ABSTRACT
The impact of the global tourist lockdown due to the pandemic dimensions of covid-19 in 2020 and the beginning of 2021 has shaken the industry to its core. The industry of mass tourism has certainly suffered a great knockout, a kind of acute respiratory constriction, a functional collapse that on an organic level would appear as coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, tiredness, a life-threatening difficulty in breathing. In this paper, we used the concept of hyperventilation as understood by medicine to seek an organic understanding of the crisis that has hit tourist services. The study used a qualitative research technique, namely the single case study of a healthy man at the age of 51, who was going through a health-enhancing breathing protocol. The conclusions were derived based on inductive reasoning. The pattern and results of expected organic changes due to the breathing protocol were transferred by analogy to the institutionalized level of tourism. Since we focused on changes and patterns to be reflected organically, the detailed symptoms or initial disbalance of the individual in the case study were irrelevant for our conclusions. Physiologically, hyperventilation in humans results in tissue hypoxia, meaning that less oxygen is delivered to cells. Similar logic can be transferred to hyperinflated mass tourism booming in recent years, negatively impacting the indigenous social and natural environment. The results of the expert-based and scientifically justified 5-week breathing interventions are presented via a case study. The improvement of major factors and qualitative interpretation from the subject itself has provided us with sufficient outcomes that can be used (1) in designing preventive and postcovidh ealth regenerative retreats as tourist products and (2) as amodel to support the tourism industry with an understanding of sustainable niche-market solutions. © 2022 University of Primorska. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
The impact of the global tourist lockdown due to the pandemic dimensions of covid-19 in 2020 and the beginning of 2021 has shaken the industry to its core. The industry of mass tourism has certainly suffered a great knockout, a kind of acute respiratory constriction, a functional collapse that on an organic level would appear as coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, tiredness, a life-threatening difficulty in breathing. In this paper, we used the concept of hyperventilation as understood by medicine to seek an organic understanding of the crisis that has hit tourist services. The study used a qualitative research technique, namely the single case study of a healthy man at the age of 51, who was going through a health-enhancing breathing protocol. The conclusions were derived based on inductive reasoning. The pattern and results of expected organic changes due to the breathing protocol were transferred by analogy to the institutionalized level of tourism. Since we focused on changes and patterns to be reflected organically, the detailed symptoms or initial disbalance of the individual in the case study were irrelevant for our conclusions. Physiologically, hyperventilation in humans results in tissue hypoxia, meaning that less oxygen is delivered to cells. Similar logic can be transferred to hyperinflated mass tourism booming in recent years, negatively impacting the indigenous social and natural environment. The results of the expert-based and scientifically justified 5-week breathing interventions are presented via a case study. The improvement of major factors and qualitative interpretation from the subject itself has provided us with sufficient outcomes that can be used (1) in designing preventive and postcovidh ealth regenerative retreats as tourist products and (2) as amodel to support the tourism industry with an understanding of sustainable niche-market solutions.
ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 epidemic that emerged in March 2020 caused a situation in universities where the implementation of many forms of the study process had to be adapted to the restrictions and recommendations for work during lockdowns. The implementation of practical forms of the study process was a particular challenge. The purpose of this work is to show the possibilities of adapting practical swimming exercises and the basics of rescue from the water, which were included in the first year of the undergraduate study course of kinesiology (n = 45), a programme conducted at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Primorska. The results show that the students achieved statistically significant progress in the self-assessment of swimming skills, the time of swimming 100 m and in the length of underwater swimming, despite the interrupted implementation and subsequent adapted condensed implementation of practical exercises during the period. The results vary depending on the group, here as categorised by swimming ability and the duration of the practical exercises. When adapting the implementation of practical forms of study, special attention should be paid to how the purpose of these practical forms of study-that is, the real practical experience of participants in educational programmes-can be maintained;this is analysed by taking into account the possibilities of implementation and providing limitations and valid recommendations.