. The ... -
Understanding Young Carers and their Leisure (UYCL): A Critical Participatory Action Research (CPAR) Initiative
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-30)As of 2012, Statistics Canada estimated there were a minimum 1.2 million young Canadians supporting a family member or friend with a long-term health condition, disability, or as an older adult (Statistics Canada, 2012). ... -
Unser Satt Leit: Our Sort of People - Health Understandings in the Old Order Mennonite and Amish Community
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Our cultural orientation informs our fundamental understandings of health. It has the potential to guide how we define health, how we understand the determinants of well-being, and how we respond to illness. For ... -
Uprooting and Rerooting: A Critical Race Informed Narrative Inquiry of LTC Home Culture with Stories Told by Thamizh (Tamil) Elders
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-05)People of colour (POC) living in long-term care (LTC) homes are affected by systematized difference (including structural racism) every day. Due to differences between the predominant, largely Eurocentric provision of care ... -
A visitor experience scale: historic sites and museums
(University of Waterloo, 2013-03-04)Since Pine and Gilmore (1999) proclaimed the arrival of the experience economy era, research on tourists’ experiences has become an area of growing interest among scholars and practitioners. Gaining knowledge of the ... -
Visitor Satisfaction at a Local Festival: An Importance-Performance Analysis of Oktoberfest
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-31)The aim of this research was to provide a practical method for assessing visitor satisfaction at a local festival. It is crucial for festival management to monitor and evaluate visitor satisfaction in order to understand ...