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During the past decade employment opportunities in the UK leisure, tourism and hospitality industries have shown significant growth, creating a substantial demand for appropriately trained, well-qualified personnel. The hybrid nature of the leisure management profession with its diverse origins has resulted in turn in the proliferation of a wide variety of training opportunities of every conceivable kind. These range from traditional and updated industry-led courses with a high vocational content and relatively specific focus, to the ever-increasing repertoire of more academically-based full- and part-time degree and diploma courses, both generic and specific, now offered within many university and college departments (Fleming, 1994; Harrington, 1994). Most of the latter now incorporate a range of relevant core business disciplines such as financial management, strategic planning, operations management, marketing, and public relations, reflecting the increasingly sharp economic focus now required of contemporary leisure providers, whether located in the private or the public sector of the industry (Sugden & Knox, 1992; Collier, 1995).
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Johnson, A., Snaith, T. (1998). Project-Based Learning in Leisure Management Training. In: Milter, R.G., Stinson, J.E., Gijselaers, W.H. (eds) Educational Innovation in Economics and Business III. Educational Innovation in Economics and Business, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1388-7_12
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