Proceedings Of The National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium Ii

Excerpt from Proceedings of the National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium II, Vol. 1: Held at the Myrtle Beach Hilton, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, February 24-27, 1985; General Sessions The 1985 Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium, held February 24-27 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, provided managers, planners, researchers and others with an Opportunity to share trend data and futuristic insights. The 1985 Symposium was a sequel to the first Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium, held in Durham, New Hampshire, in 1980. Papers presented at the 1985 Symposium addressed developing trends in economics, social characteristics, policy, tourism, recreation activities, the private sector, research and other facets of outdoor recreation. The Proceedings will be made available to the Presidential Commission on Outdoor Recreation Resources Review as it undertakes its assignment to reassess the status of outdoor recreation in America. Most of us would agree that a phenomenal rate of change has occurred in outdoor recreation since the original Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission report in 1962. The research that focuses on what is happening in outdoor recreation has changed also. It has moved from the static descriptive and prescriptive research of the orrrc era to a more dynamic approach that examines trends and shifts, not only in what we are doing in outdoor recreation, but why we do it. It is no longer enough to know that participation in certain activities grew in a given period; we must examine why! We now must know what motivates participation, how policy impacts these changes, what effect economic conditions have, how technology drives participation and so on. And we also seek sound predictions of what the future will bring so that we can plan better, develop better, invest better and manage better for this massive outdoor recreation business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.