Management and Planning in the Leisure Industries

'...an excellent publication...the first I have seen which puts management and planning in their proper context, i.e. relates to the principles' Conrad LaPointe, Farnborough College of Technology. This book provides frameworks through which responses to leisure management problems can be evaluated. It is aimed at students and practitioners of leisure management and has two goals. The first is to apply and evaluate management and planning principles in leisure management contexts. The second is to focus on the contribution of social theory to an understanding of leisure policy. It is written by six academics drawn from a range of disciplines.