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    providing travel services to leisure travellers in Australia and overseas‚ including flights‚ travel insurance‚ holiday packaged deals‚ and freight business. Products segments including ▪ Business travel ▪ 57.1% of industry revenue ▪ full-fare ▪ business & government travellers ▪ growth of video conference (-) impact on growth ▪ unit value of sale/pax double leisure travel fare ▪ Leisure travel ▪ 29.4% of industry revenue ▪ low-fare ▪ leisure travellers ▪ price is

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    this may be true‚ it remains one of the popular ways in which ordinary people spend their leisure and recreational activities. In fact‚ there are tens of millions of collectors in the North America and certainly hundreds of million collections globally. The decade stamps of Jesse Owens were to honored the five gold Olympians at 1936 Olympic in Berlin‚ Germany. In fact‚ this fits my definition of leisure because I spend a lot of time outdoors on the track and field exercising to stay fit and healthy

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    One of the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in society are people with an intellectual disability. Developmentally delayed individuals need a wide range of leisure programmes to choose from. The principle of Normalization has led to equal rights for people with special needs. Providing people with inclusive leisure programmes with non-disabled persons assists with their socialisation. However‚ lack of tolerance in the community at large‚ financial constraints‚ difficulties in accessing transport

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    Developments The Decline of Public Life‚ Commercializing Leisure and Recreation; Formalizing Recreation: Organization over spontaneity are the three developments that have brought about the change in leisure time. The Decline of Public Life is a development in which Richard Sennett argues that modernity has seen the fall of public man‚ as people more and more seek refuge in “ties of family or intimate association” (Sennett 1977). Leisure has been affected in far-reaching ways. Migration to the

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    fueled several perspectives about the future and current state of society at the time. Charlotte Gilman‚ for example‚ used Darwinian evolution to challenge the future of women’s roles in society in Women and Economics. Veblen’s The Theory of The Leisure Class used evolutionary thought to criticize society’s atavism to a barbaric past. Freud‚ in his novel Civilization and its Discontents‚ applied evolution to his psychoanalysis of civilization to explain how a civilized environment creates an individual’s

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    Typical Travelling Types

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    Typical Travelling Types From the www.alah.com website there are three main types of travellers. The first would be the business traveller‚ another would be the persons who travel for leisure‚ and the last would be the international traveller. From what I have learned there are different lodgings for each type of traveller. The business traveller is typically alone. From what the statistics show this type of traveller is usually a male‚ between the ages of thirty five and fifty four. They are

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    Work and non-work relation

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    will then be critically evaluated. Next‚ a critical evaluation on the threefold typology (extension‚ opposition‚ neutrality) of work non-work relationship shall be presented. For the better understanding of the work-leisure relationship‚ work load and technological impact on leisure shall be described with critiques and evidences by several writers. Then‚ work-life balance‚ with the role of women in workplace will be discussed. Next‚ Complexity of relationships‚ mutual interference between family

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    radical way. This brought new innovations to the United States‚ which led people have more leisure time than ever before. At that time‚ leisure was an activity people wanted to do because it didn’t implicate working‚ due to all the hard work during World War II. Leisure time flourished‚ largely due to technological innovations. In the early 1950s‚ the American population was in real need of entertainment and leisure time. This need was accompanied by some new changes in the way we entertain ourselves

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    relative to leisure‚ so the indifference curve is relatively flat. As the wage increases‚ the income constraint line rotates clockwise‚ and we would expect a relatively large increase in hours worked. This response is dominated by a substitution effect‚ but there may be a small income effect working in the direction of increased leisure. b) The wealthy who have acquired an abundance of material goods and who now aspire to be members of the idle rich: This group values leisure highly relative

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    Classical Rome employed leisure time productively and incorporated many pleasurable activities such as public games‚ religious festivles‚ chariot racing...ect. Public entertainment in particular played an important role in Rome and to a large extent‚ in the province as well.14 Originally public games (ludi) were held at some religious festivals‚ but gradually the entertainment aspect became more important and the number of annual games increased.15 Chariot racing was the oldest and most popular entertainment

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