Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006.

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master's degree in Recreation and Tourism, in the Department of Recreation and Tourism at the University of Zululand, South Africa, 2010. / This study is about community perceptions, perspectives, management and benefits relating to sustaining Ts'ehlanyane National Park as a natural resource facility in Leribe; Lesotho. The study seeks to examine the extent to which the community benefits from the natural resource. In this regard, Mowforth et aJ (2008) suggest that people whose present quality of life is not of an acceptable standard, the resources that they have if sustained, could be available for them and their children to potentially achieve a better quality of life in the future. Achieving sustainability is now the underlying principle for all types of human activities, including tourism. Following this research approach, it is realistic to map out the objectives listed below, so as estimate what the study seeks to achieve in the final analysis. The objectives are as follows: a) To establish the extent to which Ts'ehlanyane National Park stakeholders understand the meaning of sustainable tourism, b) To identify the participation of the local community in managing the Ts'ehlanyane National Park. c) To reveal the management practices and strategies used in sustaining the Ts'ehlanyane National Park as a tourism resource. d) To examine the community's viewpoints pertaining to the sustainability of the development on Ts'ehlanyane National Park. e) To investigate tourism-related community benefits acquired through sustainable development of Ts'ehlanyane National Park. f) To propose a strategic management model that can be used as a scheme towards improving the sustainable management of Ts'ehlanyane National Park. These objectives were formulated in order to find out about the communities' perceptions, perspectives and participation on sustaining Ts'ehlanyane National Park as a resource facility. Data was collected through the use of questionnaires, which had open ended, closed ended and Likert type of questions. Data was therefore collected and analysed through the use of a computer programme called Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). This research inquiry fundamentally came up with the following findings: (a) The local stakeholders (tourists, service providers, park officials and the community) at the Ts'ehlanyane National Park (TNP) have a good understanding of the meaning of sustainable tourism, (b) The participation of the community in managing the TNP was found to be adequate and worthwhile, (c) The management practices and strategies used in sustaining the TNP as a tourism resource were found to be sufficient and well attuned to establish sustainability. (d) The tourism-related community benefits acquired through sustainable development of the TNP were sufficiently developed. Finally, the study was able to propose a general strategic management model, which could be used as a scheme towards improving the sustainability of the TNP. The scheme was based on the literary sources used, the empirical findings and the interpretation of the data used in the study.

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Wong Chi Wing Dick. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 1997-98, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / BACKGROUND --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- SYNOPSIS / Chapter 1.2 --- DESIGN MISSION / Chapter 1.3 --- CLIENT PROFILE / Chapter 1.4 --- USERS PROFILE / Chapter 1.5 --- SITE SELECTION / Chapter 1.6 --- OUTLINE OF PLANNING FACILITIES / Chapter 1.7 --- SITE CONSTRAINT / Chapter 1.8 --- SCHEDULE OF ACCOMMODATION / PLANNING / ZONNING STRATEGY --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- SITE ANALYSIS / Chapter 2.2 --- DESIGN CONCEPTS / DESIGN PROCESS --- p.24 / Chapter 3.1 --- FIRST REVIEW / Chapter 3.2 --- SECOND REVIEW / Chapter 3.3 --- THIRD REVIEW / Chapter 3.4 --- FINAL DESIGN / ENVIRONMENTAL --- p.32 / Chapter 4.1 --- PASSIVE SOLAR ENERGY / Chapter 4.2 --- H.V.A.C. / Chapter 4.3 --- PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE / Chapter 4.4 --- COMMUNICATION SYSTEM / LIFE SAFETY --- p.38 / Chapter 5.1 --- COMPARTMENTATION / Chapter 5.2 --- FIRE FIGHTING / Chapter 5.3 --- MEANS OF ESCAPE / STRUCTURE --- p.41 / Chapter 6.1 --- STRUCTURAL GRID / Chapter 6.2 --- OVAL SHAPE STRUCTURE / Chapter 6.3 --- COMPUTER STRUCTURE SIMULATION / Chapter -- --- SPECIAL STUDIES / Chapter 6.4 --- FIXING DETAILS DESIGN / EXTERNAL ENVELOP --- p.50 / Chapter 7.1 --- SCREEN WALL / Chapter 7.2 --- EGG SHELL ENVELOP / CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE --- p.53 / Chapter 8.1 --- CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE OF CYBER GAMES HALL / COST --- p.41 / Chapter 7.1 --- PROJECT FINANCE / Chapter 7.2 --- TIME SCHEDULE / Chapter 7.3 --- BUILDING COST ESTIMATION / Chapter 7.4 --- PROFESSIONAL FEE

Lau Sun Ming Kenneth. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2005-2006, design report." / Includes bibliographical references. / Research Work / Chapter 1.0 --- Introduction / Chapter - --- City making and making of Park / Chapter 2.0 --- Abstract / Chapter - --- Urban Parks in Hong Kong / Chapter 3.0 --- Context of Kowloon Park / Chapter - --- Nathan Road as spine of city / Chapter - --- Kowloon Park as microcosm / Chapter - --- Comparison of Hong Kong (Kowloon Park) and Manhattan (Central Park) / Chapter 4.0 --- Urban Parks Ideology / Chapter - --- Park and City / Chapter - --- Precedent Studies: Central Park / Chapter - --- Precedent Studies : Pare de la Villette / Chapter 5.0 --- Critiques on present Kowloon Park / Chapter 6.0 --- Scale tectonic / Chapter - --- Scale and the thesis statement / Chapter - --- Scale and City / Chapter - --- Issues of the site that potentially deal with scale / Chapter - --- Theoretical Proposition / Chapter 7.0 --- Vision / Chapter 8.0 --- Design proposal (experiment) / Bibliography / Design Work / Chapter 1.0 --- Thesis Statement / Chapter 2.0 --- Site Strategies / Chapter 3.0 --- Part 1 : Master Planning of New Kowloon Park / Chapter 4.0 --- Part 2 : Internal Organization of existing Kowloon Park area / Chapter 5.0 --- Part 3 : Individual architectural moments that explore relationship between building and nature / Chapter 6.0 --- Conclusion

O mercado globalizado e de competição intensiva no qual países e empresas estão inseridos, demanda destes uma busca constante por inovação. Entre os habitats de estímulo à inovação com diversas iniciativas pelo mundo, e também no Brasil, estão os chamados Parques Tecnológicos. Um dos grandes desafios para a implantação e operacionalização destes empreendimentos é a obtenção de recursos. Surge, então, a questão: Quais as perspectivas de financiamento que a organização gestora de um Parque Tecnológico dispõe para realizar as fases de planejamento, implantação e operacionalização dos elementos constitutivos e serviços oferecidos por este tipo de empreendimento? O objetivo deste trabalho é levantar as perspectivas de financiamento utilizadas nas etapas citadas nos Parques Tecnológicos: Tecnopuc, Pólo de Informática de São Leopoldo e Sapiens Parque, instalados no Brasil; Biocant Park e Taguspark, instalados em Portugal; e Parque Tecnológico de Cartuja 93, instalado na Espanha. Para tanto, foi realizada uma revisão bibliográfica a qual abordou inovação e sua implicação nos novos arranjos empresariais, parques tecnológicos e financiamento de parques tecnológicos, a fim de construir a base conceitual para a análise dos casos; ao final, apresenta-se uma análise comparativa das perspectivas de financiamento utilizadas por estes parques nas diversas fases de implantação. / The intense competition globalized market in which firms and countries are inserted, demand from them a constant search for innovation. Among the habitats to stimulate innovation that have several initiatives around the world, including Brazil, there are the called Technology Parks. One of the biggest challenges faced in the process of planning, implementation and operation of these complex enterprises is to raise the necessary funds. Then, a question emergens: what are the financing perspectives that the Technology Park management institutions have for the planning, implementation and operation of this kind of enterprises? As an attempt to answer this question, the aim of this research was to identify the financing perspectives used in these stages of the development of the following enterprises: Tecnopuc, Pólo de Informática de São Leopoldo and Sapiens Park, in Brazil; Biocant Park and Taguspark, in Portugal; and Cartuja 93 Technology Park, in Spain. For this purpose, a bibliographic research was realized in innovation and its implications for the new enterprise net configuration, technology parks and financing of technology parks, what built the theory base to support the analysis of the cases. In the end, it?s presented a comparative analysis of the financing perspectives used by these enterprises in the several stages of development.

This thesis is a study that aims to understand the pre, during and post visit behaviours of theme park visitors. This study took place at Janfusun Fancyworld, which is situated at Gukeng village Yun-Lin County, Taiwan. The park was the first Taiwanese theme park to achieve ISO 9002 and has hosted over 2 million visitors every year almost since its inception over a decade ago. By these criteria Janfusun is considered the leading theme park in Taiwan. Theme parks originally emerged from medieval and travelling fairs, but the success of locations such as Coney Island in the late nineteenth century introduced the element of exciting rides. At present the definition of a 'theme park' might be said to be an 'amusement park' that possesses a central theme based on history, fiction or other core. However, it is the researcher's own observation that Janfusun focuses more on the installation of hardware facilities, but pays less attention in creating an unifying theme. This situation may have affected the research outcome since Janfusun operates more as an 'amusement park' from a western perspective but markets itself as a 'theme park' within Taiwan, and is consistent with a Taiwanese understanding of the term of being a 'theme park'. The main hypothesis adopted in this study is that satisfaction may be of two types: (1) generic, which relates to general 'push' needs such as those for relaxation, and (2) site specific, which relate to destination attraction features and 'pull' determinants. This thesis argues that the satisfaction of generic motives such as the requirement for relaxation and escape is contingent upon the ability of the attraction to meet the visit motives specific to the attraction. For example, a need for escape would not be met if a theme park visitor found the rides uninspiring, the portrayal of fantasy unconvincing and the food poor. Furthermore, researchers such as Foster (1999) suggest that some destination attributes, while considered important by the tourists, rarely act as an incentive to choose a specific destination, but the absence of these attributes can be a powerful deterrent. Some of the attributes, such as 'accessible toilets' and 'a place to rest', are considered as convenience factors in this thesis. This thesis attempts to understand the relationship of push, pull and convenience factors to the visitors' overall satisfaction. Also, this thesis tries to understand the role of socio-demographic variables in determining overall satisfaction. This thesis also includes a longitudinal study that allows the research to capture the effect of changes to visitors. For example, Janfusun has newly installed an artificial beach and wave feature that serves the social needs of its visitors. This thesis also examines the importance of repeat visitation in determining visitors' motivations and experiences. For example, it was found that visitors with high repeat visits are more aware of the 'new rides' than the first time visitors. Finally the last chapter attempts to answer two key questions, (a) why are the findings of importance to both conceptual literature and management practice, and (b) what might future researchers learn from this thesis. The objectives of this thesis are thus summarised as to: 1. Conduct a longitudinal study in Janfusun. 2. Identify visitors' pre-visit behaviour, which is associated with generic motives and push factors. 3. Identify visitors' during-visit behaviour, which is associated with site-specific features and pull factors. 4. Identify post-visit behaviour, which is associated with satisfaction and loyalty. 5. Identify the causal relationships between pre, during and post visit behaviours and conceptualise a model. 6. Identify the role of convenience factors.