Carolin Lusby

Florida International University | FIU · Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management

Abstract Aim: Social distancing policies to combat the pandemic of COVID-19 directly impacted the physical activity (PA) index of the population. This study aimed to analyze the factors associated with insufficient leisure-time PA and the changing behavior of residents of the city of Sao Paulo, the epicenter of the pandemic in Brazil. Methods: The...

This paper critically examines the volunteer tourism industry. It looks at its history and rapid development in order to shed light on the dark side if this industry. It shows that volunteering can be exploitative and oftentimes fails to deliver benefits to local communities due to a focus on profit and the demand side. It also demonstrates how mea...

Recreational drug use is recognized by the World Health Organization as the consumption of alcoholic beverages, carried out by a portion of youth during leisure contexts. This research aimed at knowing the types of recreational drug use of a population of young Brazilian university students. This is an exploratory and quantitative research, develop...

This case study describes the lived experiences and perceived outcomes of participants of a WL Congress Field School. The hands-on field school, referred to as social residence, took place in the neighbourhood of Perus, in São Paulo, Brazil. The paper documents the history and importance of the community, which fights for culture and leisure throug...

Sports Tourism as a segment is growing exponentially in Brazil. The sports mega-events that occurred in the period from 2007 to 2016 helped strengthen this sector significantly. This article examined tourism mobility during the Summer Olympic Games Rio 2016, hosted by the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This study expands the understanding of the r...

This case study discusses an initiative to aid a traditional Quilombo community in the State of Rio de Janeiro through community-based tourism (CBT). Through the Young Leaders of Americas program, a US Department of State funded initiative, the authors worked together in Brazil and the United States to increase visibility, linkages and awareness of...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to discover the relative importance of influencing factors toward booking a cruise vacation. Based on a review of literature, this study focused on exploring the relative importance of six influential factors in cruise customers’ decision-making process: cruise vacation price, cruise duration, distance from the...

This study fills the gap in literature pertaining to consumer perceptions of cruise line sustainability. Based on Fishbein and Aijzen’s theory, this study examines attitudes and perceptions of cruise line consumers. The quantitative instrument was developed, tested, and uploaded to online cruise forums. Participants were asked about cruise history,...

This study examined the attitudes and perceptions of Chinese students studying in Macau and American students studying at a major public university in the USA. Through one-way analyses of variance, the two groups were compared regarding their perceptions and attitudes towards the tourism industry. The scale was adopted from previous studies and had...

Wind farm complexes have grown in popularity as a form of energy tourism, but to date there is a paucity of research that addresses tourist perceptions of wind farms as a form of special interest tourism (i.e. energy tourism). The scope of this study concentrated on determining and statistically profiling domestic tourists’ perceptions of wind farm...

This study investigated specialization theory [Bryan, H. (1979). Conflict in the great outdoors. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Publishing Company; Bryan, H. (2000). Recreation specialization revisited. Journal of Leisure Research, 31, 18–21] in ocean cruisers. Cruisers have quit their jobs and traded in their land-based life for a life afloat cruising...

The concept of community-based tourism (CBT) is not new, and definitions of CBT have proliferated in the years since Murphy (1985) expounded on the community involvement approach in tourism development. This study examined residents’ perceptions of CBT in Mawlamyine as a conduit for sustainable tourism amidst a climate of rapid economic and social...

As Aruba's main industry, tourism sustains its economy. To date much is known about the positive and negative sociocultural, economic and environmental impacts tourism has on host destinations. However, not much is known about the impact lodging has on the sea turtles in Aruba. The purpose of this study was to shed light on the effect of lodging fa...

This study investigated the alternative lifestyle of ocean cruising to learn about human satisfaction and well-being. Cruisers have made a conscious decision to quit their land-based life in an effort to lead a more self-determined and ultimately more satisfying lifestyle. Cruisers own their boats, live aboard and are constantly on the move to some...

This quantitative study aims to build upon previous qualitative research on ocean cruisers. Ocean cruisers have made a conscious decision to lead a more self-determined life on the ocean, often cutting all ties with the life they left back on land. “Cruisers” were defined by the following criteria: they owned their own boats, lived aboard and were...

Cruisers have made a conscious decision to quit their land-based life to lead a more self-determined lifestyle. They own their own boats, live aboard, and are constantly on the move. An interpretive research paradigm was used to investigate this alternative lifestyle. Through in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 25 cruisers, three categories o...

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This study examines scuba divers as a vital segment of the marine tourism market. To better understand scuba divers, motivation, expectations, and expectation outcomes were measured. A survey including 28 motivation statements adapted from the recreation experience preference scales was administered to 300 divers diving with different dive operator...

The study of community has received increasing attention from researchers in recent years. This study examined community within the subculture of ocean cruising. Cruisers have made a conscious decision to lead a more satisfying and self-determined life on the ocean, often cutting all ties with the life they left back on land. Cruisers own their own...