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Alive and kicking: the benefits of scuba diving leisure for older Australian women

Sally F. GregorySchool of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Lismore, AustraliaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Kay DimmockSchool of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Lismore, AustraliaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9098-014XView further author information
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Pages 550-574 | Received 25 Nov 2018, Accepted 08 Apr 2019, Published online: 23 Apr 2019

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Sally F. Gregory. (2023) Diving with dignity? Older women scuba divers, constraints and accessible tourism on the Great Barrier Reef. Annals of Leisure Research 26:5, pages 716-736.
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Wenting Zhou, Yajun Qiu & Haibo Tian. (2023) Promoting Active Aging Through Sports Participation: A Qualitative Exploration of Serious Leisure Among Older Chinese Adults. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity 31:1, pages 135-143.
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Rachel Douglas & Anne E. Barrett. (2022) Aging Bodies in Paradise: A Feminist Analysis of Key West’s Fantasy Fest. Social Currents 9:3, pages 265-285.
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Sandra P. Hirst & Carole-Lynne LeNavenec. (2021) The Intertwining of Occupational Devotion, Serious Leisure, and Lifelong Learning: Creating a Peer-Reviewed Student Journal. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure 5:1, pages 79-92.
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Bruna M. Saliba, L. Eggertsen, Thiago C. Mendes, Marina Marconi, Carlos E. L. Ferreira & Vinicius J. Giglio. (2022) Interactions of Divers with Reef Biota are More Frequent Among Snorkelers Than Scuba Divers and Increase During Sea Turtle Watching. Tourism in Marine Environments.
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Serena Lucrezi & Tawanda Makuyana. (2022) DISABILITY INCLUSION IN DIVING TOURISM: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE INDUSTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA. Tourism in Marine Environments.
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Lucen Liu & Richard Pringle. (2020) Mid-life Chinese women’s understandings of sporting pain and injury: A non-Western cultural analysis via the Confucian concept of ‘ren’. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 56:3, pages 361-381.
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Azalia Gerungan & Kei Wei Chia. (2020) Scuba diving operators’ perspective of scuba diving tourism business in Nusa Penida, Indonesia. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 31, pages 100328.
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Rachel Kraus. (2020) Abandoning Belly Dance: Leaving Female-Dominated Serious Leisure. International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure 3:2, pages 135-152.
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