Tourism and Physical Activity Preferences: Development and Sustainability Strategy
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- (a)
- Families with children,
- (b)
- School curricula and extracurricular activities,
- (c)
- Out-of-school, institutionalized communities based on sport, ecology, religion, and socially oriented clubs.
- Can long-term monitoring of young people’s preferred and practiced physical activities be stimulating for the adaptation of tourist services to schools and for a prognostic strategy for their development?
- Which physical activities are the most stable in terms of time, age, and gender, and are suitable for use in tourism?
- How can efforts to promote adequate physical activity in particular tourist activities that are not sports-oriented be supported?
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Instrument and Procedure
2.3. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Long-Term Trends in Outdoor PA Preferences
3.2. Long-Term Trends in Typically Individual PA Preferences
3.3. Most Frequently Practiced Physical Activities during the Year
3.4. Preferred Typical Summer (Cycling) and Winter (Downhill Activities) Activities and Those Activities Practiced by Age
3.5. A Predictive Model of a Physical Activity-Oriented Tourism Strategy
4. Discussion
5. Strength and Limitations
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Characteristics | n | Age (Years) | Weight (kg) | Height (cm) | BMI (kg·m−2) | ||||
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M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||
Boys, CZ | 7972 | 18.43 | 3.34 | 71.04 | 13.61 | 177.61 | 9.95 | 22.36 | 3.16 |
Boys, PL | 2546 | 18.42 | 3.38 | 70.52 | 12.63 | 177.96 | 7.64 | 22.18 | 3.20 |
Girls, CZ | 6688 | 18,40 | 3.12 | 59.11 | 9.52 | 167.09 | 6.93 | 21.12 | 2.85 |
Girls, PL | 2826 | 18.10 | 3.02 | 57.62 | 8.76 | 167.09 | 6.10 | 21.12 | 2.76 |
Czech Girls | Polish Girls | ||||||
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Summer | Winter | Summer | Winter | ||||
Physical Activity | % | Physical Activity | % | Physical Activity | % | Physical Activity | % |
Running | 16.9 | Downhill skiing and snowboarding | 32.2 | Swimming | 16.2 | Downhill skiing and snowboarding | 17.0 |
Cycling | 16.1 | Swimming | 9.4 | Running | 16.0 | Swimming | 13.2 |
Swimming | 15.8 | Running | 8.1 | Ball games | 15.4 | Skating | 9.2 |
Ball games | 11.0 | Dance | 7.6 | Cycling | 10.9 | Ball games | 8.6 |
Dance | 7.2 | Muscle strengthening | 7.0 | Batting games | 8.1 | Muscle strengthening | 7.6 |
Batting games | 5.6 | Ball games | 5.3 | Dance | 7.9 | Dance | 7.0 |
Hiking | 4.6 | Skating | 4.4 | Skating | 4.2 | Running | 6.9 |
Skating | 4.2 | Batting games | 6.8 |
Czech Boys | Polish Boys | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Summer | Winter | Summer | Winter | ||||
Physical Activity | % | Physical Activity | % | Physical Activity | % | Physical Activity | % |
Ball games | 25.8 | Downhill skiing and snowboarding | 25.1 | Ball games | 30.1 | Ball games | 22.1 |
Running | 16.1 | Ball games | 18.0 | Running | 11.4 | Downhill skiing and snowboarding | 18.1 |
Cycling | 15.4 | Muscle strengthening | 13.4 | Cycling | 9.2 | Muscle strengthening | 9.3 |
Muscle strengthening | 10.4 | Running | 10.8 | Swimming | 8.5 | Batting games | 8.9 |
Swimming | 7.4 | Swimming | 6.3 | Batting games | 7.0 | Running | 7.8 |
Batting games | 6.8 | Batting games | 4.6 | Muscle strengthening | 6.8 | Swimming | 7.6 |
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Fromel, K.; Kudlacek, M.; Groffik, D. Tourism and Physical Activity Preferences: Development and Sustainability Strategy. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8824. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218824
Fromel K, Kudlacek M, Groffik D. Tourism and Physical Activity Preferences: Development and Sustainability Strategy. Sustainability. 2020; 12(21):8824. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218824
Chicago/Turabian StyleFromel, Karel, Michal Kudlacek, and Dorota Groffik. 2020. "Tourism and Physical Activity Preferences: Development and Sustainability Strategy" Sustainability 12, no. 21: 8824. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218824