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Leisure Direction summary exam
Literature:
• A textbook: Page, St. J., Connell, J., “Leisure: An Introduction”, Pearson Education Ltd., Essex,
England, 2010. Chapters 6, 7 (only pages 255-281) and 8 (only pages 299-325)
• And a Reader with 6 (academic) articles, focusing on items such as stakeholders, networks and
cooperation, applied to the four sub sectors of the Academy for Leisure distinguishes.
• Lecture slides
• Lecture 2: wrap-up
Lecture 1; introduction into leisure direction
Changes in the (leisure) world:
- Globalization within business world
- Networks and (digital) information streams
- Growing importance of leisure in western and non-western society in terms of turnover and
employment
- Increase of use of leisure for societal purposes
- Cross-sectorial cooperations between leisure sector and other sectors (f.e. health, education)
The relevance of leisure direction. In this world people are needed who:
- Have a helicopter view over the leisure sector
- Can bring different parties together
- Can lead a process of (strategic) cooperation
Factors of leisure direction:
- Many parties involved from different industries (cross sectoral cooperation)
- Complex process
- Strategic (long-term) aims on different levels
- (Relatively) unknown end result
Leisure direction:
Supply demand
Operational management Marketing Project management Imagineering
-Quality management -SWOT analysis -Tactic tools for -Experience provider’s
-Leadership styles Porter’s 5 forces cooperation model
-Change management -Methods to develop
Services/products
Course objectives of leisure direction:
• An insight in the different stakeholders in a leisure direction process, such as government,
the voluntary sector and leisure providers
• An insight in the planning and managing of leisure
• An insight in theoretical models such as a network analysis, stakeholders analysis, feasibility
analysis and support analysis
• An insight in how to direct a process to come to cooperation between stakeholders in the
leisure industry, applied to the different leisure sub sectors
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