TY - BOOK AU - Page,Stephen AU - Connell,Joanne TI - Leisure: an introduction SN - 0273726498 AV - GV14 .P34 2010 U1 - 790.0135 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Harlow, England, New York PB - Pearson Education Limited KW - Leisure N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1: Introduction to Leisure -- Chapter 2: The Historical Analysis of Leisure -- Chapter 3: Leisure - The Social Context -- Chapter 4 : Demand for Leisure, Leisure Participation and Leisure Behaviour -- Chapter 5: Supply for Leisure: Leisure Places, Spaces and Environments -- Chapter 6: The Public, Private and Voluntary Sectors in Leisure Provision -- Chapter 7: Planning, Managing and Marketing Leisure -- Chapter 8: Urban Leisure -- Chapter 9: Leisure and the experience economy: The cultural industries and entertainment -- Chapter 10: Coastal Leisure -- Chapter 11: Rural Leisure -- Chapter 12: The Future of Leisure N2 - "Leisure: An Introduction provides a broad and lively understanding of the meaning, significance and scope of leisure in modern day society. The book achieves this by exploring key concepts and theories, along with examples and case studies, to illustrate the complexity of leisure. The authors offer a global and interdisciplinary perspective on the main issues associated with the study of leisure and highlight the evolution and development of many of the key debates in the field of leisure studies."--pub. desc ER -