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Browsing Recreation and Leisure Studies by Title
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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 Consumers’ Intentions to Purchase Technological Innovations in the Context of Sport
(University of Waterloo, 2024-07-05)Researchers have studied innovation adoption in various sport contexts, including digital ticketing, sport team mobile apps, fantasy sports league websites, and smart-connected sports products, to name a few. However, ... -
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 ... -
Voluntary Simplicity as a Value Orientation in the Lifestyle, Leisure, Well-being Relationship
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Leisure typically has been regarded as a positive component in people's lives, and evidence points to its central rather than peripheral role in lifestyle. Further, studies of leisure suggest it is conducive to psychological ... -
Volunteer Tourism: An Exploration of Socially Responsible Tourism Practices
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-25)This study explored the practices of commercial volunteer tourism operators in order to determine their perspectives on the role certification may play as a strategy for socially responsible volunteer tourism. It was ... -
A Walk in the Park: Exploring the Impact of Parks and Recreation Amenities as Activity-Promoting Features of the Built Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-16)Social ecological models of physical activity (PA) promotion embrace a wide range of factors and disciplines that may contribute to active living. Parks, trails, and recreation facilities have been acknowledged as important ... -
Walking the Red Road: Aboriginal Federally Sentenced Women’s Experiences in Healing, Empowerment, and Re-creation
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-21)In 2001, when Aboriginal women comprised only 3.5% of Canadian women, 23% of Federally Sentenced Women (FSW) were Aboriginal. In the intervening six year period, the presence of Aboriginal women in Canada’s federal ... -
A war between stories: Leisure, colonialism and my struggles to reconcile my Indigeneity
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-15)This dissertation is concerned with oppression and “the reach of imperialism into our heads” (Smith, 2012, p. 63). It is concerned with the “war between stories” (Delgado, 2012, p.2419) between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ... -
“We are doing it all wrong”: A Narrative Inquiry Journey Co-Directed by Persons Living with Young Onset Dementia to Illuminate Inequities and Advocate for Change
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-27)In recent years more attention and concerns are being drawn to the noticeable increase in diagnoses of young onset dementia (YOD), that is individuals who are diagnosed with dementia and are under the age of 65 years. This ... -
"We are not a machine": Personal support workers' (ante)narratives of labour, leisure, and hope amidst politics of genderacialised care in long-term care homes
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)Systemic processes rooted in and reinforcing neoliberalism and capitalist production work to racialise, gender, and class bodies engaged in caring. Engaging in caring through labouring bodies, racialised women working in ... -
"We can compete and we can be equals": Female experiences of co-gendered soccer
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-21)Despite many sports leagues for participants over the age of 18 being co-gendered, little research has explored how women experience co-gendered sport. Women are typically underrepresented in these leagues so it is important ... -
Weaving connections: A case study examining the experiences of a community-initiated social leisure program for individuals with dementia and their care partners
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-27)There are currently 564,000 Canadians living with dementia, and this number is anticipated to rise significantly (Alzheimer Society of Canada, 2016). Persons with dementia are amongst the most stigmatized groups in society. ...