EDRD 3500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 43: Industrial Revolution

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Environmental Design and Rural Development
• Course: EDRD 3500
• Professor: Marianne Staempfli

Document Summary

Leisure, recreation, and tourism are also about creating a better future. Not only can leisure be considered an end in itself, a means of purely hedonistic gratification, but also a means to a larger and more substantial end. As we have seen throughout this course, people can gain a better understanding of themselves and their environment through participation in recreational activity at home or through travel. Recreation and tourism can provide vital ingredients to individual and personal growth and development. If we are to engage in planning, we must be concerned with the future and not only with the present. Perhaps the most pressing issue will involve addressing our daily need to construct a personally satisfying lifestyle while reducing stress on the environment. At present, we look to work to gain self-identity. However, we have a high unemployment rate and no matter how well the economy does, we cannot seem to bring unemployment down to acceptable levels.