NDLI: An investigation of involvement in serious leisure, recreation specialization, and sport tourism of diving participants in Taiwan

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Author	Liu, Li-Wei Huang, Hui-Chuan Chang, Hsiao-Ming
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: Department of Kinesiology Health Leisure Studies, Chienkuo Technology University, No.1, Chiehshou North Road, Changhua City 500, Taiwan (R.O.C.) (Chang, Hsiao-Ming) \|\| Department of Recreational Sports Management, Yu Da University, No. 168, Hsueh-fu Rd., Tanwen Village, Chaochiao Township, Miaoli County, 361 Taiwan (R.O.C) (Huang, Hui-Chuan) \|\| Department of Sport, Health and Leisure, Aletheia University, No. 70-11, Beishiliao, Madou Dist., Tainan City 721, Taiwan (R.O.C.) (Liu, Li-Wei)
Abstract	This study aimed at exploring the factors that affected diving participants to engage in sport tourism. The structure of this research and the survey instrument were developed based upon theories and empirical analysis research that were concerning serious leisure, recreation specialization, and sport tourism. The research subjects were the diving participants in Taiwan who were investigated by adopting questionnaire survey instrument in the study. The Distribution and collection questionnaires were processed on site at the recreation areas and at diving centers as well; a total of 341 valid questionnaires were collected. Based on statistical analysis, this study found as follows: (1) Serious leisure, recreational specialization, and sport tourism were positively correlated. (2) There were significant differences existed in the different demographic characteristics of participants in diving. Based on the findings, suggestions were given on operations for practitioners in water-based recreation industry, and the scarcity of present reference that called for the development of future studies on the domain of adventure recreation was implicated.
Starting Page	220
Ending Page	223
File Size	113121
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467306553
e-ISBN	9781467306546
DOI	10.1109/ICIMTR.2012.6236392
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-05-21
Publisher Place	Malaysia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Technological innovation Correlation Sport tourism Serious leisure Recreational specialization Educational institutions Diving Electronic mail Reliability Analysis of variance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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