Recreation

Abstract

Recreation is considered as a pleasurable, socially sanctioned activity that restores the individual, concomitant with the experience of leisure. Considerable debate exists about the nature and meaning of recreation and its relationship to tourism (Annals of Tourism Research 1987). While this debate is ongoing, there appear to be continued calls for merging of the fields of inquiry, from their originally different ideological beginnings of leisure and recreation as welfare and tourism as business (Moore et al. 1995).