his use of a chartered train in 1841 to transport tourists from Loughborough to Leicester. Before the 1950s, tourism in Europe was mainly a domestic activity with some international travel between countries, mainly within continental Europe By the early 21st century, international tourism had become one of the world’s most important economic activities. The history of tourism is therefore of great interest and importance. That history begins long before the coinage of the word tourist at the end of
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Leisure Participation Plan Name of Activity: • Fishing Brief description of activity: • Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish by either hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping. Fish are normally caught in the wild from either a boat or from land, like on a pier. Ages, cultures and populations that typically participate in the activity: • Fishing has been around for centuries. It is an activity that crosses all ages, all cultures around the world, and all socioeconomic
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BTEC Edexcel Level 2 BTEC First Certificate and Edexcel Level 2 BTEC First Diplomas in Sport For first teaching from September 2006 Issue 2 March 2007 Specification Edexcel Level 2 BTEC First Certificate and Edexcel Level 2 BTEC First Diplomas in Sport Edexcel, a Pearson company, is the UK’s largest awarding body offering academic and vocational qualifications and testing to more than 25,000 schools, colleges, employers and other places of learning here and in over 100 countries worldwide
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anything at all, because everything contains animal ingredients, it might in some cases be seen as an insult to the host. In any case, the one not eating with the rest is not part of the social act of eating, hence not part of the most important social activity at the gathering. Durkheim describes a social fact as invisible and says that they become apparent only when challenged. He further describes how the indicator can be sanctions - social or legal. In my case, I was a vegan for two years. During these
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classes have access to a variety of activities and adult interaction that causes parents to treat them differently than working and poor class families treat their children, known as “concerted cultivation”. For example, leisure activities partaken by children in the upper and middle classes are supervised by the parents while the working and poor class children engage in unsupervised activities which force them to organize their own time and decipher which activities are given lesser priorities. As
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Our team was a given a task to research college students on leisure travel focusing on price. Throughout our project we collected data using qualitative, quantitative, and secondary data. For the qualitative research part we conducted a focus group where we witnessed an interaction between five college students on their opinions on cost for leisure travel. Following the focus group we constructed a survey for our quantitative portion of our research. We input our findings from the surveys in a statistical
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The article titled Who Dies from Heart Disease? “New Research Defines Those at Highest Risk” 2011, is written by Meredith Melnick. She is a journalist for TIME Healthland online magazine. Her writings have appeared in the New York Daily News, The Record, House & Garden and on Newsweek.com, was a Digital Media Fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The author sets out to show that newly uncovered risk factors in heart disease may help doctors and patients to recognize those
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rules that affect people's behavior, and people's actual behavior. In the San kinship system, both family and kinship relationships are recognized and valued through the practice of marriage, sharing, and generalized reciprocity. Kinship also means time for socializing with kin and friends. Meals are prepared with the items from everyone’s hunting and gathering which allows everyone to share equally in what has been made available. Food is distributed until everyone is sufficiently supplied.
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Geography unit 4 Consuming the Rural Landscape – Leisure and Tourism Leisure: Freedom from time-consuming duties, responsibilities, or activities. Tourism: Temporary movement of people to destinations outside places where they normally live and work. Local Recreation: Surfing, hiking, exploring but it all involves your own local area Non-local Recreation: Going somewhere else to find activities e.g. surfing Business and recreational travel: Travel for pleasure e.g. city guides, coach
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toward play was ambivalent. Inclined to consider play an unworthy activity for adults, he seemed to suggest that intellectual play in some form, as demonstrated in the dialectical banter of Socrates, could provide a stimulus to understanding. Key words: education in ancient Greece; play and child development; play and education; play and Plato; Socratic dialectic Among various plausible misquotations that surface from time to time is a piece of popular wisdom attributed to Plato to the effect that
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