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Definitions

Delve into the location and use of recreation facilities and the complex factors influencing leisure choices and definitions over time. Explore the mental and emotional states associated with recreational pursuits.

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Definitions

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  1. Definitions • The Geography of Recreation deals with the location and use of recreation facilities • We need to understand the reasons behind selection of activity (Elements of study – Population, Activities, Facilities) • The end results are a product of multiple factors, all interacting and all changeable

  2. Recreation and Leisureare Loosey-Goosey terms

  3. Problems The straightjacket of definitions Change over time

  4. Spatial Process - Change Over Time

  5. NEED FOR DEFINITION The advantage of focus The need for consistency

  6. LEISURE • Disagreements about the meaning of leisure • can you be at leisure if you are disadvantaged? • Webster’s definition - “freedom provided by the cessation of activities, especially time free from work or duties” • Use then as free time, or spare time, or optional time - discretionary time

  7. STATE OF MIND • PIEPER • Leisure is a mental and spiritual attitude, not the inevitable result of spare time, a holiday, a weekend or a vacation. It is, in the first place an attitude of the mind, a condition of the soul.

  8. GOODALL- on recreation - • “ANY PURSUIT OR ACTIVITY, UNDERTAKEN VOLUNTARILY, PRIMARILY FOR PLEASURE AND SATISFACTION, DURING LEISURE TIME”

  9. From the Statement - a set of ideas related to opportunity, choice and a state of mind

  10. Available Opportunities • Opportunity refers to having ‘things to do’ - therefore relating to activities • Planners and managers with the system are responsible for provision of these opportunities

  11. ‘Activities’ + recreation and tourism planners • If recreation is ‘activities’ - may lead to:

  12. ‘Activities’ + recreation and tourism planners • But useful to Recreation Planners • definition of goals / objectives / targets • planning budgets and investments • providing / locating sites

  13. STATE OF MIND • AVEDON • Recreation: A personal sensation of well-being experienced in the process of anticipating, recalling, or engaging in any activity

  14. STATE OF MIND • GRAY AND GREBEN • Recreation is an emotional condition within an individual human being that flows from a feeling of well being and self satisfaction. It reinforces a positive self-image.

  15. STATE OF MIND • DICTIONARY OF SOCIOLOGY - 1944 • Recreation has its own immediate appeal and is not impelled by a delayed reward beyond itself

  16. Stages of the Recreation Experience

  17. Prediction • the relationships are interlinked so all factors are changing - each might have a different direction • How do you predict change or process?

  18. Facilities People - investment Technologies Recreation tends to be fad oriented - therefore quick changes Inertia vs Change

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