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Recreation is considered as activity through which leisure may be experienced and enjoyed but it ... more Recreation is considered as activity through which leisure may be experienced and enjoyed but it is also seen as a social institution, socially organized for social purposes and it is assumed to bring personal and social benefits. It is also a means to an end and can be rationally justified tied historically to certain types of activities, such as outdoor pursuits, hobbies, continuing education and activities with a service orientation. The hospitality industry includes many businesses that fall under this large umbrella, such as hotels, motels, resorts, restaurants and theme parks. While hospitality services refer to the activity or business of providing ancillary services to guests in hotels, restaurants, bars, etc and is made up of two services; accommodation and food, beverage services sectors together constitute the hospitality industry. There is a direct link between leisure recreation in hospitality service delivery system; as a multi-use tool to be used by hospitality to achieve a wide range of goals such as additional revenue-generation and a marketing strategy to bring in customers. The main objectives of this paper therefore was to demonstrate how leveraging leisure, recreation activities as additional services in hospitality will increase visitation, extension of length of stay, boost revenue and enhance the destination's reputation. The paper concludes, that leisure recreation contributes to the overall growth of the hospitality industry services and for leisure recreation to be a revenue-generating activities, the recreation program must be totally responsive to the interests of the customers. The paper recommends that Hospitality services must focus on the guest experience and stage memorable experiences that stimulate his returned.

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Jigawa journal of multidiciplinary studies, 2023

This study investigated the impact of community sport on the development of social capital of loc... more This study investigated the impact of community sport on the development of social capital of local communities in North West State-Nigeria. One research questions and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study and the respondents of the study were local residence of the selected states of North West States. Descriptive research design of survey type was used for this study and the population for this study were 5,025,312 five million and twenty five thousand three hundred and twelve. A sample size of four hundred and fifty (420) respondents were selected for this study representing 25% of the population under study through stratified sampling. A researcher's developed questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection, validated by lecturers of the department of Human Kinetics and Health Education and a reliability index of 0.76 was obtained from a pilot study. Four hundred and twenty questionnaires were distributed and 419 were duly completed and returned for analysis. Descriptive statistics was used to organize and describe the bio-data of the respondents while T-test statistics was used to test the sub-hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Findings from the study indicates that community sport play a significant impact on the development of local communities of North West State, Nigeria; the mean of the respondents were 3.29, SD 0.378 and the statistical computation indicates z=42 97, df 418 (p<0.05). It was therefore recommended that community sport is important in strengthening social capital and can create a common, strong collective spirit to socialize and institutionalize individuals' and in addition, authorities can improve the social capital of the community by planning and creating suitable conditions for these people and by taking into account their demographic status.

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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science, 2016

Every occupation desire recognition as a profession for a variety of reasons, sport management in... more Every occupation desire recognition as a profession for a variety of reasons, sport management inclusive for example Law, medicine and Engineering are professions that traditionally carry with them prestige, respect and autonomy. Ethical code of conduct are meant to address a variety of ethical issues of the profession such as level of knowledge and skills; licensing; maintenance of discipline within the profession, establishment and registration of persons entitle to practice. It is with this in mind that the paper explored professional society, ethical issues, ethical code of conduct as moral and social obligation. The paper provides the foundation for a rational application of the principles of ethics to the ethical problems that confront the sport management profession in Nigeria. Many would suggest that the present ethical environment in sport management profession is in an abysmal state as the field does not have a recognize body (Association/Society) the like of NASSM SMAANZ,...

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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science, 2016

Purpose: This paper examined ethic and institutionalization of code of professional practice in t... more Purpose: This paper examined ethic and institutionalization of code of professional practice in the Kano State School sports system. These codes of ethics include commitment to athletes, player, public, profession, employment practice and services that embodied personal integrity, dignity and mutual respect. Methods: Three [3] research questions were formulated, answered and tested at 0.05 level of Significance. The Sample comprised of 35 School Sports professionals’ management practitioners selected from secondary schools of Kano, from the total population of 105 through stratified Sampling technique. The instrument used in the research was the Self-Assessment Questionnaire [SAQ] developed by the researcher, data collected were analysed using rank ordered correlation. Results: The findings revealed the need for school sport management professionals’ to understand the different functions of codes and distinguished between the three types of codes namely, code of ethics, conduct, pra...

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European Journal of Education Studies, 2016

Tourism involve temporary movement from place of residence to a destination for the purpose of re... more Tourism involve temporary movement from place of residence to a destination for the purpose of rest and relaxation, recreation, sightseeing, education (viewing of nature for knowledge and conservation), visiting friends and relatives, business, medical treatments, pilgrimages and attendance at religious festivals, exhibitions and conventions attending sporting events and holidaying from work. On the other hand tourism information is the information that enables a potential tourist to access the destination of interest, insight of information about attraction and destination Survey research method was adopted for the study; the population of this study consists of 600 academic staff from three faculties. A stratified sampling technique was used to select one hundred and eighty (180) 30% respondent that formed the strata with 18 respondents from each stratum. A close-ended questionnaire was design and validated by three lecturers in the department of geography of Ahmadu Bello Univers...

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Despite the growth of leisure travel and stress coping research based analysis of leisure and tou... more Despite the growth of leisure travel and stress coping research based analysis of leisure and tourism, stress coping have been performed rarely. The purpose of the present study is to examine how University staffs cope with stress through participation in leisure and tourism activities, and how work related stress affect their organizational commitment using data collected from a focus group interview approach and a self-developed questionnaire consisting of 25 items design to elicit information about the range of methods university staff used seeking information about leisure, tourism and how to cope with stress and the contribution leisure and tourism intervention to this process, it will further inquire about social, work environment, the frequency and type of leisure tourism activity, health conditions and organizational commitment and work stress coping mechanism. For this purpose the study 45 randomly selected academic staff from all the departments in the faculty of educatio...

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Sports organization regardless of size and type requires competent and motivated coaches to funct... more Sports organization regardless of size and type requires competent and motivated coaches to function effectively and achieve the desired goals and objectives of the sports organization. This study investigates motivational factors as determinants of coaches job performance of Nigerian universities of zone A. The design used in this study was correlation design with the sample of 53 coaches using purposive sampling methods. The instrument used for this study was a self developed questionnaire using five points likert scale, validated with a reliability coefficient of 0.08. The questionnaires were distributed by the researcher and all were duly returned. Data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics of simple frequency count and Pearson product moment coefficient of correlation (PPMC) was used to test the formulated hypothesis of there is no significant relationship between motivational factors and job performance of Coaches in the Nigeria Universities of zone A at 0.05 lev...

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This study attempts to investigate the possible influence of participation in Sports on personali... more This study attempts to investigate the possible influence of participation in Sports on personality changes. It was generally hypothesized that there would be no significant difference between the selected athletes personality traits and the sport they participate, to achieve the purpose, 200 male and female Katsina State athletes from different athletic groups were selected randomly to serve us subjects. An instrument called Edward's personal preference schedule (1939) Epps was modified and adopted, to obtain date required for the study. The instrument was then administered on the subjects whose responses were statistically analysed to test the hypothesis of the study. The result indicated that female showed significant differences between athletes in different Sports in some of their personality traits and that there are insignificant differences between male and female athletes in their personality trains. The following conclusion were drawn based on the result of this study....

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International journal of physical education, sports and health, 2015

Commonwealth Games a sporting competition bringing together members of the British Empire is a co... more Commonwealth Games a sporting competition bringing together members of the British Empire is a concept that had been talked about amongst commonwealth nations since the rebirth of the Olympics games. The historical antecedent of the commonwealth Games right from its inception in 1930 was first proposed by Reverand Astley Cooper in 1891. As the focus of the paper is to x-ray and discuss whether the objectives of the founding fathers of the games was met; the following objectives of the Games were emphasized. To serve as a linking force between developed and developing commonwealth countries; To help in bridging the gap between the developed and developing commonwealth countries in Sport Development; Exchange of sport research ideas, coaches, equipment and provision of facilities to member countries. Instances of politics within the commonwealth games association, uneven spread of sporting expertise (Hosting right to developing member countries) and racial inclinations has been the ma...

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Integrity in sports have over the past decade been a topical issue in sport literature and integr... more Integrity in sports have over the past decade been a topical issue in sport literature and integrity scholars these is predominantly as a result of increased media and public attention to sports players, institutions, leagues, organizations and stakeholders in both on-field play and off-field player behavior contexts. In the past few years, these have included issues related to: match fixing, corruption and doping. It has been described by many, including high profile sporting figures, sport administrators and governing bodies, as a greater threat to the integrity of sport than doping. This threat is match-fixing. One of the most powerful guardians of sport, Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), explains why, “Doping affects one individual athlete, but the impact of match-fixing affects the whole competition. It is much bigger.” Illegal gambling is the principal driver of what Rogge has also called a “cancer”. Three (3) of the stakeholder groups ...

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Jigawa journal of multidiciplinary studies, 2023

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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science, 2016

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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science, 2016

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European Journal of Education Studies, 2016

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International journal of physical education, sports and health, 2015

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This paper used Henry (1964) paper presented at the annual meeting of the National College Physic... more This paper used Henry (1964) paper presented at the annual meeting of the National College Physical Education Association for Men (NCPEAM) as a baseline of discourse to presents a critical review on a number of issues concerning physical Education as an academic discipline The paper has two objectives first, to offer a panoramic view of Physical Education as a discipline based on scholarly analysis and historical debates second, the crisis of identity in the 1960s and from the late 1960s through early 1980s, humanities and social science sub-disciplines developed in physical education and the run to science culminating into the wider area of what is now termed kinesiology. The different reactions, measures and initiatives carried out in the past few years with the purpose of combating the perception of some scholars about physical education as an academic discipline as reflected in the change of name of most Physical Education departments to Kinesiology, Human Kinetics or Sport Sciences.

Keywords: P.E, Academic, & discipline

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Coaching is a collection of persons engaged in an employment that require some degree of knowledg... more Coaching is a collection of persons engaged in an employment that require some degree of knowledge and learning, with a unique services with which its members practices, serve and render to the society, the acceptance of responsibility for the actions they do, the realization of its members that their service to the society is not for mere economic rewards and an organization that controls and reflects the functions of its members This paper presents the generally accepted norm that coaching as a profession uses theory and application of scientific principles that is based on the work of professionals guided by a code of ethics. Conclusively coaching profession is an art of dealing with the most complex thing on earth, human being each with his/her own hope, dreams and goals in life.

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The Nigeria Association for Physical & Health Education, Recreation, Sports and Dance (NAPHER-SD)... more The Nigeria Association for Physical & Health Education, Recreation, Sports and Dance (NAPHER-SD) is a National Association in Nigeria, like its counterpart in the developed world,

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Abstract The Nigeria Association for Physical & Health Education, Recreation, Sports and Dance (... more Abstract

The Nigeria Association for Physical & Health Education, Recreation, Sports and Dance (NAPHER-SD) is a National Association in Nigeria, like its counterpart in the developed world, the likes of Society for Health and Physical Education (SHAPE) formerly American Association of Physical Health Education, Recreation & Dance (AAPHERD); North American Society for Sports Management (NASSM); European Society for Sports Management (EASM) and Sports Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) to mention but a few. This paper will examine, the functions, aims and objectives of (NAPHER-SD) and see the linkages and strategies this professional association would provide for adoption in meeting the following security challenges of corruption, militancy, kidnapping, terrorism and insurgency
Presently engulfing the country

Keywords: Security, Challenges & NAPHER-SD

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ABSTRACT Purpose: This paper explored Everett Rogers (1973) perceived attributes in the understan... more ABSTRACT
Purpose: This paper explored Everett Rogers (1973) perceived attributes in the understanding of use and non-use of IT in the Nigeria University sports system. Understanding the perceived attributes of innovation has become predominant focus of diffusion of innovation research. According to Rogers’ (2003) the individual adopter or potential adopter perception of the attributes of innovation not the attributes as classified objectively by experts and change agent affect its rate of adoption; Rogers’ distilled the perceived attributes of innovation to include relative advantage, compatibility, trialability and observability. To achieve this purpose the paper answered five research questions based on the construct of the theory; Relative advantage, compatibility, complexibility, trialability and observability. Methods: survey research method was adopted and the populations were coaches, support staff and directors of sports from the (North west and north east) geo-political zones. A total of 779 were sampled out who participated at the Nigeria sport festival in Akwa Ibom 2013. A self developed structured questionnaire using open ended format of Likert five point scales was adopted. Results: Chi Square (X2) was used to answer the research questions raised, the result indicates that there is relationship and understanding between relative advantage, compatibility, complexibility, trialability and observability r=0.63, p=000; r=0.38, p=000; r=041, p=000; r=42, p=000; r=0.57,p=000 respectively, this shows that (IT) has not been adopted and where it is adopted and used it was not properly utilized in the sports system as a result of lack of awareness, acceptance and attitude which led to failure in management of sports and poor athletics performance at international competitions. Conclusion: Getting a new idea adopted, even when it has obvious advantage is difficult; many innovations require a lengthy period of many years from the time when they become available to the time when they are widely adopted; a common problem of non-use is attributable to non understanding of the relative advantage, compatibility, complexibility, observability and trialability of (IT)
Keywords: Innovation, information technology, diffusion & non-use

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