Recreation

Abstract

Recreation is a pleasurable, socially sanctioned activity that restores the individual, concomitant with the experience of leisure. Long-standing debate exists about the nature, meaning, and scope of recreation and its relationship to tourism (Annals of Tourism Research 1987). While debate continues, there are continued calls for merging the fields of enquiry, from their different ideological beginnings of leisure and recreation as welfare, and tourism as business (Moore et al. 1995).