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so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at...
that work is negative and it is a task that is chosen rather than enforced or necessary. If this is considered in terms of the 196...
The Arts and Heritage section, for instance, lists the new...
easier. Sure, people are not chained to factories, but high priced executives, doctors, lawyers and people in high positions find ...
This paper discusses early 20th century leisure and work as conceptualized in urban America in a consideration of Kathy Peiss' 'Le...
the end of face-to-face communication (Stone, 1995). There were both positive and negative social side effects of the new technolo...
the society of sixteenth-century England. For example, the Utopian cities are all built on similar lines, at least as far as possi...
of work those appliance could not do. Giedions treatment of this spurt in technological advancement and how it did not provide it...
Peer Group Affiliation And Differences According To Residential Status, Subsistence Patterns, And Use Of Services" provide empiric...
The concept of information warfare is not new, it has been around for centuries, while cyber-terrorism is new. Despite this the tw...
home, because when we settle down to watch a DVD or film, play a game of Trivial Pursuit or even go outside to play catch, we are ...
The leisure industry is responsible for commodification when, for example, the demands of tourism come to be seen as dominating th...
2001). Current theory suggest that the disease initiates the internal cell-death programs which exists in neuronal cells (Marx, 2...
are the folks who tend to spend the most money at the hotel (the expense account is taking care of it, which is why)....
may serve as a foundations in which to build further successes. Hilton is an intentional company, and along with several subsidi...
environmentally damaging transportation. The chain is very long, and this extended in many directions, so in reality a true total ...
category refers to personal unexpected events, such as divorce or disability (Mannell and Kleiber, 1997). A major landmark study...
able to analyze Schors findings through a careful definition of the problem, understanding the extent of it, considering how it ca...
Bicentennial Authority, designed projects based on the theme of "Leisure in the Age of Technology" (Editor, 1990, p. 3). The diffe...
by movies (Fischer, 1994). Film-going would grow as would radio that first appeared in the 1920s (Fischer, 1994). It seems that b...
salon business remains quite healthy. Exposure cautions eventually extended to tanning beds as well, with the added caveat that n...
does not work for a paycheck is viewed as a freeloader. Yet, there are those who work and want to simply do recreation on the week...
agriculture is a priority and employment patterns are dependent upon it, leisure is not only constrained by the amount of "spare t...
Roosevelt and the Plaza, and then in 1945 there is the purchase of Palmer House and the Stevens in New York(Hilton Worldwide, 2010...
in 2011 handled 47.2 million passengers (Dubai Airports, 2011). Furthermore, airlines are making investments that will increase ca...
expansion was undertaken with the reaction of a wholly owned subsidiary; Hilton International Co. (Hilton, 2012). Hilton expanded ...
The writer examines the idea that increasing the level of diversity management in the hospitality and leisure industry may help t...
Those futurists dreams did indeed come to pass. In times past, the nuclear family consisted of a father who worked for money, a m...
the US soon spread and cars became more affordable and used in a wide range of ways. Convenience was a major factor, and it was i...
less and less are seniors retiring to go sit on the couch, while more often they are spending their golden years in sports-related...