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Forces Shaping the Future

• Chapter 15

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Learning Outcomes

• Identify five major macro themes influencing recreation, parks, sports

management, hospitality, and tourism professionals and organizations

• Explain the concept of micro themes and how each theme is related to

recreation, parks, sports management, hospitality, and tourism services

• Evaluate the influence of macro and micro themes on the delivery of

recreation, parks, sports management, hospitality, and tourism services

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Learning Outcomes cont.

• Describe and explain how servant leadership and advocacy are important

roles for recreation, parks, sports management, hospitality, and tourism professionals and organizations

• Identify four guidelines for action for recreation, parks, sports management,

hospitality, and tourism professionals in assuring individual freedom and responsible community leisure engagement

• Evaluate the importance of why recreation, parks, sports management,

hospitality, and tourism professionals must be environmentally and socially conscious leaders in the future

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Forces Shaping the Future

• DIVERSITY
• Consider incorporating a pluralistic framework
• Early 21st Century influx of immigrants: 60% of net increase in minority

population due to immigration

• Leisure has potential of ameliorating social conflict and fostering community

cohesion

• By 2019, no single racial or ethnic group will be a majority

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Forces Shaping the Future

• SUSTAINABILITY
• Minimize carbon footprint
• Leisure services will be expected to play a leading role in conserving the

biodiversity of the planet

• Relationships extend from global to local level, affecting the well-being of the

planet and its inhabitants

• Consumptive forms of recreation will fall into disfavor as energy becomes

more costly

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Forces Shaping the Future

• HEALTH AND WELLNESS
• Leisure professionals play important role in fostering healthy living
• Recreation, parks, sports management, hospitality, and tourism professionals

must advocate that leisure opportunities be a part of comprehensive health promotion strategy

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Forces Shaping the Future

• PACE OF CHANGE AND TECHNOLOGY
• Traditional institutions don’t provide sufficient clarification to deal with

change

• Electronic/Wireless/Virtual technology serve as conveyers/interpreters of

change

• Social media will be as important as face-to-face expertise in working with

community members

• Recreation, parks, sports management, hospitality, and tourism professionals

must be adept at dealing with instantaneous communication

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Forces Shaping the Future

• FOURTH SECTOR (For-Benefit Organizations)
• Blend of commercial, public, and non-profit
• Socially conscious entrepreneurs
• Emphasize transparency, measureable impact, venture philanthropy, social

investing, economic sustainability, program-related investments, accountability

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Microtrends

• Small, intense subgroups
• North America: Moving in hundreds of different directions, all at once
• Examples of Microtrends
• Individual and nature-based sports
• Smart phones
• Homeschooling
• Slowing down
• Linguistically isolated households

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Microtrends and Leisure

• Accelerating fragmentation of community life
• Expansion of freedom of choice
• Leisure expression is more central to people’s overall life choices
• More individual choice threatens social cohesion
• Erosion of mass society – future driven by individual tastes

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Melding of Macro and Micro Themes

• 1. SERVANT LEADERSHIP
• Commitment to the growth of people
• Building community
• Stewardship
• Empathy and healing capacity
• Awareness
• Foresight
• Entrepreneurial
• Flexibility and adaptability

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Melding of Macro and Micro Themes

• 2. MAKING THE WORLD A MORE HABITABLE PLACE
• Slowing down – live less frantic lives
• Scaling down – live more consciously
• Stepping down from Anthropocentric pedestals: 


live life with reverence and restraint

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Melding of Macro and Micro Themes

• 3. BIOLOGICAL MISMATCH OF HUMAN BEINGS & ENVIRONMENTAL

PROBLEMS

• Humans as a species have not adapted to the natural world
• A professional cannot be a leader for constructive, sustainable change,

unless he or she views the end result on behalf of the community

• To move in a sustainable direction professionals must: slow down, scale

down, and step down from our anthropocentric pedestals

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Melding of Macro and Micro Themes

• 4. ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
• Recreation, parks, sports management, hospitality, and tourism

professionals will be in forefront

• Professionals will work to reduce social and ethnic disparities
• Adopting ecological model (considers environmental and social policy

variables as determinants of recreation expression): will assure full access

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Melding of Macro and Micro Themes

• 5. ADVOCACY
• Legitimate and essential role
• Recreation, Park, Sports Management, Hospitality, and Tourism

professionals assure a more habitable Earth

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Action Plan for Parks and Recreation: Important Missions Essential for Service (California Parks and Recreation Society)

• Strengthen community image and sense of place
• Support economic development
• Strengthen safety and security
• Promote health and wellness
• Foster human development
• Increase cultural unity
• Protect environmental resources
• Facilitate community problem-solving
• Provide recreational experiences

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Action Plan for Parks and Recreation: Core Competencies for Professional Leaders (California Parks and Recreation Society)

• Resourceful
• Knowledgeable of community
• Creator of experiences
• Partnership and coalition builder
• Facilitator
• Skilled in working with people
• Flexible
• Mediator
• Multi-tasker

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Conclusion:

• The Power of One
• World will rely on decisions made by Socially Conscious Servant Leaders to:
• Promote human dignity and fulfillment
• Advocate for sustaining fragile natural habitat and parklands
• Infuse a career with meaning by putting one’s own stamp on things

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Four Guidelines for Action (Dustin, McAvoy, Schultz, Bricker, Rose, and Schwab)

• Ideal of individual freedom
• Commitment to expanding opportunities
• Supporting the overall good of the community
• Ethical Principle: reconciliation of competing individual and societal interests

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