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Outdoor Leisure Industry Adrian Durrant 'Leisure has been identified with elitism and class privilege since the earliest civilizations. However, leisure probably began with primitive cultures once the pressures for sustenance, security and basic needs were removed or in celebration after the hunt or during inclement weather. In simpler society's, the line between work and leisure is not indelibly drawn. In times past, and even in many parts of the world today, there are people who work so hard and long to sustain themselves and their families that their lives are devoid of what we might term 'leisure'. Peasant life often means working to survive, and playing when opportunity permits. In simple social systems leisure is part of the rhythms of life: night and day, the climate, the seasons, the harvest.' (Torkildsen 2005) This was an early view of how leisure was seen, over the years leisure has changed and gradually changed and...

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