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Book SynopsisThe World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) held its fourth World Congress in Cardiff, Wales, in July 1996. The overall theme was "Leisure and the Quality of Life In the 21st Century". At the congress, the Management Commission, the newest of WLRA's Commissions, attracted 78 papers in the management and access theme, from 16 countries. This book presents edited and revised versions of 18 of the most significant papers from the management section of the congress. The papers are diverse in topic, focus and geography, but demonstrate the vigour and developing nature of management studies in leisure, both of an applied and theoretical nature. Two themes in particular are developed: issues, such as access to leisure services, pressures of visitor numbers on rural areas, and contracting out of services to the private sector; and applications of different theories and approaches to managing leisure resources and customers. Case study material is presented from locations as diverse as
Table of Contents1: Who needs leisure managers? G Torkildsen, Leisure Management Consultant, Harlow, UK 2: The accessibility of Australian Aboriginal people to sport and recreation, H MacGowan, Western Australian Government 3: Leisure and recreation and the 'Sport for All' policy in developing countries: a critical examination, C Cousineau, University of Ottawa, Canada 4: Leisure lifestyles in a developing country: reasons for non-participation, A Bramante, Sorocaba University, Brazil 5: Access to museums as leisure providers; still a long way to go, Frans Schouten, National Institute for Tourism and Transport Studies, Breda, Netherlands 6: Access for all? Paradigm shift in Government support for the provision of countryside recreation in England and Wales, N Ravenscroft, University of Reading, UK 7: Recreation pressures on the countryside: real concerns or crises of the imagination? R Sidaway, Research and Policy Consultant, Edinburgh, UK 8: Sport, culture and urban regimes: the case of Bilbao, I Henry and J Paramio Salcines, Loughborough University, UK 9: Urban leisure: edge city and the new leisure periphery, Graeme Evans, North London University, UK 10: A model of alternative forms of public leisure services delivery, T Glover and T Burton, University of Alberta, Canada 11: The value and structure of commercial leisure, D Irvine and P Taylor, Sheffield University, UK 12: The casino in the post-industrial city: the social and economic impact of the Sydney casino, T Veal and R Lynch, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia 13: Sports and safety: leisure and liability, S Frosdick, Staffordshire University, UK 14: Quality management in public leisure services, L Robinson, Sheffield University, UK 15: Application of the SERVQUAL model to the UK leisure industry, C Williams, Lancashire Business School, UK 16: Up the wall: the impact of the development of climbing walls on British rock climbing, D Morgan, Bolton Business School 17: Evidencing the sports-tourism inter-relationship: a case study of elite British athletes, G Jackson and M Reeves, Loughborough University, UK 18: The search for a sports-tourism policy network, M Weed and C Bull, Christ Church College, Canterbury, UK
