794-019 Recreational Facility Management

The objective of this subject is to extend participants' ability to:

• identify the user-resource conflicts inherent in a wide range of recreation facilities and the role of management in resolving these;

• describe the specific methods and approaches to recreation programming;

• describe the staff and staffing structures in recreation organisations;

• describe the nature, timing and intensity of maintenance and management inputs and techniques associated with recreation resources;

• describe the role of promotion and marketing to recreation facility management; and

• analyse a given recreation resource and generate appropriate facility management guidelines.

The principles of recreation facility management are covered in this subject including issues such as the objectives of recreation facilities, staff and staffing structures, manipulating visitor numbers and characteristics via pricing policies, opening times, specific methods and approaches to facility programming, promoting and marketing, assessing client needs and perceptions, and training for recreation facility managers.

Two reports of 2000 words each (100%).