RPTM quiz 2
How does recreation get to the consumer - correct answer ✔sponsoring
sector or organization, setting, population segment, service modality
sponsoring sectors - correct answer ✔public agencies, non-profit agencies,
private for profit agencies, private non profit
public agencies (government) - correct answer ✔governing authority is body
elected by citizens within that jurisdiction. Focus on community services to
their jurisdictional constituency
Non-profit agencies - correct answer ✔Human service non-profit agencies.
YMCA, boy scouts, girl scouts
Private non-profit agencies - correct answer ✔country clubs, fraternal
organizations, hunting and fishing clubs
Private for-profit agencies - correct answer ✔(commercial) businesses,
commercial enterprise, tourism, focus on profit, Offering a product or a service
for a price
setting - correct answer ✔Natural environment, institutional, building
centered, general community
Population sector - correct answer ✔Providers deliver programs and
activities to different population groups: age related, type of group
, Service modality - correct answer ✔Focus is on the activity being offered,
commonality of service modality of all sponsoring agencies is the activity, all
activites when properly conducted, can be provided by any sector, in any
setting to any population
Organized Recreation System - correct answer ✔Government's role federal,
state, municipal
Characteristics of government agencies - correct answer ✔Traditionally
represented the core of the recreation movement, primary means of support is
tax funding, operates federal, state, municipal, obligated the serve the public
at large
Boston Sand lots, Boston Sand Garden, Boston's north end - correct answer
✔First organizing of open space for recreation in the open in cities
Federal functions - correct answer ✔direct management of outdoor
recreation resources, conservation and resource reclaimation, advisory and
financial assistance, promotion of recreation as economic asset, research and
technical assistance, assistance for open space and park development
programs, regulation and standards, direct management of recreation
programs
National Park Service - correct answer ✔One of the leading agencies in
outdoor recreation, responsible for maintaining and preserving unique national
parks and developing more close to home areas, single use concept
US Forest Service - correct answer ✔Administers extensive preserves of
wilderness for public recreation, multi-use concept - recreation, mining,
grazing, lumbering, and hunting are all permitted
