Multiculturism: Issues of Malaysian female sport tourists’ in event-based sport tourism

In a multiracial society, female's leisure practices are different than the general public because their choices are controlled by the structure of society within different cultures.This study is concerned with the barriers and negotiations experienced by Malaysian females in event-based sports tourism, based on Crawford, Jackson, and Godbey's (1991) hierarchical model of leisure constraints. The barriers experienced were related to structural and cultural components.The negotiations assumed were interpersonal coordination, skill acquisition, financial resources, and time management strategies. The insights gained could benefit the related operators in preparing strategies to tap the mega-billion ringgit sports tourism market

Designing sport and recreation programming: Towards enhancing customers' participation in tourism industry

Programme planning and management are essential elements in assuring the success of leisure services for people of all ages and backgrounds. One of the hallmarks of good programming in sport and recreation is the extent to which how well an organization manages its resources and organizes activities to meet the wants and needs of different people and different groups. In this paper, I will examine the fundamental thrust of sport and recreation related to management planning by focusing on a related programming models. Thus, an approach to sport and recreational programming model adapted from the available literature will be emphasized. Apart from understanding the programming model, there is a need to better understand the application of marketing strategies for sport and recreation programmes that provided by the tourism industry which can be regarded as triggers and anchors of the engagement process. I will also outline of the issues and challenges in programming sport arid recreational activities. Finally, the suggestions towards enhancing customers‘ participation in sport and recreational activities in tourism industry will be discussed

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The study explored the relationships between athletes’ perception of coaching behaviours and satisfaction towards coaches’ leadership. The path-goal theory (House, 1971) and a multidimensional model of leadership (Chelladurai, 1990) were used as the theoretical base. A stratified random sample of 234 males and 183 females adolescent school athletes were selected to answer a questionnaire which consists of personal data, Leadership Scale for Sports (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980), and satisfaction scale towards leadership. The results indicate that training and instruction behaviour, and rewarding behaviour are often exhibited by coaches, and the autocratic behaviour is seldom portrayed. The results of Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation also show that the score of each dimension of the coaches' training and instruction, democratic, social support and rewarding behaviours has positive significant relation to athletes' satisfaction towards the leadership of coaches. Nevertheless, the “stepwise” multiple regression analysis reveal that training and instruction, democratic and social support behaviour of coaches show positive and significant contribution in relationship of athletes' satisfaction towards coaches' leadership. Furthermore, autocratic behaviour is also found to contribute significantly and negatively in relation to athletes' satisfaction towards coaches' leadership. Therefore, the study suggests that to increase atheletes’s satisfaction towards leadership, coaches should exhibit more training and instruction, social support and democractic behaviours, besides reducing the characteristics of autocratic behaviour

University students' attitude, self-efficacy and motivation regarding leisure time physical participation

The purpose of this study is to identify the influences of attitude, self-efficacy,and motivation on leisure time physical activity participation in students at local public universities. The theories of planned behaviour and self-efficacy were used as a theoretical framework. The study sample is comprised of 551 males and 801 females who were selected by means of random cluster sampling.Questionnaires were utilised to collect data. The results of the study showed that there were positive correlations between leisure attitude, motivation, and self-efficacy and leisure time physical activity participation among undergraduate students. The results also revealed that motivation and self-efficacy were the best predictors of leisure time physical activity participation. This study suggests that, in the effort to encourage the student’s leisure time physical activity participation and involvement, university management should plan and organise programmes to develop positive attitudes among students, increasing their self-efficacy and motivation level for physical activity participation

Persekitaran kerja dan 'burnout' di kalangan guru pendidikan jasmani dan sukan

The study examined burnout level among physical educators and sports' teachers (PJS) and its relation to work environment in schools.The adapted questionnaires from Fejgin et al (1995) and Pines and Aronson (1981) were administered to 82 respondens.The results of the study showed that the PJS teachers had low level of burbout.T-test analysis indicated that there was a significance difference of burnout level between the PJS teachers in primary and secondary schools.The result of the study also revealed that there was a significance relationships between each dimensions of work environment and burnout among the PJS teachers.Thus, stepwise multiple regression analysis proved that bureacratic and social dimensions was the significant contributors on burnout among PJS teachers.This study suggests on improvement of the work environment and the PJS teachers should play a wider role in the management and administration of the schools

Multiculturism: Issues of Malaysian Female Sport Tourists’ In Event-based Sport Tourism

AbstractIn a multiracial society, female's leisure practices are different than the general public because their choices are controlled by the structure of society within different cultures. This study is concerned with the barriers and negotiations experienced by Malaysian females in event-based sports tourism, based on Crawford, Jackson, and Godbey's (1991) hierarchical model of leisure constraints. The barriers experienced were related to structural and cultural components. The negotiations assumed were interpersonal coordination, skill acquisition, financial resources, and time management strategies. The insights gained could benefit the related operators in preparing strategies to tap the mega-billion ringgit sports tourism market

Sport tourism: Physically-disabled sport tourists’ orientation

It is a challenge for sport tourism providers to organize the exceptional demand of physically-disabled individuals.Analyzing the orientation of physically-disabled in sport tourism participation provides the basis for further theoretical recognition of constraints and negotiations in sport tourism in general, besides facilitating related providers and policy makers in understanding of strategies development to promote sporting events among individuals with disability. The objective of the current paper is answered based on survey research conducted in a representative sample of 312 physically-disabled Malaysian. According to the results, physically-disabled Malaysian struggle with a mix of structural constraints, interpersonal constraints, intrapersonal constraints, and cultural constraints. Majority of them are structurally constrained in sporting event participation. Although transportation is the main constraint factor, participations are possible through adoption of interpersonal coordination strategies, skill acquisition strategies, time management strategies, and financial resources strategie

Acceptance of online sports marketing among Faculty of Sport Science and Recreation Student in UiTM (Perlis) / Radzliyana Radzuwan, Khor Poy Hua and Lim Khong Chiu

The online marketing has gained prominence among sport event tourists due to its sophisticated features. Even though researchers have examined various factors that influence general consumer use of the Internet, but there are limited research conducted on acceptance of online sports marketing. Thus, a survey was conducted to identify the components of benefits perceived (accessibility, flexibility, interactivity and reliability) and components of challenges experienced (technical challenges and organizational and behavioral challanges) in acceptance of online sports marketing. Using the Sport Website Acceptance Model (SWAM) and Psychological Continuum Model (PCM) as its theoretical framework, this study analyzed the data by applying Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and independent sample ttest to test research hypotheses. A number of 126 respondents among the FSR students of UiTM (Perlis) were involved in this present research. Self-administered questionnaire was distributed equally to 63 male and 63 female students. Research was conducted through implementation of systematic simple random sampling. Findings highlight the advancement on four major points, namely the benefits perceived and also the challenges experienced in acceptance of online marketing, besides the facts that online sports marketing can increase individual‟s behavioral intention toward the sports event tourism, and website communication can create favorable attitudes toward sport event

The sports event’s quality towards attendance of tourists at sports event hosted at Northern Zone of Malaysia / Khor Poy Hua, Lim Khong Chiu and Radzliyana Radzuwan

Sports tourism is an essential part of world tourism and is trendy in Malaysia. Malaysia recorded about 25.83million tourist arrivals in 2018. Efficient delivery of hospitality services to the sports tourists will contribute to the multi-billion-dollar sports tourism business.In a competitive sports tourism market, offering sporting event requires being deeply acknowledged with the reasons that attracts tourists’ choice of specific sporting event and the degree of satisfaction that these sports tourists perceived from the service provided. As so,thispresent study discusses on the sports event’s quality towards attendance of tourists at sports event hosted at northern zone of Malaysia. The objectives of this study are answered based on survey research conducted among 351 sports tourists at the sports event organized at northern zone of Malaysia. The study reveals that the intangible aspect of sports event’s quality highly affects tourists’ attendance at sports event hosted in Northern Zone of Malaysia, compared to the tangible aspect. Growing economy plays an important role in ensuring the quality of sports event. Findings reveal dissimilarities on perception of quality towards sports event between the gender groups, with the male tourists displaying higher sensitivity. Further study on sports events hosted in other region of Malaysia could contribute to development of quality sports events in promoting Malaysia as an international sports tourism destination