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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"International travel"”.
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A Descriptive Study of Teacher Perceptions of International Travel Outcomes
<p>People have been traveling internationally for hundreds of years seeking enlightenment. There is a plethora of research to discuss how travel has impacted them. However, travel research is lacking where the educational impacts on the educational experiences of teachers are concerned. The purpose …
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Teacher Voices in secondary international travel programs originating in the United States: Perceived systemic barriers to faculty participation
… the United States lead high school students on international excursions, with the goal of exposing students to new cultures, learn world languages, and promote global citizenship. Despite emerging research on the educational value these trips offer, teachers face significant challenges in …
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Looking to the past to travel in the future : post pandemic tourism
… the global impact of pandemics on tourism international travel, especially nowadays, are severely restricted during pandemics. Tourism-dependent countries are concerned about these disturbances as it leads to a fall in international travel that exacerbated economic problems, especially in …
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When East Meets West: Understanding Travel Experience in Transnational Space
… an unprecedented compression of time and space. International travel, as one major force of contemporary mobility, not only generates large-scale human movements across national boundaries, but also facilitates the construction of dynamic and meaningful experiences. Taking international tourism …
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Exoskeletons
… part is dedicated to impressions from various international travel experiences, a fixation on my need for these to have some kind of meaning, my desire to understand why I travel, and my general dissatisfaction with that approach. The third part is more of an examination of where those other …
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Lucrative Blue
… Empire of Song, contains poems that react to international travel to Italy and France. The third, entitled Fathomless, deals primarily with the inner self and emotional responses to the present.
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Automated Syndromic Surveillance using Intelligent Mobile Agents
… However, with the increased prevalence of international travel, public health monitoring must extend beyond the borders of municipalities or states which will require the ability to store vasts amount of data and significant computing power for analyzing the data. Intelligent mobile agents …
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The Role of Personality and Cultural Intelligence in the Desire to Study Abroad
… implicated in the success of and interest in international travel, in 188 undergraduate students. Participants completed measures of personality, Cultural Intelligence, previous multicultural experiences, and desire and intent to study abroad as an undergraduate student. Previous multicultural …
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A Typology of Homegrown Terrorists
… cluster suggest possible policy implications for international travel, cyber regulation, and community outreach programs to address the unique threats posed by subgroups of offenders. Efforts to prevent future terrorist plots and attacks may be more effective if the type of offender is …
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Bilateral exchange rates and the performance of the tourism industry : evidence for Canada
… and three of its most important partners in international travel, we examine the sensitivity of the cash outflows and inflows to bilateral exchange rates changes. The exchange rate exposure is modeled using both a regression framework as well as a causality test. The results suggest that at …
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The most effective methodologies to cultivate a global mindset
… indicate that expatriate managers perceive International Assignments to be the most effective methodology to cultivate a global mindset. International Travel and Working in International Teams were also highly rated by the survey respondents as methodologies to cultivate a global mindset. …
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The Applied Epidemiology of Influenza and other Infectious Diseases in Victoria
… absence during the period when stringent international travel restrictions were in place to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2; a response to an influenza outbreak in a residential aged care facility; a simulated poliovirus outbreak response to a laboratory containment leak that was …
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Geographic Literacy and World Knowledge Among Undergraduate College Students
… to have influence on the scores were gender, international travel, major, fulfillment of Virginia Tech's Area 7 requirement, frequency of news media access, and type of news accessed. Age, academic class, GPA, residency status, junior/high school geography classes, international friends, and …
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Reading, Travel, and the Pedagogy of Growing Up in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany
… of young adult reading with the foreign world of international travel that informed German experience at the end of the nineteenth century. By uniting these two ostensibly disparate realms under one interpretive frame, I offer a new perspective on the theory and practice of young-adult reading at …
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The impact of infrastructure-related taxes and fees on airline fares in the US and the European Union
… add-on taxes and fees on the direct cost of air travel in the United States and the European Union. Its scope includes domestic travel in the United States and both domestic and intra-EU international travel within the European Union. For the United States, we work with over 4 million passenger …
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The Relationships of Perceived Risk to Personal Factors, Knowledge of Destination, and Travel Purchase Decisions in International Leisure Travel
… tragic events and natural disasters. However, international tourism is expected to grow continually and tourists are therefore becoming more concerned with safety and security during their international travel. This dissertation investigated individuals' risk perception of vacationing at two …
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#instaworthy presentations of place: a place study of experience among teenagers on Instagram
… is curious to understand if students' from an international travel program, Rustic Pathways, presentations of place online are different or similar than descriptions of place experience offline and if these representations differ, why? The humanistic geography concept of 'place' and place …
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Islands in the (main)stream : the desert island in anglophone post-war popular culture
… was transformed by the advent of affordable international travel and communication; the thesis considers desert island texts since 1942, from the period since our planet has been opened up to tourism and global capitalism. This post-war timeframe maps onto the development of a self that is …
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An evaluation of the impact of COVID-19 on the performance of hotels and lodges in Windhoek, Namibia
… well as restrictions on domestic, regional and international travel led to cancellation of bookings and low occupancy rates. COVID-19 negatively impacted on Average Daily Rate (ADR), Revenue Per Available Room (RevPAR) and profitability of hotels and lodges. The study concluded that the COVID-19 …
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Meeting the Self and the Other: Intercultural Learning During a Faculty-led Short-term Service-Learning Course to Belize
… inequitable social relations. Faculty-led international travel courses provide an opportunity for program leaders to develop intercultural development curricula that are ethical, engaging, economically and environmentally sustainable, and pedagogically sound. This study examined how …
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