AHSC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Rock Climbing, Ecotourism, Birdwatching

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Appl. Hum. Sc.
• Course: AHSC 241
• Professor: Robert Hopp

Document Summary

Are these three community leisure service providers in competition or cooperation with one another: what do you think, why, you have most likely swam in a public pool or visited a public park, the vast majority of your leisure dollar is spent on for profit agencies that provide leisure services, these are lumped together in a category called commercial leisure. Profit motivation: notice that the definition does not say profit generation. , many businesses go in and out of business, unable to make a profit [think of montreal restaurants], they would still be considered commercial leisure service providers. Some estimates have the recreational portion of the family budget at over 8%, on average: taxes and fees, taxes typically paid in connection with leisure contribute to the economic health of a society sales, income, property, gasoline, and hotel taxes, license fees for hunting and fishing, liquor licenses, etc. all contribute to the economy, expenditures trends in spending.