What do you do during those occasional holidays? What do you do during the holidays, when you are taking a break from work because you feel like your head is going to pop. How would you plan on utilising that time to benefit you while keeping a check on the stress on your head? I'm sure you all have a clear example of what I am talking about right here, yes; it's based on how you can spend your leisure time. It's a time where you just feel you have worked too much and decide that you need a break. Let it be studying, doing domestic chores or even earning your bread, every kind of work......READ MORE

What do you do during those occasional holidays? What do you do during the holidays, when you are taking a break from work because you feel like your head is going to pop. How would you plan on utilising that time to benefit you while keeping a check on the stress on your head? I'm sure you all have a clear example of what I am talking about right here, yes; it's based on how you can spend your leisure time. It's a time where you just feel you have worked too much and decide that you need a break. Let it be studying, doing domestic chores or even earning your bread, every kind of work......READ MORE

What is one of the key attractions of leisure hotels other than the in-room amenities, aesthetic interiors, spacious rooms, and world class services? It is a swimming pool! The view of the pool itself is a feast for the eyes, especially one that is marvelously designed. Body guards, attractive deck around including comfortable floating lounge chairs with facility for having drinks, beverages, juices, snacks further add to the advantage. Most leisure hotels encompassing Delhi hotels, Mumbai hotels, and of other cities offer the aforesaid facility. Have you ever swum in a temperature controlled......READ MORE

Young, Contemporary-Caribbean artist from Barbados, Sheena Rose, has made waves in the contemporary art world. Sheena is well known for her hand drawn animations and mixed media drawings, but what inspired this form of art? "Well, I remember the first animations I created were about dreams. They were very surreal and very different. I would add images, transfers and mixed media into the animations and my target audience found it very interesting," says Sheena. While growing up, the young artist treated her bedroom like an art gallery filled with paintings and drawings. Sheena would sell her......READ MORE

People go to leisure centres and gyms to: Feel better (both physically and mentally); Control their weight; Protect their overall health (both in the short and long-term); Improve their flexibility; Increase their stamina; and to Meet new people and make new friends. They do not go to catch a cold! But, in fact, many people do. Why? Because the air conditioning system at the leisure centre and gym they use is poor and/or does not help reduce humidity without reducing temperatures to unbearable levels. In short, the room rapidly overcools, and users head for the showers.Before we talk about......READ MORE

Looking towards an extended stay in one of the finest leisure hotels? Are you traveling alone or with your family? If you are with your family, you should prefer staying in resident leisure hotels. Well, the services and facilities not to mention hospitality are the same in both regular and apartment leisure hotels. The key difference is the perfect milieu of a home away from home. It is at home only that you can think of stretching without inhibition, enjoy the pleasure of walking without shoes, speaking with the other members in your own way without hesitation, snoring without care and the......READ MORE

With the improving Spring weather we are now starting to think about our gardens and getting them ready for some garden leisure time. The harsh winter weather leaves a trail of devastation on what was once the perfect setting for some comfortable outdoor living, but with a few hours of tender loving care the garden can be transformed just by tidying the flower beds and removing any leaves and plants from last year. Mow the lawn and sprinkle some lawn feed, tidy the edges and you then have the perfect blank canvas for planting this years plants and shrubs.Get the patio area cleaned and ready......READ MORE

Leisure and tourism studies are characterized by a diversity of approaches which come from different disciplines and use a variety of methods. As a result, studies often use an inter-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on different frames of reference and different methodological approaches for conducting studies. To this end, researchers involved in doing research projects should take into consideration the research questions they want to answer based on the purpose of the research, such as whether to do a research study to build on the academic store of knowledge or to do a......READ MORE

The weather is getting warmer and the sun is starting to shine. There are buds on the trees and plants and flowers are starting to poke their heads above the ground. It looks as though Spring is just around the corner and now it is time to start planning some garden leisure time. We spend so much time working it is nice to be able to have some free time with our family relaxing in the garden.After winter the garden requires nurturing back to health following the harsh weather. The garden needs tidying and the patio and patio furniture needs checking for wear and tear. Can you clean it down,......READ MORE

As a child I always wanted a pool in the back garden. The most I got was a washing bowl of cold water to "paddle" in. Pools in back gardens were unheard of when I was a child, it was only the rich and famous who had pools and spas. Now many years later, with adult children of my own and grandchildren, I now have that much desired pool in my back garden, my dream from my childhood days came true. My children and grandchildren enjoy the experience of having some garden leisure time in a pool they can use when they visit, and, in the summer months it is quite frequently used by them.It is a......READ MORE