Dense, urban and walkable: The lived experience of apartment dwellers in post- suburban Sydney

Urban density is commonly identified as factor that contributes to active transport, including walking, across all age groups. While a significant body of literature explores the factors that influence the likelihood of walking for commuting, leisure and or strolling, the experiences of residents in rapidly densifying outer suburbs have been much less well considered. Recovering these experiences is important as factors influencing walking – such as greenspace, leafiness and quieter streetscapes- are unevenly available and often shaped by wealth effects. However, investment-driven densification continues regardless across Australia’s eastern cities with little understanding of whether (and how) residents negotiate and practice active mobilities in these rapidly densifying spaces. Drawing on a sub-set of interviews and neighbourhood tours with apartment dwellers who live in the Central Business District (CBD) of Liverpool, Sydney, Australia, this paper highlights a set of established and emergent walking practices in Sydney’s Western Cities. While revealing established and emerging practices of ‘walkability’ within the CBD, these journeys are also shaped by car-dependency, violence/aggression and services gaps that intersect to restrict ‘walkability’. The paper concludes by advocating incremental diversification of transport infrastructure along with gender-transport audits to support the emergent practical and social accomplishment of walking in the post-suburban city. It also highlights the importance of engaging with the lived and embodied experiences of those negotiating suburban transformation to ensure urban design and planning policies leverage residents’ knowledge base as a resource

Developing effective slogans for the African tourism industry: Analysis of cohort perceptions and reactions

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Tourism destination attributes: what the non-visitors say - higher education students' perceptions

The paper presents a study on tourists’ consumption values and perceived beneficial image of the tourist destination, Mauritius. Specifically, the two innovations of the study are, first, that the target market is university student travellers and, second, the respondents have no previous travel experience to the tourist destination. Independent sample t-tests and one-way analysis of variance tests indicated a number of statistically significant differences of value components (from established scales) across demographics. In general, Mauritius emerged to command a very favourable perception as a tourist destination for student travellers. Several managerial and theoretical implications are discussed, with suggestions for future directions

Assessment of university campus café service: The students' perceptions

This paper presents the results of a study conducted to examine the important attributes in food service provision on a large Australian university campus. Ten café outlets (A to J to maintain anonymity of the café outlets) positioned across a large university campus located in an urban residential area were surveyed. A total of 410 students participated in the survey. Based on the frequency of patronage to the cafés results showed that five of the ten café outlets were more frequently visited in a given week. These were Café A, Café B, Café H, Café F, and Café I; however, the focus of this paper would be on Café A, which was just recently opened for business. Results indicated that students considered quality, price and service as the most important attributes in patronizing a particular café on campus. Results also indicated that students were most satisfied with important attributes such as convenience, ambience and quality during their visit to the café. Paired samples' t-test results showed statistically significant differences between the perceived importance and level of satisfaction with all attributes except the opening hours attribute. Results are discussed with possible implications and suggestions for further research