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Leisure and recreation

Task 2

Investigate the scale and significance of the leisure and recreation industry. (E2)

All leisure industries have an impact on the national economy as they all hire staff who claim there wages and in turn spend it. Also the companies circulate money around the industry. The scale and significance of the leisure and recreation industry has a huge importance for these three reasons-

  • It gives support for the case of the importance of the Leisure and recreation industry and the impact it has on the economy.

  • Allows us to approximate the needs for the supply of jobs and labour and the training/demands required to push-up the standards in the industry.

  • It shows where there are shortages or over supply of provision. This lets the private sector find new prospects and opportunities in the market or expands pre-existing markets. This also allows the public sector to plan the scale and provision of scale and facilities.
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There are various problems with the measuring of scale and significance of the leisure and recreation industry. These problems can be put into two categories the first one is classification and is outlined below-

  • If you look at the sales of books you are unable to say whether someone has purchased a book for leisure purposes or for the purposes of work, school or other commitments etc.

  • The whole cost and inconvenience of recording and counting e.g. surveys and forms etc.

  • There is a problem when it comes to trying to calculate data in work. ...

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