Hasil untuk "Recreation leadership. Administration of recreation services"

Nuria Alonso Gallo , Lucía Vicent , David Trillo

This work presents an analysis of the digitalisation of the tourism sector and evaluates the potential of this process for rural areas of the European Union (EU). To do this, we explore aspects of both the supply and demand of rural tourism, proposing a regression model that incorporates indicators that relate the advance of digitalisation with changes in the weight and characteristics of the sector in the regions with low population density included in the NUTS level 2. The research results indicate a positive relationship between the digitalisation of the sector and the supply of rural accommodation, as well as a positive impact on the demand for these facilities. In addition, the study has made it possible to address the potential competition between traditional accommodations and digital platforms, revealing that the greater use of digital platforms for reservations does not negatively affect hotel occupancy rates. The findings underline the importance of digitalisation in the development of rural tourism and suggest possible lines of political action for promoting digital platforms in rural areas.

Samar Salem Korney, Naglaa Ahmed Zaky, Walaa Abd-hakim Abd-El-Nabie

Background and Purpose This study aimed to compare between the impact of virtual reality and mirror therapy on balance, muscle strength and quality of life in unilateral cerebral palsy children. Materials and methods This study involved 36 children of both sexes with unilateral cerebral palsy. Their ages ranged between 6 to 10 years and their motor function ability fell between levels I and II on Growth Motor Functional Classification System (GMFCS). Their grade of spasticity on Modified Ashworth scale was from 1+ to 2. They were allocated to one of two study groups (A and B). A designated physical rehabilitation program was given to both groups. furthermore, group A received a wii fit virtual reality-based program while, group B received mirror therapy. Children in both groups received treatment for three consecutive months, three days per week, 60 minutes per day. Balance, muscle strength and quality of life were assessed using biodex balance system, lafayette hand-held dynamometer and pediatric quality of life inventory cerebral palsy Module respectively for each child in two groups pre and post treatment program. Results Children in the two groups demonstrated a noticeable improvement in the post-treatment average scores of all evaluated outcomes (p 0.001) when compared to pre-treatment average scores. By comparing posttreatment values of both groups, group A showed a noticeably greater improvement than group B (p 0.05). Conclusions Both virtual reality and mirror therapy may be recommended to enhance balance, muscle strength and quality of life in children with unilateral cerebral palsy. Virtual reality is more beneficial in enhancing balance, muscular strength and quality of life among those children.

Sanjiv Kumar, Apoorva Dattatray Nale

Purpose: The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare the effects of Rhythmic Stabilization and a combination of isotonic technique on grip  strength, pinch strength, and dexterity of hand among middle aged healthy individuals. Methods Forty middle aged healthy individuals were selected on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria. Participants were randomly allocated to two groups, with 20 in group A (Rhythmic Stabilization) and 20 in group B (Combination of Isotonic Technique). Treatment was given for 4 weeks, thrice a week. Outcome measures: grip strength, pinch strength, and dexterity were assessed by the Jamar hand dynamometer, the Pinch gauge, and the Perdue peg board, respectively. Outcome measures were assessed at baseline and after 4 weeks of treatment. Results Notably, Group A participants showed a significant improvement in all outcome measures compared to Group B (p<0.05) when compared. Both the interventions were effective for dexterity outcome in both groups (p<0.05).  Conclusion: This study provides evidence that application of Rhythmic Stabilization improves grip strength and pinch strength.  This suggests that static Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) exercises performed on the fingers can improve dexterity, grip strength, and pinch strength in the middle-aged population. Highlights As age increases, there is decrease in grip strength and dexterity of a person. The grip strength, finger strength and dexterity are inter-related. The Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation increases strength of muscles. The static PNF exercises are more effective than the dynamic PNF exercises to improve strength of grip strength, finger strength and dexterity.

María Eugenia Rodríguez-López , Juan Miguel Alcántara-Pilar, Salvador Del Barrio-García

In an increasingly innovative competitive environment, it is necessary to know the customer in depth and to understand the intrinsic determinants of customer loyalty to the restaurant and brand equity. Culture is a fundamental factor in understanding behaviour, which has often attracted interest because of its moderating rather than determining role. The objective of this research is to examine the determinant role of customers' cultural values (long-term orientation, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance) on the customer's attitudinal process in the restaurant (satisfaction and loyalty) in order to understand how it indirectly affects through the attitudinal process the formation of a restaurant's brand equity. A sample of 540 customers was used, and a SEM model was estimated. The results indicate that cultural values, except for power distance, strongly determine the attitudinal process. Therefore, culture indirectly affects the formation of the restaurant's brand equity.

Elena Puiggròs, Joan-Francesc Fondevila-Gascón, Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias et al.

Los indicadores de calidad en empresas y organizaciones turísticas alcanzan aspectos diversos. Uno de los que está creciendo con fuerza es el uso del lenguaje inclusivo, que denota buenas prácticas. Esta investigación presenta como objetivo principal analizar el lenguaje inclusivo en la información turística de Barcelona a través de los diferentes apartados de web de Turisme de Barcelona, organismo público que proyecta la imagen de la ciudad condal como destino turístico. Asimismo, se pretende informar sobre qué tipos de elementos del lenguaje inclusivo se aplican en la web mencionada y manifestar que es conveniente el empleo de este tipo de lenguaje. La metodología empleada en este estudio de caso es de carácter cualitativo, basándose en la creación de una checklist y el análisis de contenido. Los resultados obtenidos reflejan que en la información turística en la web de Turisme de Barcelona el lenguaje inclusivo es prácticamente nulo, casi inexistente. Se concluye la necesidad de intensificar el esfuerzo de la web en inclusividad.

Sónia Moreira Cabeça, Alexandra Rodrigues Gonçalves, João Filipe Marques et al.

What can people express about their places through the objects that they valorise and link to their territory? Can objects create narratives about a place’s identity and collect significant cultural information that locate people in their places? Can such cultural mapping be a useful tool in the design of creative tourist offers? The Project CREATOUR held a series of Idea Laboratories with several entities that provide creative tourism experiences, approaching cultural mapping through objects as a tool for regional actors to discover what is ‘so special’ about their places, a way to link tourism offers with the community where they take place. These exercise lead participants to remark on the importance and idiosyncrasy of their regions and evidenced the importance of cultural mapping to a more sustainable offer and the overall marketing of destinations. Mapping intangibilities through tangible objects helped to capture what gives meaning to particular places

I.O. Asaulyuk, A.A. Diachenko

<p><em>The main goal of the work</em> is to study the level of physical fitness of  students of music specialties. The objectives of the study reflect the gradual achievement of the goal. It also gives the analysis of the static strength endurance of the muscles of the body <em>Methods of research</em>: analysis and generalization of data in literature, pedagogical methods of research (experiment, testing), methods of mathematical statistics. 154 students of the first and second year of the Vinnitsa School of Culture and Arts named after M. D. Leontovich participated in the pedagogical experiment. Such as students of the specialty “Music Art”, the specializations “piano, orchestra, string instruments” (violin, viola, cello, double bass); “Orchestral wind instruments and percussion instruments” (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, horn, trumpet, trombone, tubo, percussion instruments), “folk instruments” (accordion, accordion, domra, bandura, guitar); “Vocal, choral conducting”.  <em>Results</em><em>.</em><strong> </strong> It is noted that the level of work capacity, health status and occupations depends on the effectiveness of their physical education. It is possible to increase the effectiveness of the process of physical education of students through optimization and development of professionally important physical qualities. Student’s educational and further activity of the specialty "Musical art" provides an unpleasant work pose and peculiarities of the manifestation of physical qualities, which level of development depends on the effectiveness of professional activity.  <em>Findings.</em> The estimation of indicators of the physical readiness of students with the use of battery tests, which characterize the static strength endurance of the muscles of the torso is evaluated. Evaluation of the students' physical fitness made it possible to determine the general tendency of significant deterioration of the indicators for the period of study. </p>

Francesc González Revertéz, Pablo Díaz Luque , Joan Miquel Gomis López et al.

The aim of this paper is to debate the IT concept from the perception different agents of the tourism sector have about it and to see to what extent there is agreement or disagreement in the definition of the concept itself, its influence on the competitive improvement of destinations and future trends. In short, it intends to analyze the potential, but also to understand the risks and main challenges that the incorporation of IT can cause over current destinations. The work procedure involves asking experts in the tourism sector and in the academic world about the different thematic areas on IT and ITD: the definition of the concept and the welfare of its evolution in the immediate future, the characteristics and components of an ITD system, the role of the technological components in an ITD, the linking of IT with sustainability, the limits and risks of IT display, and the determinants and conditionings that destinations have for the development of IT strategies. The collected information has been obtained from the opinion of around thirty experts, with the purpose of gathering different points of view through the Delphi method: the academic specialists (belonging to national and international universities), those affected (from the case of study of the tourist municipalities of the province of Barcelona) and the facilitators (companies and organizations involved in the use of technologies to promote IT).

Luciana Brandão Ferreira, Marina Toledo de Arruda Lourenção, Janaina de Moura Engracia Giraldi et al.

This article aims to verify in the literature related to the Summer Olympics the main economic and image implications for the destination hosting it. A qualitative exploratory research was carried out with the survey of scientific articles of the last twenty-five years in five different databases. The studies indicate economic and image gains and losses from hosting the games. As positive aspects, most of the studies mention those coming from Olympic spending that provided long-term gains for the resident population in the host locality and related to tourist activity. The most cited negative aspects are related to investments that generated benefits only in the short term or lack of investment in infrastructure. It is concluded that the preparation and implementation processes in each country are too different for the results to be uniform. In addition, the diverse methodological aspects of the articles also influence their results.

Vitor João Ramos Alves, Uliane Cristina dos Santos Borges

O presente artigo propõe, por meio de uma abordagem dialética, de tipo qualitativa, analisar o movimento de periferização e a negligência ao patrimônio-territorial no município de Diamantina (MG), tendo como estudo de caso o Bairro da Palha, localizado a 4 km do centro histórico tombado pela Unesco e porta de entrada da conhecida “Rota do ouro e do diamante”. Pôde-se observar que o bairro pesquisado se desenvolveu e consolidou por meio de uma ocupação urbana caracterizada por recorrentes processos de segregação socioespacial, intensificada pelas ações conjuntas do poder público ao tombamento do centro histórico, que contribuíram para uma negligência ao patrimônio-territorial do bairro e das áreas periféricas de Diamantina (MG) em sua totalidade.

Carlota Bonet Balaguer, Andrea Campos Hernández, Carla Marcos Cladellas et al.

Desde finales del siglo XX, el binomio turismo y cine, denominado habitualmente turismo cinematográfico, se ha convertido en una de las modalidades turísticas más emergentes y dinámicas. Entre las diversas tipologías de turismo cinematográfico aceptadas en el ámbito académico, esta investigación se ha basado en aquella que tiene una doble identidad fílmica, como destino de rodaje y como destino donde sucede la trama de la película. Es decir, una película se rueda en un lugar determinado pero en realidad está representando otro lugar. El objetivo principal de la investigación es identificar y analizar las producciones o coproducciones audiovisuales internacionales que se han rodado parcial o totalmente en Barcelona y que en la ficción representan otras ciudades. Los resultados se han obtenido a partir de una metodología fundamentalmente analítico-descriptiva. Como principal conclusión del estudio se puede extraer que las películas internacionales rodadas en Barcelona, pero que representan otros lugares, tienen gran potencial para reforzar o crear una oferta competitiva de turismo cinematográfico en Barcelona. 

Luiz Carlos da Silva Flores

Gilvan Charles Cerqueira de Araújo

COSTA, Everaldo Batista da. A concretude do fenômeno turismo e as cidades-patrimônio-mercadoria. Rio de Janeiro: Livre Expressão, 2010.

Luiz Carlos da Silva Flores, Josildete Pereira de Oliveira

Ana Paula Garcia Spolon

Relato de experiência de participação nos eventos científicos organizados pela Academia Internacional para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Turismo no Brasil - ABRATUR e pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Turismo e Hospitalidade da Universidade de Caxias do Sul – PPGTURH-UCS, respectivamente em junho e julho de 2015.

José Luis Ruizalba-Robledo , María Vallespín-Arán , José Luis González-Porras

This study analyses some of the factors comprising Internal Market Orientation (IMO) in family businesses in Andalusia (Spain): Management Concern, Training and Work-Family-Balance. Corporate Volunteering (CV) has been incorporated for the first time in IMO. A statistical analysis shows that CV can be inserted within the dimension of response to internal market intelligence and, its incorporation is proposed for future IMO models as a part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The impact of some factors on Job Satisfaction has also been considered. The two most influential factors on Job Satisfaction are CV and Work-FamilyBalance.

Mônica Schneider, Marcia Maria Cappellano dos Santos

Este trabalho volta-se para relações de hospitalidade na romaria ao Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio – Farroupilha/RS sob a ótica do romeiro. Prática religiosa que perdura por mais de um século, mobiliza anualmente milhares de pessoas, abarcando uma ampla estrutura receptiva. Assim, num contexto teórico para o qual confluem conceitos de espiritualidade e religiosidade, turismo religioso e hospitalidade, tem-se como objetivo identificar, analisar e interpretar,324via discurso, sinalizadores de relações de hospitalidade sob a perspectiva do romeiro. A pesquisa, prioritariamente qualitativa, compreendeu entrevistas semiestruturadas com participantes da romaria de 2012. Mediante técnicas de análise de conteúdo e de marcas enunciativas, foram categorizados fragmentos das respostas dos entrevistados. Os sinalizadores discursivos apontam, relativamente, à hospitalidade para a predominância de aspectos vinculados ao planejamento e à organização socioadministrativa da romaria, seguidos das relações sócio-humanas que nela se efetivam. Esses sinalizadores foram ainda analisados estabelecendo-se elos com as manifestações dos sujeitos sobre as motivações para a ida a Caravaggio, a experiência de participação no evento, assim como os destaques que seriam dados sobre a romaria a um eventual futuro romeiro – o que possibilitou, com o apoio de subsídios empíricos, aportar outro olhar teórico sobre os conceitos de peregrinação/romaria e de turismo religioso. Palavras-chave: Turismo religioso. Hospitalidade/Acolhimento. Romaria ao Santuário de Nossa Senhora de Caravaggio – Farroupilha/RS.

Virginia Aparecida Castro, Janaina de Moura Engracia Giraldi, Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar os trabalhos acadêmicos que abordam a temática marca-país e seus conceitos correlatos, como imagem de país e efeito país de origem, em conjunto com vantagem competitiva, publicados nos periódicos das bases Emerald e Wiley, no período de 2007 a 2012. A pesquisa é exploratória e bibliográfica. A partir da leitura crítica de 156 artigos, notou-se que não existe um arcabouço conciso que mostre a relação e a geração de vantagem competitiva a partir do desenvolvimento da marca-país. De forma esparsa, aparecem apenas três artigos que relacionam os temas, indicando que muito pouco se tem estudado para comprovar cientificamente, por meio de casos práticos, que a utilização dos recursos internos (valorosos, raros, imperfeitamente imitáveis e imperfeitamente substituíveis) como a marca-país, imagem de país ou país de origem, pode gerar vantagem competitiva sustentável para as organizações. As similaridades dos trabalhos analisados estão na condição esparsa da interconexão dos temas, com pouca discussão e resultados que comprovem que o desenvolvimento da marca-país, imagem de país ou país de origem, pode ser fonte de vantagem competitiva. As diferenças estão voltadas para os enfoques: marca empresarial, marca-país, setor produtivo e destinos turísticos.

Christopher P. Thuringer

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