The rapid growth of the leisure and recreation industry from 1960 through to 1990.
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... Unit 1 Leisure & Recreation Faraz Ijaz Task 1 The rapid growth of the leisure and recreation industry from 1960 through to 1990 is due to a mix of many items that complimented each other, some of these can be identified as: 1. The increase of leisure time people had 2. Amount of disposable income 3. Increased, improved and widely available Mobility 4. Demographic Changes 5. Technological advancements 6. Government legislation 7. Changing consumer needs and fashions These helped structure the rapid growth of the leisure and recreation industry, through this unit I will be showing this and proving that the growth of the British leisure and recreational industry was a combination of all these factors. 1. Increase in leisure time available for many individual. To look at the increase of leisure time one will first need to see how the average person spends their day. Given here are 2 statistics of average persons, the first average person is from 1971














