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Volume 26, 2004 - Issue 4
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Missing the Boat? A Playfully Serious Look at a Group Cruise Tour Experience

CAREEN MACKAY YARNAL Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
Pages 349-372 | Received 01 Apr 2003, Accepted 01 Nov 2003, Published online: 12 Aug 2010

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Laura Wood & Karen Danylchuk. (2012) Constraints and Negotiation Processes in a Women's Recreational Sport Group. Journal of Leisure Research 44:4, pages 463-485.
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Ondrej Mitas, Careen Yarnal, Reginald Adams & Nilam Ram. (2012) Taking a “Peak” at Leisure Travelers’ Positive Emotions. Leisure Sciences 34:2, pages 115-135.
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Careen Mackay Yarnal, Garry Chick & DeborahL. Kerstetter. (2008) “I Did Not Have Time to Play Growing Up… So This is My Play Time. It's the Best Thing I Have Ever Done for Myself”: What is Play to Older Women?. Leisure Sciences 30:3, pages 235-252.
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Careen Mackay Yarnal. (2006) The Red Hat Society®: Exploring the Role of Play, Liminality, and Communitas in Older Women's Lives. Journal of Women & Aging 18:3, pages 51-73.
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Lincoln James Whyte. (2017) Understanding the relationship between push and pull motivational factors in cruise tourism: A canonical correlation analysis. International Journal of Tourism Research 19:5, pages 557-568.
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Jamie M. Chen, Bart Neuts, Peter Nijkamp & Jingjing Liu. (2016) Demand Determinants of Cruise Tourists in Competitive Markets: Motivation, Preference and Intention. Tourism Economics 22:2, pages 227-253.
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Paul Brejla & David Gilbert. (2014) An Exploratory Use of Web Content Analysis to Understand Cruise Tourism Services. International Journal of Tourism Research 16:2, pages 157-168.
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Toni Liechty, Nuno F. Ribeiro & Careen M. Yarnal. (2009) "I Traveled Alone, but Never Felt Alone": An Exploration of the Benefits of an Older Women's Group Tour Experience. Tourism Review International 13:1, pages 17-29.
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Robert J. Kwortnik. (2008) Shipscape influence on the leisure cruise experience. International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 2:4, pages 289-311.
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