Les Journ & eacute;es Olympiques de la Jeunesse Europ & eacute;ens (JOJE) d & eacute;passent le cadre d'une simple comp & eacute;tition sportive en incarnant une rencontre culturelle et olympique pour les jeunes. Port & eacute;e par des acteurs aux motivations compl & eacute;mentaires, l'Association des Comit & eacute;s Nationaux Olympiques (CNO) d'Europe se positionne comme un acteur central de l'Olympisme en Europe; le CIO y voit un moyen de rajeunir l'Olympisme; la Communaut & eacute; europ & eacute;enne est soucieuse de renforcer la coh & eacute;sion entre les & Eacute;tats membres. Les JOJE symbolisent une Europe unie par le sport. Leur cr & eacute;ation, fruit d'une collaboration entre plusieurs CNO, s'inscrit dans une volont & eacute; de promouvoir les valeurs olympiques tout en r & eacute;pondant & agrave; des enjeux & eacute;ducatifs et sociaux, comme en t & eacute;moigne l'engagement de Jacques Rogge, dont l'h & eacute;ritage se prolongera avec la cr & eacute;ation des Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse. Ainsi, les JOJE apparaissent comme un laboratoire innovant, & agrave; la fois ancr & eacute; dans l'histoire europ & eacute;enne et pr & eacute;curseur d'une dynamique mondiale pour la jeunesse.
Online travel agencies (OTAs) increasingly rely on user-generated reviews to shape consumer perceptions and influence booking decisions. This study analyses 5921 customer reviews collected from MouthShut.com, an independent review platform, to examine customer concerns and sentiments across multiple OTA platforms in India. Using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), key discussion themes were identified, followed by an aspect-level sentiment analysis to evaluate customer perceptions across critical service dimensions. The findings reveal notable variations in service performance across platforms, particularly in areas such as booking experience, pricing transparency, customer support, and refund processes. These variations highlight the role of expectation-performance alignment in shaping customer satisfaction within digital travel services. By integrating LDA topic modeling with sentiment analysis, this study contributes to the literature on online service experience. The findings offer actionable insights for OTAs to improve service reliability, enhance transparency, and reduce friction in the customer journey. Les agences de voyages en ligne (OTA) s'appuient de plus en plus sur les avis g & eacute;n & eacute;r & eacute;s par les utilisateurs pour fa & ccedil;onner les perceptions des consommateurs et influencer les d & eacute;cisions de r & eacute;servation. Cette & eacute;tude analyse 5 921 avis clients recueillis sur MouthShut.com, une plateforme d'avis ind & eacute;pendante, afin d'examiner les pr & eacute;occupations et les sentiments des clients & agrave; travers plusieurs plateformes OTA en Inde. & Agrave; l'aide de l'allocation de Dirichlet latente (LDA), les principaux th & egrave;mes de discussion ont & eacute;t & eacute; identifi & eacute;s, suivis d'une analyse de sentiment au niveau des aspects afin d'& eacute;valuer les perceptions des clients selon des dimensions cl & eacute;s du service. Les r & eacute;sultats r & eacute;v & egrave;lent des variations notables dans la performance des services entre les diff & eacute;rentes plateformes, notamment en ce qui concerne l'exp & eacute;rience de r & eacute;servation, la transparence des prix, le service client et les processus de remboursement. Ces & eacute;carts mettent en & eacute;vidence le r & ocirc;le de l'alignement entre les attentes et la performance dans la formation de la satisfaction des clients au sein des services de voyage num & eacute;riques. En int & eacute;grant la mod & eacute;lisation th & eacute;matique LDA & agrave; l'analyse des sentiments, cette & eacute;tude contribue & agrave; la litt & eacute;rature sur l'exp & eacute;rience des services en ligne. Sur le plan pratique, les r & eacute;sultats offrent des pistes d'action concr & egrave;te pour les OTA afin d'am & eacute;liorer la fiabilit & eacute; des services, renforcer la transparence et r & eacute;duire les frictions dans le parcours client.
Malgr & eacute; son potentiel strat & eacute;gique, le tourisme patrimonial demeure marqu & eacute; par une valorisation in & eacute;gale des sites souvent r & eacute;alis & eacute;e sans r & eacute;elle prise en compte des attentes exp & eacute;rientielles des visiteurs. Cette recherche, fond & eacute;e sur l'analyse de 1 067 avis recueillis sur TripAdvisor, mobilise l'analyse des donn & eacute;es textuelles par le logiciel Sphinx afin d'examiner la typologie des sites et des pr & eacute;f & eacute;rences exp & eacute;rientielles des visiteurs en mati & egrave;re d'aspirations, d'exp & eacute;riences et de valeurs. Les r & eacute;sultats mettent en & eacute;vidence une typologie des sites patrimoniaux et quatre profils distincts de touristes : les Consommateurs, les Cultureux, les Sacs & agrave; dos et les Esth & egrave;tes-urbains dont les aspirations varient selon la nature des sites visit & eacute;s. Cette approche dyadique ouvre des perspectives manag & eacute;riales pour une adaptation plus fine de l'offre, un enrichissement de l'exp & eacute;rience touristique et la co-cr & eacute;ation de valeur autour du patrimoine. Despite its strategic potential, heritage tourism remains characterized by uneven site valorization, often implemented without adequately considering visitors' experiential expectations. This research, based on the analysis of 1067 online reviews collected from TripAdvisor, employs textual data analysis using Sphinx software to examine site typologies and visitors' experiential preferences in terms of aspirations, lived experiences, and underlying values. The findings reveal a typology of heritage sites and identify four distinct tourist profiles: Consumers, Culture-Oriented Visitors, Backpackers, and Urban Aesthetes, whose aspirations vary according to the nature of the sites visited. This dyadic perspective offers managerial implications for a more nuanced adaptation of the tourism offering, the enrichment of visitor experiences, and a co-creation of value around heritage assets.
Leisure is a key aspect of integration for immigrants. Therefore, municipalities that wish to promote an inclusive society need up-to-date information about immigrants' leisure needs, as well as reliable sources to obtain this information, so that they can adjust leisure offerings to meet the greatest needs. This study addresses these two major issues by obtaining up-to-date information about immigrants' leisure needs in Montreal and testing two methods of data collection: qualitative semi-structured interviews with practitioners experienced in immigrants' leisure and questionnaires with open- ended questions completed by 158 recent immigrants. Results show that the key leisure needs of new immigrants include information about available leisure activities and more opportunities to gain skills in popular recreational activities in Montreal, such as swimming, cycling, skating, and other winter sports. The comparison of data obtained from practitioners and that obtained from immigrants confirmed the reliability of practitioners as a source of information. Les loisirs sont un aspect essentiel de l'int & eacute;gration des immigrants. Les municipalit & eacute;s qui souhaitent promouvoir une soci & eacute;t & eacute; inclusive ont besoin d'informations sur les besoins des immigrants en mati & egrave;re de loisirs, ainsi que de sources fiables pour obtenir ces informations afin d'adapter l'offre de loisirs aux besoins. Cette & eacute;tude obtient des informations sur les besoins des immigrants et test deux m & eacute;thodes de collecte de donn & eacute;es : les entretiens qualitatifs semi-structur & eacute;s avec des praticiens exp & eacute;riment & eacute;s dans le domaine des loisirs pour immigrants et de questionnaires & agrave; questions ouvertes remplis par 158 immigrants r & eacute;cents. Les r & eacute;sultats montrent que les principaux besoins des immigrants comprennent des informations sur les activit & eacute;s disponibles et davantage d'opportunit & eacute;s d'acqu & eacute;rir des comp & eacute;tences dans les activit & eacute;s r & eacute;cr & eacute;atives & agrave; Montr & eacute;al, telles que la natation, le cyclisme, le patinage. La comparaison des donn & eacute;es obtenues aupr & egrave;s des professionnels et des immigrants a confirm & eacute; la fiabilit & eacute; des professionnels en tant que source d'informations.
Cet article propose une red & eacute;finition du jeu comme libert & eacute; stylistique au sein des activit & eacute;s libres, d & eacute;passant les crit & egrave;res classiques de fiction, gratuit & eacute; et improductivit & eacute; h & eacute;rit & eacute;s de Huizinga et Caillois. Articul & eacute;e & agrave; la sociologie du singularisme (Reckwitz), cette approche montre comment le jeu persiste dans des activit & eacute;s rationalis & eacute;es (sports amateur, arts, speedruns) inh & eacute;rentes au serious leisure (Stebbins), r & eacute;conciliant cr & eacute;ativit & eacute;, discipline et authenticit & eacute;. Alors que les th & eacute;ories classiques du jeu et du loisir opposent radicalement libert & eacute; ludique et effort productif, la libert & eacute; stylistique r & eacute;v & egrave;le leur compl & eacute;mentarit & eacute;. This article proposes a redefinition of play as stylistic freedom within freely chosen activities, moving beyond the classical criteria of fiction, gratuity, and unproductivity inherited from Huizinga and Caillois. Linked with the sociology of singularities (Reckwitz), this approach demonstrates how play persists in rationalized activities (amateur sports, arts, speedruns) inherent in serious leisure (Stebbins), reconciling creativity, discipline, and authenticity. Whereas classical theories of play and leisure radically oppose ludic freedom and productive effort, stylistic freedom reveals their complementarity.
This study explores how organizations in the social tourism sector in France have evolved in response to the socio-economic context they have encountered, as well as how they have preserved the values of solidarity in their structure and operations from their creation to the present day. Nevertheless, existing studies do not fully explain how social tourism organizations have gradually transformed to cope with market constraints while maintaining their mission of solidarity. How was this resilience built over time, and how does it manifest in contemporary practices? A detailed analysis of organizational models in social tourism therefore appears necessary to understand how these institutions combine their historic mission of solidarity with the current requirements of economic viability. Cette recherche explore la mani & egrave;re dont les organisations du secteur du tourisme social en France ont & eacute;volu & eacute; en r & eacute;ponse au contexte socio-& eacute;conomique qu'elles ont rencontr & eacute;, ainsi que la fa & ccedil;on dont elles ont pr & eacute;serv & eacute; les valeurs de solidarit & eacute; dans leur structure et leur fonctionnement, de leur cr & eacute;ation jusqu'& agrave; aujourd'hui. N & eacute;anmoins, les travaux existants n'expliquent pas pleinement comment les structures du tourisme social se sont progressivement transform & eacute;es pour faire face aux contraintes du march & eacute; tout en maintenant leur mission de solidarit & eacute;. Comment cette r & eacute;silience s'est-elle construite au fil du temps, et comment se manifeste-t-elle dans les pratiques contemporaines? Une analyse d & eacute;taill & eacute;e des mod & egrave;les organisationnels du tourisme social appara & icirc;t donc n & eacute;cessaire pour comprendre comment ces institutions concilient leur mission historique de solidarit & eacute; avec les exigences actuelles de viabilit & eacute; & eacute;conomique.
The emergence of social classes is linked to the former division of labor, where roles were assigned based on individual skills. In social sciences, values are essential for understanding societal dynamics, while service quality is a key factor for business success and customer loyalty. Loyalty, expressed through repeated participation and recommendations, is particularly important in sport organizations. This study examined the relationship between loyalty, perceived service quality, and social and family values among lower-middle-class individuals participating in dance activities. A sample of 1,563 adult men and women from dance organizations across Greece participated in the study. Data were collected through questionnaires measuring social and family values, service quality, and loyalty. Social class was classified using distinctions from social theory. Correlation analysis revealed significant relationships among variables. The findings show that loyalty in dance activities is associated with perceived service quality, while family and social values have weaker but meaningful influences. L'& eacute;mergence des classes sociales est li & eacute;e & agrave; la division du travail, o & ugrave; les r & ocirc;les & eacute;taient attribu & eacute;s selon les comp & eacute;tences individuelles. En sciences sociales, les valeurs sont essentielles pour comprendre les dynamiques soci & eacute;tales, tandis que la qualit & eacute; de service constitue un facteur cl & eacute; du succ & egrave;s des entreprises et de la fid & eacute;lit & eacute; des clients. La fid & eacute;lit & eacute;, exprim & eacute;e par la participation r & eacute;p & eacute;t & eacute;e et les recommandations, est particuli & egrave;rement importante dans les organisations sportives. Cette & eacute;tude examine la relation entre la fid & eacute;lit & eacute;, la qualit & eacute; de service per & ccedil;ue ainsi que les valeurs sociales et familiales chez des individus de la classe moyenne inf & eacute;rieure participant & agrave; des activit & eacute;s de danse. Un & eacute;chantillon de 1,563 hommes et femmes adultes issus d'organisations de danse & agrave; travers la Gr & egrave;ce a particip & eacute; & agrave; l'& eacute;tude. Les donn & eacute;es ont & eacute;t & eacute; recueillies & agrave; l'aide de questionnaires portant sur les valeurs sociales et familiales, la qualit & eacute; de service et la fid & eacute;lit & eacute;. L'analyse de corr & eacute;lation a r & eacute;v & eacute;l & eacute; des relations significatives entre les variables & eacute;tudi & eacute;es.
Between 1950 and 1960, the French authorities and Olympic bodies initiated a series of commemorative events aimed at rehabilitating the figure of Pierre de Coubertin, particularly in the runup to the centenary of his birth in 1963. This resurgence of interest raises the question: why such enthusiasm when his initiatives had been downplayed or even ignored during his lifetime? This paradox between past indifference and belated celebration calls for an analysis of the underlying motivations behind this commemorative undertaking, as well as the actors involved in it. Entre 1950 et 1960, les autorit & eacute;s fran & ccedil;aises et les instances olympiques initient un ensemble d'actions comm & eacute;moratives visant & agrave; r & eacute;habiliter la figure de Pierre de Coubertin, notamment & agrave; l'approche du centenaire de sa naissance en 1963. Cette r & eacute;surgence m & eacute;morielle interroge : pourquoi un tel engouement, alors que ses initiatives avaient & eacute;t & eacute; minimis & eacute;es, voire ignor & eacute;es de son vivant? Ce paradoxe entre l'indiff & eacute;rence pass & eacute;e et la c & eacute;l & eacute;bration tardive invite & agrave; analyser les motivations sous-jacentes de cette entreprise m & eacute;morielle, ainsi que les acteurs qui la portent.
The leisure field has in recent years undertaken an 'animal' turn to recognize that society contains more-than-human participants. This has seen the field delve into the study of multispecies entanglements, which includes those practices where human and nonhuman animals are actively in coexistence. Such research into multispecies entanglements needs to focus on the historical as much as the contemporary practices of leisure. However, the presence of nonhuman animals in the historical records of society is influenced and determined by power that can exclude or, at the very least, marginalize nonhuman animals. In this paper, therefore, the authors examine how archives contain a power that silences and hides the nonhuman animal presence through critical reflection on the searching of an archive and face-to-face communication with archival staff. It aims to demonstrate that speciesism power requires challenging if archives are to reflect nonhuman animals' contributions to society and inform leisure scholarship. Le champ des loisirs a connu ces derni & egrave;res ann & eacute;es un & laquo; tournant animal & raquo; visant & agrave; reconna & icirc;tre que la soci & eacute;t & eacute; comprend des participants plus-qu'humains. Cela a conduit ce champ & agrave; s'engager dans l'& eacute;tude des enchev & ecirc;trements multiesp & egrave;ces, qui incluent des pratiques dans lesquelles les humains et les animaux non humains coexistent activement. De telles recherches sur les enchev & ecirc;trements multiesp & egrave;ces doivent porter autant sur les pratiques historiques que sur les pratiques contemporaines des loisirs. Cependant, la pr & eacute;sence des animaux non humains dans les archives historiques de la soci & eacute;t & eacute; est influenc & eacute;e et d & eacute;termin & eacute;e par des rapports de pouvoir qui peuvent exclure ou, & agrave; tout le moins, marginaliser les animaux non humains. Dans cet article, les auteurs examinent donc comment les archives rec & egrave;lent un pouvoir qui fait taire et dissimule la pr & eacute;sence des animaux non humains, & agrave; travers une r & eacute;flexion critique sur la recherche en archives et la communication en face & agrave; face avec le personnel archivistique. L'article vise & agrave; montrer que le pouvoir du sp & eacute;cisme doit & ecirc;tre remis en question si l'on veut que les archives refl & egrave;tent les contributions des animaux non humains & agrave; la soci & eacute;t & eacute; et & eacute;clairent les travaux en sciences des loisirs.
Canada and the United States have an abundance of public lands and natural resources that offer significant actual and potential opportunities for outdoor activity. Public land and natural resource management in Canada and the US differs in terms of governance structures, funding mechanisms, and management methods. The objective of this article is to explore and present the different approaches to governance and management of outdoor recreation and public lands in the two countries and discuss the challenges linked to these approaches as they relate to the management of natural resources and outdoor recreation. A literature review was carried out using the available academic literature, government reports and literature, and the various government websites. Canada has a much more coherent national vision, while the US has much more information available for decision-making.
This paper conceptualizes the role of media theories in optimizing mental health, with specific focus on emotional wellbeing in association with social justice outcomes affecting marginalized groups. Drawing on cultural studies and the concept of spectacle, opportunities to optimize mental health may emerge through acknowledging existing bodies of scholarship on negative media-related impacts. Theoretical analyses highlight dialectical tensions through which creative media may facilitate self-expression, community-building, and emotional respite - but simultaneously impact mental wellbeing via isolation or reduced human connections. Key opportunities to promote mental health may exist in terms of safeguarding marginalized voices from silencing in the field of creative production, as well as optimizing equitable access to creative media through intervening against the digital divide. Existing theories of creative media highlight intersections with marginalization arising from race, gender, socioeconomic class, Indigenous ancestry, or disability; in response, opportunities to advance equity in mental-health are conceptualized in a preliminary framework.
After years of experiencing staff-participant engagements with disabled participants in community recreation programs, the author was drawn to more carefully consider some of the ableist pitfalls that support personnel in short-term community recreation programs can easily fall into while doing care work. The purpose of this conceptual paper was to outline how to be a caring leader for disabled participants in community recreation contexts in an ethical and anti-ableist way. As a non-disabled scholar-activist-practitioner, the author writes this paper informed by critical disability studies perspectives and acknowledging that the strategies shared for better ways to do care work originate from disabled people but are ultimately filtered through his specific lens of privilege. Centering disabled perspectives, care in care work is defined followed by some practical suggestions for providing care in a way that forefronts power disparities between non-disabled and disabled parties.
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of youth sport experiences on long-term sport engagement from the perspective of leisure constraints theory. Data (N = 200) were collected using a retrospective survey targeting adults who had participated mainly in either recreational or competitive youth sports. The results of the mediation analysis indicated that those who participated in competitive youth sports were more likely to engage in sports during adulthood compared with those who participated in recreational youth sports. However, recreational youth sport participants reported higher enjoyment, which led to continued sport engagement into adulthood, compared with competitive youth sport participants. This study expands the utility of leisure constraints theory by applying structural and intrapersonal factors to the youth sport context and advances the literature on youth sport participation. It also offers practical implications by highlighting key aspects to be emphasized in youth sport programming. Cette & eacute;tude examine l'impact des exp & eacute;riences sportives de jeunesse sur l'engagement sportif & agrave; long terme & agrave; partir de la th & eacute;orie des contraintes li & eacute;es aux loisirs. Les donn & eacute;es (N = 200) proviennent d'une enqu & ecirc;te r & eacute;trospective men & eacute;e aupr & egrave;s d'adultes ayant pratiqu & eacute; surtout des sports r & eacute;cr & eacute;atifs ou comp & eacute;titifs durant leur jeunesse. Les r & eacute;sultats de l'analyse de m & eacute;diation montrent que les personnes ayant particip & eacute; & agrave; des sports comp & eacute;titifs sont plus susceptibles de rester engag & eacute;es dans le sport & agrave; l'& acirc;ge adulte que celles issues des sports r & eacute;cr & eacute;atifs. Toutefois, les participants aux sports r & eacute;cr & eacute;atifs ont d & eacute;clar & eacute; un niveau de plaisir plus & eacute;lev & eacute;, ce qui a favoris & eacute; la poursuite de l'engagement sportif & agrave; l'& acirc;ge adulte. Cette & eacute;tude montre que des facteurs structurels et intrapersonnels contribuent conjointement & agrave; expliquer l'engagement sportif & agrave; long terme et souligne l'importance d'int & eacute;grer le plaisir dans la programmation des sports de jeunesse.
L'int & eacute;r & ecirc;t de l'article est de montrer le processus de mise en tourisme de la for & ecirc;t p & eacute;riurbaine comme une bascule du bien commun au bien club, compris selon des logiques de rivalit & eacute; et d'usage exclusif. Le territoire & eacute;tudi & eacute; est celui de la for & ecirc;t usag & egrave;re de La Teste de Buch. Il s'agit d'une for & ecirc;t p & eacute;riurbaine et littorale situ & eacute;e & agrave; c & ocirc;t & eacute; du Bassin d'Arcachon, au pied de la dune du Pilat, un territoire attractif dans lequel les modes d'appropriation se modifient sous la pression de l'imp & eacute;ratif de valorisation du foncier. Les & eacute;volutions socio-& eacute;conomiques de la for & ecirc;t sont & eacute;tudi & eacute;es au prisme de la classification des biens propos & eacute;s par Elinor Ostrom. & Agrave; partir de cette & eacute;tude de cas, l'auteur montre qu'en for & ecirc;t p & eacute;riurbaine la << clubbisation >> est le r & eacute;sultat de la mise en tourisme, comprise comme une dynamique historique particuli & egrave;re du d & eacute;veloppement des rapports sociaux de production de l'espace. This article aims to show the process of developing tourism in the suburban forest as a shift from the common good to the club good, understood according to the logic of rivalry and exclusive use. The area studied is the user forest of La Teste de Buch. This is a suburban, coastal forest located next to the Arcachon Basin, at the foot of the Dune of Pilat, an attractive area in which modes of appropriation are changing under the pressure of the imperative to increase land value. The socio-economic evolution of the forest is examined through the prism of Elinor Ostrom's classification of goods. Based on this case study, the author shows that "clubbisation" in suburban forests is the result of tourism and understood as a particular historical dynamic in the development of social relations for the production of space.
