Chapter Five: The Cultural Analysis of Outdoor Leisure in the Select Field Cities
1. Introduction
In the last chapter, the development of outdoor leisure practices in the selected cities is in tamed with the transformations of Chinese government economic strategies. With increasing disposable money, overall increased spare time compared with Maoist era, health conscious as well as the negative consequences caused by modernization in terms of high pressure of working condition with high trade-off leisure time, psychic tensions caused by overwhelming highly increase of commodity price against the comparatively slow growth of personal income, and deteriorating urban environment, all these pave a way for necessity for an alternative way of urban living. Meanwhile, confronting with the consecutive seven years slow down growth of GDP as well as increasing expand tensions by disparities spreading from cities and rural, and from coastal and inland, this is mainly caused by both global economic crises as well as Party-State’s imbalanced economic strategies particularly on prioritizing for exportation and neglecting the importance of domestic consumption. In order to pacify the domestic tensions, sustaining its economic growth rate and maintaining its ruling legitimacy, outdoor leisure, which has the tourism characters in traveling in the remote nature beauty areas most near the rural areas as well as its sports characteristics in physical activities during the travel accompanied
This report also covers the nature and characteristics of a given segment of the leisure or events industry, what economic impact towards society using PESTLE to specify these aspects and also what skills required of managers in the segment mention on this topic.
Qingdao is a beautiful and fascinating city,it surrounded on three sides by mountains and the sea, beautiful scenery and pleasant weather,as well as special history, which has made it become a famous tourist resort of China in the early 20th Century. The urban scenery of blue sea and clear sky of Qingdao has not only the multi-style architecture of the European style of the old city, but also the former residence of the celebrities who enrich the modern history and culture. Modernlization holiday conditions make Qingdao become the most beautiful seaside scenic spot in china and famous holiday, leisure, sightseeing, business and Exhibition destination both at home and abroad.So,it is less doubt Qingdao is a tourist’s best choice to spend a fun holiday.
I used to equate recreation, leisure, and play with laziness and unproductiveness, but taking this class has broadened my view of these terms and helped me to conceptualize my pre-existing beliefs and develop my philosophy.
For the purpose of this study the researcher will observe the leisure programs and take notes. The first part of this process will be taking note of observations, which includes where the activity takes place, who is running it, how many participants have shown up, and the level of participation. The researcher will note any differences in the environment from previous sessions as well in order to analyze what made participants engage more or less than previous sessions. Badenhorst (2008) suggests that the researcher should also take pictures or drawings of the room so long as the participants and leisure professional have given permission. This is to be better able to reflect on the situation when it comes time to analyze the data (Badenhorst, 2008). During this process the researcher needs to be as detailed as possible, were the participants smiling during the session? Were the participants socializing? What was being said during the socialization? Every participant in the room needs to be written about from the beginning of the session until the end of the session (Badenhorst, 2008). It is important to note if something happened that might impact their participation, for example, did they have a medical procedure that morning that affected their participation that afternoon? When taking notes the researcher needs
Almost everyone has some kind of leisure time whether it is a couple hours or a couple days. What varies is the type of recreational activities people choose to do during that time. Although leisure and recreation is chosen based on ones unique individual interests, there are many sociocultural factors that influence the type of recreational activities we do, when we do it and how often we do it. These factors include political,
The current circumstance might bring a short-term substantial tourism income to the country. However, marketing department haven’t realized that the promotion method is actually breaking the eco system, which will lead to long-term negative effects to the parks for both environmental and economic aspects. Developing the infrastructure of parks such as building bike path is understandable in terms of the marketing aspect, is increasing the satisfaction of visitors. By innovating different program regularly might attract people who had visited to come again. In a way, it is an efficient way to increase the number of visitors. Nevertheless, ignoring the regulations and negative consequences are
Culture, ethnicity and race affects people's leisure choices in a variety of ways. First of all, culture affects people's leisure choices such as people in the India or Afghanistan are famous for playing cricket. Race and ethnicity also affects my personal leisure choices based on my cultural and religious views. Living in a diverse society, with racists and different ethnic backgrounds we have different views of leisure. Education, income, employment, race and beliefs affect everyone’s leisure choices. For example, more wealthier individuals like to play golf. Golf is considered to a sport for rich people and
After the emergence of travel, trade and the exchange of commodities dated back in the early civilizations there has been a developing trend in the economic, environmental and socio-cultural phenomenon. People began to travel for their livelihood, leisure, for a specific purpose or to discover different destinations. This gave birth to the tourism which comprises of transportation, accommodation, attraction & hospitality and the service along with trade. This makes tourism an industry which provides economic growth to the destination. The main purpose of this essay is to identify the key factors of lifestyle entrepreneurs and understand why survival and maintaining a particular lifestyle is more important rather than earning profits.
Also, this study was limited to the participants in the Midwest area, and was not sampled by a probability method, so its generalization of the results given should be made with extreme caution. However, what this study was able to prove is the idea that those who participate in the Senior Games in the Midwest area tend to participate in active sport tourism regularly. They also tend to portray healthier lifestyles and benefit through social rewards. Serious leisure itself is represented by six defining qualities: perseverance, significant effort, career development, durable benefits, expression of self and identity, and unique ethos. The sport tourism indicators used in this study would include significant effort, career development, and durable benefits. These indicators reflect the training hours, miles traveled, money spent, years of participation, and number of people involved with the participant. It might not be clear as to the relationship between serious leisure and sport tourism, but just to clear things up; a tourist is someone who has traveled at least 50 miles. The fact that they travel to enjoy a sport makes them a sport tourist. The average distance traveled by those who participated in the Senior Games is 115 miles. Since these individuals actually participated in the games, they participated in leisure. This study was done to show how many of those who participated are active on a regular basis, and this was done by conducting a survey of the participants. The results of the surveyed were able to prove the idea that the majority of those involved were more likely to live physically active lives that contribute to the sport tourism industry. These results will benefit people who are looking for ways to involve and reach out to those ages 65 and older, and
In this essay, I will be looking closely at leisure activities from both the ancient world, and the modern one, and discussing how social status impacted on the way people experienced leisure. I will start by discussing leisure amongst the Romans, giving brief examples of what they did for leisure, then moving on to talk about if, or how, social status amongst them affected their experience of it. Then, I will move on to discuss leisure in the modern world, again, giving brief examples of what we do for leisure, then talking about whether or not social status affects how we experience it.
Leisure plays a vital and important part in the human development of a person during all stages of the human lifespan. The key concepts that help define and form an understanding of leisure include: Experiences, self-expression, personality, commitment, need, identity, and constraint and motivation choices. These factors express that leisure helps an individual to develop their identity and aids in shaping the sort of person they are going to be, when developing, an individual’s leisure adapts.
However, the state regulates leisure, determining what can be seen, and how public spaces can be used. “In relation to both body and state of mind, the state has pushed policies aimed at drawing subordinate social groups into ‘rational recreation’ in order to curb the potential dangers
The only sound that filled my ears was my keyboard clicking as my fingers raced across it. I had been procrastinating from finishing this assignment all evening, but I knew I needed to get it done. The burning sunset was shining through the windows as I was finishing up. It was a peaceful silence, until I heard the soft whispers of my parents that ignited my sense of curiosity. I was concentrating hard; doing my best trying to make out the hushed words that were being spoken.
In the more developed world, every industry in the rapid development. This is a high-speed development in the 21st century, especially tourism and hospitality. It is a big trend in tourism industry, lots of people because Olympic Games, stars, attractions and movies are fascinated. Because of this kind of industry, it will be a high salary in tourism and hospitality. Also, it will increase income tax, marking, local communities, great attractions, historical staff and natural environment. This paper will talk about Olympic Games impact tourism and hospitality why they rise taxes and marketing, and why impact local communities in order to increase their international tourism and hospitality in the local society.
The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry