Abstract
Academic departments of park and recreation resources have recently moved to establish majors in commercial recreation in response to fewer job opportunities in the public sector combined with a lessening of demand from students for the traditional natural resource management career.
It is proposed that a marketable career option for commercial recreation graduates 1s resort management. Resorts combine three elements-management of the natural resource base; management of guest activities; management of services. Because of the expertise in the first two areas found in departments of park and recreation resources a joint program with a hotel school, which provides education in the management of food and lodging, would ensure a graduate with the skills and education necessary to meet the challenge of resort management.
Recommended Citation
Mill, Robert C.
(1983)
"An Academic Program for Resort Managers,"
Visions in Leisure and Business: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 14.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/visions/vol2/iss1/14