Developing young people's sense of self and place through sport

Previous research has recognized positive health implications, both physical and mental, as an outcome of participation in leisure pursuits. They provide opportunities for self-expression and stress reduction, as well as an environment in which people can socialize. Leisure activities, specifically sport activities, can play a significant role in young people's identity development. This paper explores the leisure activities in which young people in Adelaide, Australia participate. It examines the role of leisure activities in terms of young people's identity and feelings towards their hometown. This study consisted of semi-structured focus groups conducted with 24 senior high school students, followed by a survey resulting in 226 useable responses. Respondents were aged between 16 and 18 years of age. From the range of activities identified and explored, the results revealed sports activities to have the greatest impact on young people's lives. The results demonstrated that frequency of participation has a significant effect on young people's involvement levels and how they identify with the activity

Propositions for Use in Comparing Consumer Images of Private and Public Recreation Facilities

Increasing competition between private sector and public sector recreation facilities dictates that managers must be more sensitive to the needs and wants of their patrons. There appears to be evidence that the image of a recreation facility may be at least partially determined by its private or public sector status. Eight researchable propositions are developed to guide further research in this area

Pengaruh Literasi Keuangan Terhadap Pengelolaan Keuangan Pengusaha Kecil Asli Papua Di Kota Jayapura

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis pengaruh literasi keuangan terhadap pengelolaan keuangan pengusaha kecil Asli Papua di Kota Jayapura. Jenis data pada penelitian ini adalah data primer dengan penyebaran kuisioner kepada 92 responden pengusaha kecil Asli Papua di Kota Jayapura yang terdaftar pada Kantor Dinas Perindustrian Perdagangan Koperasi dan UMKM Kota Jayapura. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode kuantitatif. Uji kualitas data menggunakan uji validitas dan uji realibilitas serta uji hipotesis menggunakan R2, uji t dan uji F. Hasil uji t menemukan bahwa literasi keuangan mengenai pengetahuan keuangan dasar, simpanan dan kredit serta investasi berpengaruh signifikan terhadap pengelolaankeuangan pengusaha kecil Asli Papua, sedangkan literasi keuangan mengenai asuransi tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap pengelolaan keuangan pengusaha kecil Asli Papua di Kota Jayapura. Hasil uji F menemukan bahwa literasi keuangan mengenai pengetahuan keuangan dasar, simpanan dan kredit, investasi serta asuransi berpengaruh signifikan terhadap pengelolaan keuangan pengusaha kecil Asli Papua di Kota Jayapura

Day Of The Week Effect dan Implikasinya terhadap Investor

This study aims to find out whether there is a Day of the week effect on stock trading, and what are the implications of the day-of-the-week effect for investors in Jayapura City. The sample for this research is a company that is included in IDX80 for the period February 2021-January 2022. The data analysis method uses Kruskal Wallis and Man Whitney. The results of the study found that the day-of-the-week effect occurred on stocks included in the IDXV80 period from February 2021-January 2022. There was no Monday effect on stocks included in the IDXV80 period from February 2021-January 2022. There was a weekend effect on stocks included in the IDXV80 period from February 2021-January 2022, young investors in Jayapura City have not used the anomalies in the capital market as momentum for making investment decisions

Lifestyle travellers: Backpacking as a way of life

Scholarship on backpackers speculates some individuals may extend backpacking to a way of life. This article empirically explores this proposition using lifestyle consumption as its framing concept and conceptualises individuals who style their lives around the enduring practice of backpacking as ‘lifestyle travellers’. Ethnographic interviews with lifestyle travellers in India and Thailand offer an emic account of the practices, ideologies and social identity that characterise lifestyle travel as a distinctive subtype within backpacking. Departing from the drifter construct, which (re)constitutes this identity as socially deviant, the concept of lifestyle allows for a contemporary appraisal of these individuals’ patterns of meaningful consumption and wider insights into how ongoing mobility can lead to different ways of understanding identities and relating to place. Keywords: lifestyle consumption; backpacker; mobility; drifter; identit

"I Decided to Invest in My Kids' Memories": Family Vacations, Memories, and the Social Construction of the Family

This article explores the cultural significance of family vacations and the role that these vacations play in the social construction of the family. Based on a series of semistructured interviews with members of families living in Ontario, Canada, the article examines the meanings and experiences associated with family vacations for parents of school aged children. Family vacations were seen as a form of escape from the pressures of everyday life, even though they involved organizational and emotional work, especially for mothers. Family vacations were valued as an opportunity for family togetherness and for improving patterns of family communication. Of particular importance was the long-term goal of creating memories that would enhance family cohesion and construct and support a positive sense of family. The findings indicate that the cultural meanings associated with family vacations, at least for these Canadian families, may be different in some important ways from other forms of tourism

A backpacker habitus: the body and dress, embodiment and the self

As all cultures ‘dress’ the body through clothing, tattooing and other forms of body adornment such as cosmetics, dress offers a useful lens through which to explore the ways in which identities are constituted in modern leisure and tourism cultures. An analysis of the dress and embodied subjectivity of western backpackers in Nepal finds that dress is constitutive of self-identity and the ways backpackers imagine themselves. This study argues that dress remains an important aspect of a secondary socialization that, in an evolving process, leads to specific (western) backpacker habitus. The use of Pierre Bourdieu as a theoretical resource unravels the relationship between body and dress, embodiment and the self and shows how dress embellishes the body by adding an array of meanings within backpacking culture

DMO online platforms: Image and intention to visit

The online platforms (i.e., websites and social media) of Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) are among the most useful tools for building and promoting a destination image (DI). However, the associated effects on the DI have not been sufficiently studied and prior research has not assessed the influences of involvement on the DI formation process. The aim of this study is to explore the moderating effects of DMO online platforms on the DI through a conceptual model. The proposed model was empirically verified through an experiment and tested using PLS-SEM method. The findings demonstrate that tourist involvement has a positive impact on cognitive image and affective image, forming the DI as an antecedent of the intention to visit. The results also show that image formation and intention to visit the destination vary depending on the platform used by travelers to access the information