Tourism Insight

Leisure Studies, Volume 27 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworldTM. This new issue contains the following articles:

• ‘Power to the paddlers’? The internet, governance and discipline by Paul Gilchrist and Neil Ravenscroft

• The carnival goes on and on! Children’s perceptions of their leisure time and play in SFO by Maria Øksnes

• Triathlon, suffering and exciting significance by Michael Atkinson

• Evolution and implications of a paradigm shift in the marketing of leisure services in the USA by John L. Crompton

• New meaning for the emotional state of the elderly, from a leisure standpoint by Gisele Maria Schwartz and Jossett Campagna

• On using concept-maps to study school-children’s understanding of leisure-time by Peter Edward Gill and Mariann Persson

• The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail: myths of scientific racism and the pursuit of excellence in sport by Karl Spracklen

Read the abstracts and access the articles here

Published by Routledge, this issue of Leisure Studies, Volume 27, Issue 1, includes the following articles:

• Tragedy in the Adventure Playground: Media Representations of Mountaineering Accidents in New Zealand by Lee Davidson

• De-exoticizing Tourist Travel: Everyday Life and Sociality on the Move by Jonas Larsen

• The Role of Moral Philosophies, Operational Criteria and Operational Strategies in Determining Equitable Allocation of Resources for Leisure Services in the United States by John L. Crompton and Stephanie T. West

• Leisure and the Obligation of Self-Work: An Examination of the Fitness Field by Jennifer Smith Maguire

• Rethinking Resistance: The Queer Play of the Women’s National Basketball Association, Visibility Politics and Late Capitalism by Mary G. McDonald