Three Agencies Or Organizations That Impact The Field Of Recreation And Leisure Activities.

Three Agencies Or Organizations That Impact The Field Of Recreation And Leisure Activities. 

Identify three agencies or organizations that impact the field of Recreation and Leisure activities. The report must include the agency or organization primary functions, goals and activities

Recreational activities are meant to make the body and the mind to rest, away from all the daily work or school activities. In order to make a recreational activity easy to access there are several agents and organizations that bring the person and the activity closer (Hayward, p15). These agents and organizations include:

Sports organizations – most recreational activities usually involve a sport like tennis, golf, bungee jumping, rock climbing and such activities. Most of the sports organizations ensure that they have a trainer who will be able to properly instruct the people on how well to perform without physically straining their bodies.

The sports agents look for suitable places where people can engage in the sport. They will have the necessary equipments required like balls and ropes, gyms to work out and a place to relax after the sport.

Booking agents – these are the agents that play the role of organizing trips, tours and activities for people who are on holiday or people seeking some leisure time. Most of the booking agents will book everything the people require at a fee (Hayward, p27). Due to improvement in technology, booking can be done online these days. The booking agents book the cars, accommodation, hikes and trips; they even make reservations in restaurants. The online booking is convenient because it works within the price range of the person. The goal is to ensure that the people are as comfortable as possible.

Corporate firms and companies – the corporate world is slowly changing from being strictly involved in economic activities to also being part and parcel of the recreational and leisure activities for their employees (Tribe, p33). This is made possible when a firm teams up with a sports agent. It signs up all the employees to the sports activities offered by the agent. It funds most of the activities and even invests in their endeavours as a means to create positive PR and to make more profits.

The corporate firms increase the recreation activities offered as they will be tailored to fit to the needs of the employees. The multiplicity of the needs of the employees will increase the variety offered (Tribe, p45). There will also be increase in the participation as it will be a firm activity aimed at team building for the performance.

The recreational activities will ensure that one has something fun and friendly to do on their vacations and days off. The main reason for the firms to team up with the recreational centre is to give the people a place where they can relax and take time to come up with more and better ideas at the same time making profits.

Work Cited

Hayward, P. A, Leisure and Tourism: Heinemann GNVQ Intermediate, (2000), Prentice Hall, New Jersey

Tribe John, The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism, (2004), Springer Publishers, Washington D.C