Recreation and Leisure Studies

'Stats to Go' is a user-friendly guide for hospitality, leisure and tourism students who need to learn statistics and statistical techniques. 'Stats to go' is an ideal companion to hospitality, leisure and tourism studies as the breadth of coverage supports all taught numerical aspects of these types of course. Examples from hospitality, leisure and tourism organizations: * licensed premises * fast food outlets * hotels * theme parks and their environments are used to illustrate key issues of the text. The area of quantitative methods is one which many students find unapproachable or daunting. With the use of a clear learning structure, and a user friendly, non-theoretical approach, Buglear has created a text which students and lecturers alike will find indispensable.

For the past three decades, we have been steadily creating anextreme 'time-crunch economy' that has affected jobs, portfolios,businesses and lives. But the 'time-crunch economy' is turning into'the leisure economy' and it will mean wrenching adjustments forour lives and institutions. Everyone from consumers, investors,businesses, and policy-makers will need to understand the changesafoot. The Leisure Economy posits profound economic changes inNorth America due to both the retirement of the baby boomers andthe attitudes of ascendant generations X and Y. Looking at trendsin demographics, economics and generational change, this book looksat how to stay ahead of the leisure economy and predicts who willbe the winners and losers in the seismic shift ahead.

This book provides readers with an understanding of the major information search tools which are available. It is a starting point in the search for information which offers advice and indicates some of the major sources which are available.

When this book was first published the study of sport had been largely neglected by sociologists. The contributions to this volume bring the sports field, the leisure centre and everyday leisure activities to a more central position within the sociological enterprise. Whether amateur or professional, sport contributes to wider relations of power, privilege and domination and this debate represents an important phase in the sociology of sport and leisure.

This textbook describes the relevance of economics to the tourism and leisure industries, helping you to pass an economics module as part of a tourism, recreation or sport management degree.

It applies economic theory to a range of tourism industry issues at the consumer, business, national and international level by using topical examples to give the theory real-world context. The author explains the impact of the global economic crisis and the importance of understanding what has happened over the course of previous economic business cycles to prepare for what may happen in the future. Contrasting evidence is put forward to provide a sense of the dynamics of world economies.