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Leisure has been undergoing a transformation that requires strategic design approaches open for imagination, inspiration and diverse organisational structure and behavioural models. The stakeholders within and the participants (not anymore defined just through the notion of consumers) have opened up the spectrum of what leisure could mean and sustain.This paper provides a detailed overview of the existence, essence and specifics of multifunctional leisure organizations, their principles and structures while relating them to two real-life cases from the Netherlands. Challenges, as well as future development scenarios, are presented and discussed.

Nostalgia is one of the most critical constructs influencing individuals' future behavioral intention. However, a measurement scale for nostalgia has not been widely explored and has not been developed in the context of leisure. Therefore, the study aimed to develop a scale, based on the classification of nostalgia, to measure nostalgic leisure behavior. This study followed a rigorous scale development procedure to achieve adequate psychometric properties. The leisure nostalgia scale developed in this study contributes to a deeper understanding of nostalgia in leisure and expands extant knowledge by building a comprehensive conceptual framework in leisure research. In addition, a better understanding of leisure nostalgia allows researchers to extend this model with other leisure constructs and more effectively explain leisure participation in various populations. Drawing on the findings of this study, managers in the leisure industry can develop and implement effective strategies to appeal to leisure participants and promote business competitiveness.

This textbook describes the relevance of economics to the tourism and leisure industries, helping you to pass an economics module as part of a tourism, recreation or sport management degree. It applies economic theory to a range of tourism industry issues at the consumer, business, national and international level by using topical examples to give the theory real-world context. The author explains the impact of the global economic crisis and the importance of understanding what has happened over the course of previous economic business cycles to prepare for what may happen in the future. Contrasting evidence is put forward to provide a sense of the dynamics of world economies. 1. Introduction Part 1: Organisations and markets 2. Organisations 3. Markets Part 2: Further issues of demand and supply 4. Demand: Time Preference 5. Elasticity and Forecasting 6. Supply and Costs Part 3: Markets in Practice 7. Market Structure and Pricing 8. Market Intervention Part 4: The External Operating Environment 9. The Competitive, Technological, Political and Sociocultural Environment 10. The Macro-Economic Environment Politics and Socio-culture Part 5: Investment 11. Investment in the Private Sector 12. Investment in the Public Sector Part 6: Economic Impacts 13. Income, Employment and Prices 14. Economic Development and Regeneration Part 7: The Global Economy 15. The Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates 16. Globalisation Part 8: Environmental Economics 17. Environmental Impacts 18. Sustainability 19. Critique 20. Critique, Alternative Perspectives and Change 21. Political, and Social Economy?

Work-leisure facilitation refers to the extent to which a person's engagement in work/leisure domain contributes to enhancing the functioning of leisure/work domain. Work-leisure facilitation comprises two directions: work-to-leisure and leisure-to-work facilitations. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among work-leisure facilitation, work/leisure self-efficacy, and work/leisure satisfaction, and to explore the possible mediating effect of work/leisure self-efficacy. Four hundred tour leaders/guides in Taiwan were chosen as the respondents by using the systematic sampling from the Association of Tour Leaders and the Association of Tour Guides in Taiwan. The results showed that work-to-leisure/leisure-to-work facilitation has significant positive effects on work/leisure satisfaction, leisure/work satisfaction, and leisure/work self-efficacy; leisure/work self-efficacy has a significantly positive effect on leisure/work) satisfaction. Moreover, the results also showed that work/leisure self-efficacy has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between leisure-to-work/work-to-leisure facilitation and work/leisure satisfaction.

Work and leisure are important parts of people’s lives, and achieving a balance between work and leisure has become a key concern. However, previous studies have ignored the work-leisure balance (WLB) relationship, and no relevant research has been conducted to reveal the possible influence of the work-leisure interface on WLB satisfaction. Based on the demand-resource model, this study first explored the characteristics of the work-leisure interface and then analysed the relationship between the work-leisure interface and WLB satisfaction, as well as the roles of boundary control and WLB self-efficacy in this relationship. Based on a sampling of 104 employees over five consecutive working days, it was found that work-to-leisure conflict (WLC) was negatively correlated with work-to-leisure facilitation (WLF), and leisure-to-work conflict (LWC) was negatively correlated with leisure-to-work facilitation (LWF). The influences of various factors of the work-leisure interface on WLB satisfaction differ. WLC and WLF can not only directly impact WLB satisfaction but also indirectly exert influence through boundary control. The relationships of LWC and LWF with WLB satisfaction were not significant. WLB self-efficacy positively moderates the positive relationship between boundary control and WLB satisfaction. This study not only deepens the understanding of the work-leisure relationship but also provides some management suggestions for enterprise management and employees’ healthy living.

This article assesses the status of hierarchical leisure constraints theory (Crawford & Godbey, 1987; Crawford, Jackson, & Godbey, 1991) regarding many issues. Such issues include clarification and elaboration of some aspects of the original model, a review of studies which have used or examined the model and the extent to which they are confirmatory, critiques of the original model by various authors, and avenues for further research. Conclusions drawn include that the model is cross culturally relevant, that the model may examine forms of behavior other than leisure, and that, while research to date has been largely confirmatory, there is a high potential for the theory to be expanded in order to advance leisure constraints research to the next level.