Archive for month: August, 2022

The COVID-19 outbreak, declared as a global health emergency, consequently led to lockdowns and community quarantines that have restricted people’s opportunity for physical activity. Evidence have shown that physical inactivity increases the risk of many communicable  diseases such as coronary heart disease and metabolic disorders (Booth et al., 2012). Moreover, a sedentary lifestyle induces worse, continuous, and progressive consequences to health. The World    Health Organization recommends 150 minutes of moderate-intensity or 75 minutes of vigorous- intensity physical activity per week, or a combination of both. Walking is one of the most   popular physical activities. The reasons why it appeals to the population is because it is accessible to all, requires little skill and has low risk of injury. Walking can be performed in various speeds, in groups or alone, and without the need for special equipment. This research explores the experiences of young adults on their walking exercise with the consideration of the current COVID-19 pandemic situation. It aims to determine and understand the challenges and perceived benefits of young adults in performing regular walking exercise. This research was an in-depth case study conducted in Tanza Cavite, Philippines, where a few residents practice regular walking exercises, among others. This study mainly focused on the experiences and perspectives of the participants towards walking exercise. Criterion sampling was used, and semi-structured interviews were employed for data collection. Individual experiences of the respondents were explained and analyzed to further understand the effects of regular walking exercise.

This research is motivated by the mindset of the people in Blitar City which must be changed so that they are no longer job seekers, but participate in becoming job providers both for themselves, their families and the wider community in the city of Blitar.  One way to make a leap is the need for entrepreneurial innovation which is a solution to business independence.  This research approach is qualitative because of its effectiveness in the research context through exploration of the data collection methods used in this study based on semi-structured interviews and the conclusions include: Innovation and entrepreneurship complement each other because innovation is the source of entrepreneurship.  Entrepreneurship uses innovation to expand business scope and drive growth.  Entrepreneurial development through innovation and creativity can lead to successful commercialization.

This research is motivated by the phenomenon of private elementary schools that have academic and non-academic achievements beating public elementary schools. This achievement is the positive impact of student management carried out starting from student planning, student organization, participant management and student supervision. Management is carried out using the national curriculum and local curriculum in student development activities. The researcher used a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach in a multi-site study design. Data collection techniques used were in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentation. Data analysis used single site data analysis and cross site analysis. The checking of the validity of the data is done by triangulation between sources, triangulation between methods, triangulation between times, member checks and analysis of negative cases. The conclusion of this study is that student planning in improving the quality of education can be done by setting criteria for prospective students, identifying and analyzing information on prospective students, determining alternative student plans, supervising the implementation of student planning, making agreements with parents of related students parenting style at home.

This study aims to explore health and wellness tourism: types and development potentials in Bali, and is expected to become an alternative attraction for tourism in Bali and Indonesia. This research uses the desk research method with data and information search techniques online, secondary sources, and other sources of scientific publications. While the analysis technique used is descriptive qualitative analysis techniques, analogy, and comparison of several research results and other scientific publications related to health and wellness problems. Particularly in Bali, the tourism market health and wellness can be divided into four segments: (1) medical tourism, (2) wellness and spa, (3) nursing and elderly care, and (4) research services, and diagnostics. In many countries, services health and wellness are an ideal service to promote the role of tourism services exports as a share of GDP. In Bali, the number of spas has grown to more than 160% since 2003. It is identified that around 390 spas are currently operating and the remaining 21 are currently being built. The existence of health and wellness tourism is an opportunity and strength to increase the competitiveness of Bali as an international tourism destination.