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Latest Articles: Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public HealthTWOProject MUSE®Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health2474-18332474-1825Latest articles in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health. Feed provided by Project MUSE®"We Only Run from the Police": A Qualitative Inquiry into the Lived Experiences of Black Runners
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/864647
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On February 23, 2020, while out for a run in his community, 25-year-old runner Ahmaud Arbery was pursued, shot, and killed in broad daylight by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael in Brunswick, Georgia. Suspicious of Arbery's behavior, both Gregory and Travis McMichael proceeded to stalk Ahmaud Aubrey while within their vehicle, eventually stopping Ahamed mid-run during their botched citizen's arrest. Ahmaud attempts to move past the vehicle, in which the McMichael's respond by pulling out a gun and shooting Ahamed, ultimately leading to his death. (Fausset, 2021)My mind immediately drifted to a past conversation I (Rowan Williams) had with a fellow Black runner a few years prior after initially hearing the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/827/image/coversmall"We Only Run from the Police": A Qualitative Inquiry into the Lived Experiences of Black Runners2022-09-17text/htmlen-US"We Only Run from the Police": A Qualitative Inquiry into the Lived Experiences of Black Runners2022-09-172022TWOProject MUSE®1084822026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002022-09-17A Three-Pronged Approach for Identifying Quality of Life and Well-Being Indicators in Parks
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The Charter of the City of Boulder (Colorado, USA) states that "Open space land shall be acquired, maintained, preserved, retained, and used" for "recreational value and its contribution to the quality of life of the community." Such mandates related to quality of life, health, and well-being are increasingly common for protected area administering-agencies (Allen & Newman, 2021). However, it can be challenging to decipher which aspects of quality of life, health, and well-being recreation lands support. Through work by Driver and Bruns (2008), it was established that recreational experiences can provide outcomes to visitors that inform their decision-making about how and when to recreate (Rice et al., 2020). An
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/827/image/coversmallA Three-Pronged Approach for Identifying Quality of Life and Well-Being Indicators in Parks2022-09-17text/htmlen-USA Three-Pronged Approach for Identifying Quality of Life and Well-Being Indicators in Parks2022-09-172022TWOProject MUSE®447712026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002022-09-17Workplace Foam Roller Exercise for Hotel Housekeepers: An Exploratory Study
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The tourism industry is one of the largest economic sectors in the world, employing more than 319 million people (World Travel and Tourism Council, 2019). Among these workers, hotel housekeepers comprise a significant occupational segment. Although housekeepers have been described as "silenced and invisible" (Onsøyen et al., 2009), they play an important role in contributing to the core product of a hotel: a clean guestroom. Without their hard work, the service quality, guest satisfaction levels, and profitability of these establishments would suffer, and this would negatively impact the tourism industry as a whole (Powell & Watson, 2006).Hotel housekeepers have a physically demanding job that entails repetitive
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/827/image/coversmallWorkplace Foam Roller Exercise for Hotel Housekeepers: An Exploratory Study2022-09-17text/htmlen-USWorkplace Foam Roller Exercise for Hotel Housekeepers: An Exploratory Study2022-09-172022TWOProject MUSE®728822026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002022-09-17Letter From the Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/864650
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Dear Authors, Readers, and Contributors,When we started the Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health journal, the driving concept was to have a peer-reviewed academic outlet for those working to bridge research efforts between the disciples of parks, recreation, and tourism with the world of public health. Thanks to a growing movement over the last several years, including an awakening due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there is now a more amenable atmosphere in the journal world to accept this kind of work, which is great news for disciplines in the realm of leisure and recreation.As a result, we have decided to end operations for the Recreation, Parks, and Tourism in Public Health journal and hope you will find
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/827/image/coversmallLetter From the Editor2022-09-17text/htmlen-USLetter From the Editor2022-09-172022TWOProject MUSE®26252026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002022-09-17Centering Public Health and Community Consent in Tourism Post-COVID-19
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/864651
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No other event, natural or human caused, has disrupted the travel and tourism sector as much as COVID-19. Perhaps no other topic has spurred as much tourism-related research and publication in such a short time. Recognizing the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity for self-reflection, this new literature is advancing calls to reimagine, reevaluate, and restructure travel and tourism to be more sustainable, balanced, and equitable (Benjamin et al., 2020; Chang et al., 2020; McKenzie & Goodnow, 2020). Benjamin et al. (2020) suggest that tourism perpetuates a "normalized series of 'systemic inequalities' including destructive and violent means of capitalist accumulations, strict market-driven ideology, over-dependence
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/827/image/coversmallCentering Public Health and Community Consent in Tourism Post-COVID-192022-09-17text/htmlen-USCentering Public Health and Community Consent in Tourism Post-COVID-192022-09-172022TWOProject MUSE®1261482026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002022-09-17Park Enjoyment and Secondhand Exposure to Substance Use and Litter: A Crowd-Sourced Vignette Study
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In 2016, the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) released their "Position Statement on Tobacco Consumption in Parks." The NRPA's position is that the use of tobacco products should be prohibited inside all parks, due to the health risks of secondhand tobacco smoke (e.g., risk of disease and death, children observing others smoke) and the potential environmental degradation from littered cigarette filters (e.g., smoldering filters that can cause fires, leached toxins from littered filters that can harm plants and streams) (NRPA, 2020). Of two nationally representative studies on this topic, one found that 38% (Kruger et al., 2016) of adults were in favor of policies that prohibit tobacco use in public
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/827/image/coversmallPark Enjoyment and Secondhand Exposure to Substance Use and Litter: A Crowd-Sourced Vignette Study2022-09-17text/htmlen-USPark Enjoyment and Secondhand Exposure to Substance Use and Litter: A Crowd-Sourced Vignette Study2022-09-172022TWOProject MUSE®991822026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002022-09-17