Search for dissertations about: "leisure and tourism"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words leisure and tourism.

2. 1. Count data modelling and tourism demand

   Author : Jörgen Hellström; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Time series; Count data; INARMA; Unit root; Aggregation; Forecasting; Tourism; Truncation; Inflation; Simulated maximum likelihood; Bivariate hurdle model.;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers concerning modelling of count data and tourism demand. For three of the papers the focus is on the integer-valued autoregressive moving average model class (INARMA), and especially on the ENAR(l) model. READ MORE

4. 2. Fields of Green and Gold : Territorial hunger, rural planning, and the political ecologies of high-end golf

   Author : Erik Jönsson; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political ecology; Tourism; Leisure; Rural Planning; Golf;

   Abstract : Fields of Green and Gold is a multiple case study analysing the placing and establishment of two large-scale, high-profile, upmarket golf developments with the aim of exploring a political ecology of high-end golf. The cases studied are Bro Hof Slott Golf Club in Upplands-Bro, opened in 2007, and Trump International Golf Links Scotland in Aberdeenshire, opened in 2012. READ MORE

5. 3. Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption : From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking

   Author : David Cardell; Anna Sparrman; Tom O’Dell; Cook Daniel Thomas; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Happy; emotions; childhood; time; money; value; amusement park; leisure; tourism; mesh; ethnography; Nöjespark; temapark; glädje; nöje; känslor; etnografi; fritid; turism; värde; konsumtion; barn; barndom; familj;

   Abstract : This book provides an ethnographic contribution to research on children’s consumption, family life and happiness. Various and shifting notions of happiness are explored, as well as conditions for and challenges to happiness, through an analysis of video-recorded interviews and mobile ethnography conducted in two of the most popular theme parks in Sweden. READ MORE

6. 4. German second home owners in the Swedish countryside : on the internationalization of the leisure space

   Author : Dieter K. Müller; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Tourism; second homes; countryside; Sweden; Germany; tourist motivation; innovation diffusion; integration; gentryfication; GIS;

   Abstract : Between 1991 and 1996 the number of German second home owners in Sweden increased from about 1,500 to more than 5,500. The purpose of this thesis is to give a comprehensive description and analysis of the German cottage purchases in Sweden, 1991-96. READ MORE

7. 5. Family, disability and (im)mobility : geographies of families with wheelchair-using children with cerebral palsy

   Author : Emma Landby; Kerstin Westin; Doris A. Carson; Örjan Pettersson; Eva Thulin; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; family; disability; mobility; time geography; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Abstract : Mobility is important in shaping people’s lives and experiences through places visited and social interactions with other people. In families with children, mobilities are usually complex and include negotiations between various family members, affecting how they move about in time-space. READ MORE