TYPES OF
ORGANIZED
RECREATION

TYPES
OF
ORGAN
IZED
RECRE
ATION
 Government recreation agencies
 Voluntary non-profit organizations
 Private membership organizations
 Commercial recreation enterprises
 Employee recreation programs
 Armed forces recreation
 Campus recreation
 Therapeutic recreation services

1. Government
recreation
agencies
• These are the federal, state, provincial agencies,
and local departments that provide recreation
and leisure as services as a primary function.
• Also include are other agencies that offer
recreation programs as a secondary
responsibilitysuch as those concerned with
social service, education, special
populations and the armed forces.

2. Voluntarynon-profitorganization
• These are the governmental,
non-profitagencies, both
sectarian and non-sectarian
which serve the public at
large with multiservice
programs that often include
a substantial element of
recreational opportunity
.
• The most popular
voluntary organizations
include the Boy Scouts,
Girl Scouts,YMCA,
YWCA, and YM-YWHA.

• They provide recreational and
social activities for their own
members and in some cases assist
community recreation needs.
• (golf, tennis, yacht, athletic, and
country clubs.)
• Also included under this category
are the recreation sponsors
connected to residence such as
swimming pools, sports or fitness
complexes or clubs attached to
leisure villages, and apartments
or condominium retirements or
retirement communities.
3. Private
membership
organizations

• These are privatelyowned
businesses which operate to
make a profit such as ski
centers, bowling alleys,
night clubs, movie houses,
theaters, health spas or
fitness centers, dancing
schools and theme parks.
4.
Commercial
recreation
enterprises

5. Employeerecreationprograms
• They serve those who work for companies or
employees by providing recreation as a part of
a total personnel benefits package linked to
other services concerned with employee health
and fitness.

6. Armedforcesrecreation
• Although it is obviously a form of government-
sponsored activity, it is unique in its setting and
purpose. Each of the major branches of the
armed forces operates an extensive networkof
recreation facilities and programs.

• It includes intramural
athletics or sports clubs,
social activities, travel
programs, performing
arts groups,
entertainment, lounges,
film series and other
forms of recreation on
college, and university
campuses.
7.
Campus
recreation

• Theses include any other
program designed to meet
the needs of persons with
physical or mental
disabilities, individuals with
poor health, dependent
aging persons, social deviant
persons in correctional
facilities, and similar special
groups.
8.
Therapeuti
crecreation
services

• In addition to the eight types of organized recreation, sports,
and tourism represent major areas of recreational
programming and constitute powerful economic forces
through their attraction for people every age and
background.
• Uniquely, they have strong links to each to the growing field
of sports tourism and also overlap heavily with outdoor
recreation attractions.
TWO MAJOR
RECREATION
SERVICE
COMPONENTS

Sports are generally defined as physical activities
demanding exertion and skill, involving competition,
carried on with both formal rules and general
standards of etiquette and fair play.
SPORTSAS POPULAR
RECREATION
Sports are major areas of recreational involvement. Of all the types of
recreational involvement, sports command the highest degree of personal
interest and emotional involvement.

TOURISM – AMAJOR RECREATION
SERVICE COMPONENT
•Tourism is a second major area of diversified
recreational involvement. Several major elements in the
tourism enterprise which are closely linked to the
growth of tourism as a form of recreation are the
theme parks, water parks, fun centers, and sports
tourism.

• Theme parks usually
concentrateon one
dominant theme
•which may be historical,
cultural or geographical.
Like:
•Marine Zoological
Park
Disneyland

• A specialized type
of theme park are
the water parks,
they feature wave
pools, slides,
chutes, shows and
other forms of
water based play
and
entertainment.

• The purpose of sports
tourism is to participate directly in
a form of sport or attend sports
evens as a spectator. In the past,
only the team traveled the
spectators remained behind to read
about their favorite game or to
experience the game through radio
and television.
• The World Olympics is
the biggest sports event. It
attracts millions of spectators
and generate millions of
dollars in revenue.
SPOR
TS
TOURI
SM

The Need
for
Professional
Leaderships
• At present, there is a growing need for
qualified
•professional leadership in the recreation field.
• Veryoften, people assume that the task of
organizing and conducting recreation
programs is relativelysimple and that anyone
can do it without specialized training.
• However, the professional’s assignment in
the organized recreation field tends to be
more complex and difficult than that of
the volunteer leader or coach.
• It must involve carefullystudied goals and
objectives and sophisticated planning
techniques.

• Recreation Professionals should
possess the skills needed for direct
leadership and supervision, group dynamics
and client assessment. They must have the
ability to carry out basic research and write
meaningful reports.

Emerging
Professional
Identity
• As employment in recreation agencies
grew over the past several decades,
recreation gained public as a flourishing
career field.
• Millions of men and women
became employed in various
specialized sectors of recreation and
leisure service.
• Manyhold professional-level jobs
as recreation leaders, supervisors,
planners, managers and resource
specialist. Through the efforts of national,
state and provincial societies, higher
standards for practice were developed and
the first steps of certification and
accreditation were undertaken.

Challenges
Facing the
Recreation
and Leisure
Service
Field in the
Twenty-
First
Century
• Recreational professional must be able
to deal creativelywith the following
challenges.
1. Serve diverse society (race, age, gender);
2. Emphasize key social purposes of
recreation in working with at-risk
youth, serving persons with
disabilities, and promoting
community development;
3. Achieve fuller public understanding of
the value of recreation and parks, and of
the leisure-service profession

• Upgrade recreation and park programs and
facilities particularly in inner cities and for
minority populations;
• Adopt a benefits-based management approach,
researching, proving and publicizing positive
outcomes of recreation;
• Promote recreation’s identity as health-related
field;
• Develop partnerships with environmental
organizations to protect and restore wildlands,
waterways;
• Employ marketing approach to achieve fiscal
sufficiency
•and gain public respect and support;

• Expand and improve family-centered
programs and facilities;
• Promote higher values and ethical
practices in youth
•sports competition;
• Strive for fuller mainstreaming
of persons with disabilities in
community recreation programs;