Unit 1 - The Leisure Industry Today

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Overview

Scale
Leisure is now one of the largest industries within the UK and the rest of Europe. You need to know the scale of the industry and its components. You should do this by investigating key industry statistics, such as:
• consumer spending in the UK and Europe on leisure products
and services
• participation trends in the most popular leisure activities.

You will need to study the UK and three other European Countries from the following list:

• Portugal
• Spain
• Italy
• France
• Ireland
• Germany
• Switzerland
• Austria
• Denmark

How will I be assessed?

Level 1 - provide a simplistic or limited outline of the scale of the leisure industry. Europe is refered to in a general way

Level 2 - provide example of the scale of the leisure industry. You attempt to compare the UK with the rest of Europe.

Level 3 - give a detailed range of examples to show the scale of the leisure industry and make appropriate comparisons between the UK and other countries in Europe.

Level 4 - give a wide range of examples to show the scale of the leisure industry and consistently make comparisons between the UK and other countries in Europe.

Assignment Structure

1. Write an introduction to this section. You may want to do this last.
2. Investigate the scale of the leisure industry in terms of consumer spending on leisure in the UK and your three European countries.
3. Investigate the scale of the leisure industry in terms of participation rates in leisure in the UK and your three European countries.

Learning Resources

Have a look at this website: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/fe/tutorial/sport - it contains lots of tips on searching for leisure information. It also contains lots of links to websites relevant to this assignment

TOP TIP
Before you start searching the web make sure the websites you reference are reliable. If you are not sure what makes a reliable website look here .

Starting Points:
Can you find any suitable pages on the National Statistics website: National Statistics Online

Useful information here:
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/
Explore_job_sectors/Sport_and_leisure/overview/p!ebeeed


Consumer spending in the UK on leisure products and services

Websites found:
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/handbook/pdf/f16_4.pdf
Name:
Brief Review: General data and information here. For example contains information about how disposable income has risen. Can you link this to the growth in the leisure industry?

Hospitaility and leisure Review - Barclays
http://www.business.barclays.co.uk/BBB/A/Content/Files/Hospitality_
and_Leisure_Services.pdf
Brief Review: Great overview of spending on leisure etc.

Household expenditure:
http://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?queryname=18174&querytype=view&lang=en

Paper based sources found: Collins advanced vocation Leisure and recreation
Page number: 29
Brief Review: This book shows how much money was spent on consumer spending leisure up untill 1999

Paper based sources I have found: Collins advanced vocation leisure and recreation
Page number:page 31
Brief Review: Employment rates

Paper based sources I have found: Collins leisure studies AS endoresed by excel
Page number:age number: 20
Brief Review: participation rates

Consumer spending:
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=311648
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=571642

Europe
Consumer spending in Europe on leisure products and services

Website found:
http://lysander.sourceoecd.org/pdf/fact2006pdf/10-02-02.pdf
Brief review - comparison of household expenditure on leisure activities between European Countries.

Germany - household expenditure - leisure:
http://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?queryname=18153&querytype=view&lang=en

France - household expenditure - leisure:
http://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?queryname=18152&querytype=view&lang=en

Spain - household expenditure - leisure:
http://stats.oecd.org/viewhtml.aspx?queryname=18169&querytype=view&lang=en

Participation trends in the UK in the most popular leisure activities.

Increase in leisure time since 1965 - data:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Labor/images/wm1596_table_2-lg.gif

Increase in leisure time in the UK from 2000 to 2005: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/time_use_2005.pdf (p17)

Participation rates in Sports and Lesiure - covers many segments: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/sport&leisure.pdf

Name:http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_social/Social_Trends 37/Social_Trends_37.pdf
Brief Review: Participation trends in the UK from the Government Statistics website. p172-181 contain lots of useful information.

http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/research/TP-surveyAnnualData-0607.pdf
Brief Review: Participation rates for a range of different activities. Probably best to use in your range section.

Paper based sources found: Collins Leisure Studies (p20-23)

Paper based sources found:Advanced Leisure and recreation
Page number: 53
Brief Review: Percentage of household expenditure

Paper based sources I have found: Advanced Leisure and recreation
Page number: 54
Brief Review: Attendences at cultureal events

Websites found:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/TimeUse/summary_results/default.asp
Brief Review: results of UK time use survey

Websites found:
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_job_
sectors/Sport_and_leisure/future_trends/p!efXXXl
Brief Review: Information on future trends in the sport and leisure sector.

Website found:
http://www.william-reed.co.uk/UploadedImages/MainPageFiles\2.pdf
Brief review: Report in to current trends and future prospects for the industry. Only some sections have been included but those that are there are useful.

Participation trends in Europe in the most popular leisure activities.

Participation data in France:
http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france_159/culture-and-media_6819/culture-media-and-leisure-key-figures_1401.html

Variations in participation rates - p21-23 Collins Leisure Studies (the activity on p23 could be useful)

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European Countries:

http://www.bls.gov/bls/other.htm - links to national statistics websites

Germany:

Time Use Survey - Overview

German Statistics Web Site - try putting leisure into the search box!

France:

National Institute for Statistics - This page has documents containing information about participation rates in different activities. Most seems to be in French so you may need to use an online translator such as: Babel Fish. You can just copy and past the web address into the box. It will then translate the page. Click here to see the National Institute for Statistics page translated.

Spain:

http://www.ine.es/prodyser/pubweb/anuario09/anu09_04cultu.pdf - Page 16 contains useful info

Website found: http://www.culturestatistics.net/europeanindicators.pdf
Brief Review - comparison statistics for a range of leisure activities across Europe - useful for range and scale and comparing participation levels for a range of leisure components. Some info is in German!