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Professor John Richard Akana
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Chapter 10 Summary
The word recreation is defined as the use of time for therapeutic refreshment of one’s body or mind. Recreation is free time that people use to restore, rest, and relax their minds and bodies. Recreational activities can be passive or active, individual or group activities. Recreational activities range from cultural pursuits such as museums or theaters, to sports or outdoor recreation such as amusement parks, community centers, playgrounds, and libraries. These services involve various levels of government. Today, city governments are increasingly expected to provide recreational facilities such as golf courses, swimming pools, picnic areas, and playgrounds as a community service. Commercial recreation for example, theme parks, clubs, and attractions—involves a profit for the supplier of the recreational activity. Clubs are places where members gather for social, recreational, professional, or fraternal reasons. There are many different types of clubs such as country clubs and city clubs categorized according to the interests they represent to their members.
Noncommercial recreation includes governmental and nonprofit agencies, such as voluntary organization, campus, armed forces, and employee recreation, and recreation for special populations, such as the physically challenged. Our national parks are under serious threat from a number of sources, including congestion resulting from over visitation, consequent environmental degradation, and pollution. There are too many people and too many vehicles in the most popular national parks. Many visitors bring their city lifestyle, leaving garbage lying around, listening to loud music, and leaving the trails in worse shape.
Fyaad Nazim
Chapter 10
Prof. A
What is recreation? Recreation is allowing people to have fun and make memories, or at least that’s what it is in the hospitality industry. To do this we must have some Leisure which is time spent from work/school, etc. An example of this can be spent at a national park which were founded in 1916 by congress. Then there’s theme parks such as disney that focuses on one thing. There are many other attractions including regional theme parks, animal attractions, historic places, museums, performing arts, etc. Managing theme parks is similar to managing a business containing the same functions such as planning, organizing, decision making, and controlling. Clubs are also another hot spot where people gather to socialize. The club industry can lead to billion of dollars towards economic impact. Theres many different type of clubs although they don’t provide sleeping accommodations who doesn’t enjoy going to clubs.
Tania Garcia
Chapter 10 summary
Recreation is the use of someone’s time to relax one’s mind and body. Recreational activities can create everlasting bonds with those around us. By having a bit of leisure, free time from work, school or etc, one can plan more thoroughly. Recreational activities can be something as simple as a park, like Central Park, or theme parks, such as Disney world, but use the same main management functions. These functions include planning, organizing, decision making and controlling. Attractions that include this management can also include theaters, museums, animal attractions, historical sites and more; the variation of attractions help suit everyones needs depending on what they are searching for. Another form and very popular recreational amenity are clubs. Clubs such as country, athletic, dinning and etc create a grand impact on our economy. On the contrary noncommercial recreation can include, voluntary organizations, campus and etc. Noncommercial recreation differentiate from commercial recreation because their purpose isn’t to sale a product or service.
To use your recreational time , you have lots of options. Government guided and sponsored or privately owned. Nature filled and recharging or kids craziness and lots of themed fun. One has a choice of many national parks throughout US or theme parks like Disney or Hershey’s. There are zoos, see worlds and legolands.
Heritage tourism has always been popular and includes researching and observing historical sites. It is believed there are places inside cities that you must see ( i e Eifel Tower in Paris) and there are museums you can not miss ( i e Met in NYC).
It is also believed there are places you have to see before you die. And of course it is Paris, Rome etc.
Interesting topic is private clubs. It attracts people by hobbies, business, status and recreation ( whatever it is for them ) . Club management is similar to hotel management.
Chapters 4 and 5
Directors of Food and Beverages are responsible for any place that requires food and beverages: kitchens, banquets, lounges, mini bars, etc. Depending on the size of the hotel, the head or executive chef may oversee the hotel’s kitchens and some are called kitchen managers. Food cost percentage is calculated by dividing the food cost by food sale, while the labor cost is measured by dividing the cost of labor by food sales. Usually the larger the hotel and higher the room rate, the more likely it is to have room service, though there are a few problems with that, such as a customer complaining about excessive charges. We can practice sustainability in food and beverage operations by saving water and electricity, recycling more and purchasing local products- lowering our carbon footprint by transportation distances.
Wines can be classified by light beverage wines (still wines: red, white, rose), sparkling wines, fortified and aromatic wines. Still wines can be matched with certain foods to enhance flavors such as white wine paired with poultry and fish; and red wine with red meats. There have been studies that state a glass of wine is beneficial to our health. Organic wines tend to use more environmentally methods that use no chemicals and pesticides. Beers includes: lager, ale, stout, and pilsner. Beer breweries can lower their ecological footprint by recycling paper, water treatment to reduce their water use, and by having generally more efficient breweries. Spirits are fermented and distilled liquids. Proof is determined by twice the alcohol percentage in the US. Cocktails became popular in the 1920’s and 30’s, and are made by mixing two or more ingredients. Well alcohol are known as bottom shelf (cheaper drinks) and calls are usually the most expensive of the type of spirits. Bars are liable if they are found serving minors and to intoxicated people.
Janele Garrison
Perspective of Hospitality Management
Professor Akana
Chapter 5 &6 summary
Wine is made from grape juice. Wine can be made in several ways
• Light wine
• Sparkling wine
• Fortified wine
• Aromatic wine
Light wine can be white, red, or rose. Sparkling wine is also champagne. Champagne come only from the champagne region of France. Fortified and aromatic are flavored with herbs, roots, flowers, and barks. Wine was established about 7,000 years ago. Wine is made in 6 simple methods. Red wine gets it color during the period of its fermenting. Each wine has it particular food that it goes with. Labeling wine varies from country to country. Beer is a brewed and fermented beverage. Beer consist of mostly bout average 3.8 and 8 percent of alcohol. Brew is a process with takes time. The USDA established the National Organic Program in 1997 which reduce their ecological footprint. Bars in restaurants are usual where the quests stay to enjoy cocktail or appetizer before dinner. The bars can be held liable for serving a minor or someone who is already intoxicated.
Restaurant is a place to relax and enjoy the company of family and friends and also to restore energy. Restaurant is a French word that means restore. Restaurants are mutli-billion businesses and the employ about 12.8 million people. North America gain most of its culinary legacy from France by the French revolution in 1793 and when Thomas Jefferson when to France in 1784 and brought back a chef and had in the white house when he can the president. Classical Cuisine as five mother sauces: BĂ©chamel, Veloute, Espagnole, Tomato and Hollandaise. The restaurant market is composed of the guest it will attract. The location also plays a major part in it. The concept of the restaurant as to fit the location and the people living in the area. There are different classification of restaurant such as: fine dining celebrity restaurant, family restaurant, ethnic restaurant, theme restaurant etc.
Chapter 4 Food and beverage operations
The manager of food and beverage is also known as the director of food and beverage, he is to report to the general manager and is responsible for the effectiveness of the department. In the kitchen of a restaurant they have their own manager and he is the executive chef. Costs are very important because there is labor costs and staffing as well as food costs as well. The labor cost is measured by how much one person can handle by hour and food cost is measured by dividing food costs with how much the food item is sold for. Bars have a higher profit percentage makings bars in hotels a must to gain additional revenue. Bars differ in larger hotels, there is a lobby bar and restaurant bar but there is also a service bar, pool bars, minibars which are usually located in the rooms.
Chapter 5 beverages
Wine is fermented from grapes. They can be classified in different ways, light beverage wines (white, rose and red), sparkling wines (champagne), fortified wines and aromatic wines. Champagne, sparling white wine and sparling rose wine goes through a second fermentation in the bottle itself, this process is known as methode champenoise. By law, champagne only comes from the champagne region of france. Records about making wine goes back 7,000 years. Wine is made in 6 steps: crushing, fermenting, racking, maturing, filtering and bottling. Red wine gains its color during the fermentation process from the coloring pigments of the red grape skins. Matching foods with wine go great together. White wines: Poultry, fish, and egg entrees. Red wines: any red meat. Sparkling wines: any course. The heavier the food, heavier the wine. Champagne can be served throughout the meal. A glass of wine can be beneficial to your health. Whisky is the name of the spirit first distilled in Scotland and Ireland centuries ago. You can grab drinks from restaurants and hotel bars, nightclubs and sport bars.
Tania Garcia
4 and 5 Chapter Summary
In a hotel one of the vital departments is food and beverage. The director of food and beverage is responsible for most food services such as banquets,catering, restaurants and etc. They must exhibit skills such as leadership, budgeting, cost control and more to be a successful director. Below the director is the executive chef, kitchen managers, and depending on the size of the kitchen they could just be the chef. They control costs and report annually, monthly and weekly food cost budgets to the director. Vital cost that they look at are food cost, labor cost and labor cost benchmarks; these costs have a specific algorithm to figure the cost of each. While food costs do bring a big profit, bars can bring in the most profit. A bar’s efficiency can be shown by the pour by cost percentage.
Transitioning into alcohol the variety of alcoholic drinks has increased since its creation. For example wine has been known to go hand in hand with various dishes and can be traced back about 7,000 years. Wine, fermented grape juice, can be classified into many categories such as light, sparkling, fortified and aromatic. White wine is known to go perfectly with poultry, sparkling wines can go with any course; the heavier the food the heavier the wine. It is known by many that a glass of wine can be quite beneficial to your health. Going into a more “layback” drink beer can come to mind. Unlike wine beer is both brewed and fermented from malted barley and other starchy cereals. any thing else can be labeled into a spirit. Bars overall can bring a big revenue if set up is organized and efficient.
Maria Claris Pineda
Chapter 10 Summary
The word recreation is defined as the use of time for therapeutic refreshment of one’s body or mind. Leisure is best described as time free from work, or discretionary time. Various levels of government that constitute government-sponsored recreation are intertwined, yet distinct, in the parks, recreation, and leisure services. Government raises taxes revenue from income taxes, sales taxes, and property taxes. The national parks service was founded to conserve park resources. Commercial recreation are often called eco- or adventure tourism, which provides residents and visitors with access to an area’s spectacular wilderness through a variety of guided outdoor activities. Theme parks and attractions vary according to theme, which might be historical, cultural, geographical, and etc. historic places, sites, and museums are a part of what is now called heritage tourism. Theaters once were immensely important. In a time before people had access to modern inventions like radio or television, books and theater were the only entertainment available. It is no longer attractive only to the upper class with affordable prices. Managing attractions use the same main functions in management which are planning, organizing, decision making, and controlling. Clubs are places where members gather for social, recreational, professional, and fraternal reasons. Types of clubs are city clubs, professional clubs, social clubs, athletic clubs, dining clubs, university clubs, military clubs, yacht clubs, fraternal clubs, and proprietary clubs. Noncommercial recreation includes voluntary organizations, campus recreation, armed forces recreation, employee recreation, and recreation for special populations.
Lisa Torres
Perspectives In Hospitality Management
Prof. Akana
Chapter 10 summary
Recreation allows people to have fun together and form lasting relationships built on the experiences they have enjoyed together. Recreation is defined as the use of time for therapeutic refreshment of one’s body or mind. Recreation can be closely identified with leisure which means time free from work. It can be as simple as going to a park, a theme park, zoos, historic sites, museums, etc. All of these places use the same management functions which include planning, organizing, decision making, and controlling. They give people a variety of things to do and to keep their mind off “anything that stresses them”, or just some time to relax.
The term recreation means to have time to relax your mind as well as your body from all the stress. Recreation is very beneficial because it allows people to have a sensational time forming a ever lasting relationship throughout the experience you went through with that person. The term recreation is related to the term leisure because it means to have free time from one’s job. Resorts, zoo’s,parks and even muesiums can be considered as a recreational places because they allow people to have a very fun time and forget about work for a brief moment.
Course: HMGT 1101
Prof. Akanas
Moon Chen
Chapter 10 introduces the recreation centers, themes parks and also clubs. Recreation means people spend time for therapeutic refreshment of one’s mind and body. There are different kinds of recreation such as government-sponsored recreation, commercial recreation and public recreation. National Parks service was found in 1916, and by 1917 there are around national parks divided in 7 regions. National parks services are providing more than 21,000 employments. Government collects tax revenue for the budget of the recreations, and recreations are collecting TOT accommodation tax revenue for the government. There are several kinds of theme parks, including Walt Disney, Hershey’s, animal attractions, historic places/sites, etc. The most famous one is of course Walt Disney, and it started with Mickey and Minnie filmmaking. Walt and Roy develop other projects like magic kingdom, epcots, universal studios and sea world parks. Managing attractions and theme parks is similar to managing any business with four key points such as planning, organizing, decision making and controlling. Clubs are places where members gather for social, recreational, professional, and fraternal reasons. There are different types of clubs in the US, such as country clubs, city clubs, dinning clubs and military clubs, etc. Golf club is considering the most sustainability as referenced by the EPA. Club management is similar to hotel management, but the main difference is most clubs do not offer sleeping accommodations and guest feels more important and valuable to be one of the club members.
Yanibel Medina
11/01/2017
Perspective in Hospitality Management
Chapter 10
Recreation allows people to have fun together on the experiences they have together. Government raises revenue from taxes, sale taxes, and property taxes. The national parks service was founded in 1916 by the congress. More than 300 million visitors go to the parks each year. The national park services’ budget is 3.24 million and it employs 21,587 people. The recreational management started in the 1920’s and 1930s. commercial recreation provides residents to access an area’s wilderness through outdoor activities (chpt 10). Themes parks began with Knott’s Berry Farms. Walt Disney traveled from Kansas City to Los Angeles to start a business. Mickey & Minnie appeared in Steamboat Willie, and over the years Walt made many Mickey Mouse movies and built a legacy. Marine life parks include Sea World, Water Country, Discovery Cave etc. in 1900’s Hershey’s started producing milk chocolate. In 1906, Hershey Park opened and continue its legacy. The seven wonders of the ancient world are the first site visited in recorded history.
Chapter 10 speaks about recreation. Recreations allow people to get together and have fun from recreation gyms pools parks playground. The government usually raise money from taxes, sales tax and property taxes to build these recreation centers. More than 300 million people go to these recreation places. They even had a showed about this call parks& rec. These recreational center usually employ up to 21,587 people and has a budget of 3.24 million
Chapter 10 Summary
Kazuyoshi Karasudani
The word “recreation” is defined as the use of time for therapeutic refreshment of one’s body or mind. “Leisure” is best described as time free from work, or discretionary time. Government sponsored recreation is that in which government raises revenue from income taxes, sales taxes and property taxes. Additionally, the government raises special revenue from recreation-related activities such as automobiles and recreational vehicles, boats, motor fuels, transient occupancy taxes on hotel accommodations, etc.
The National Park Service was founded in 1916.There are 397 national parks divided into seven regions. The National Park Service budget for 2011 was $3.14 billion, and it employs a staff of 21,501. There are an abundance of theme parks located throughout the United States. In 1923, Walt Disney started a new business in Los Angeles. Walt Disney World is now the most popular destination resort in the world since its opening in 1971. Universal Studios has guided tours on its famous movies sets, and stands as the most formidable competitor facing the Disney Corporation. The first zoo in the United States was the Philadelphia Zoo, built in 1859. Even today, zoos are very popular, and 150 billion people visit a U.S. zoo every year. There are many types of museums, including general, art and science, as well as many others. The number of museums in the United States has more than quadrupled since 1950.
Noncommercial recreation includes: Voluntary organization, campus recreation, Armed Forces Recreation, Employee Recreation, and Recreation for special populations.
Amos wescott
Recreation is defined as the use of time for therapeutic of ones body or mind, recreation allows people to have fun together and build on the experiences they enjoyed together. Leisure is time free from work(alone time). The national park service was founded in 1916 by congress to conserve park resources and to provide for their use by the public. There are 367 parks and it is covered by more than 80 million acres of land. More than 300 million visitors go to the parks each year. There is 397 national parks divided into 7 regions and the director of the national park service establishes and approves service wide natural resource policies and standards. The national park service budget for 2011 is 3.14 billion and it employs a staff of 21,501. There are many themes parks and attractions that’s brings revenue. One of those theme parks would be walt Disney. Walt Disney has Magic kingdom, epcot, disneys Hollywood studios, universal studios and animal kindom. Animal attractions (zoos)bring in 150 million people a year. The first zoo in the united states was the Philadelphia zoo built in 1859 . today zoos are still popular and there is a major zoo in almost every major city. Museums and clubs are other types of attractions people tend to enjoy. Musuems and clubs along with our other attractions brings in billions of dollars.
Victoria Liao
HGMT 1101
Professor John Akana
November 2,2017
Chapter 10 Summary
In chapter 10, it talks about recreation which is the use of time for therapeutic refreshment of one`s mind. Government sponsored recreation is when the government raises the revenue from income taxes, sales taxes, and property taxes. Recreation management came about in the 1920s and 1930s. Recreation and social programs was offered as a community service. Commercial recreations are often called eco or adventure tourism provides residents with and visitors with access to an area’s spectacular wilderness through guided outdoor activities. Theme parks and attractions can vary according to the theme which can be historical, cultural, and geographical. Knott’s Berry Farms was founded in Buena Park, California. It was a berry farm and a tea room. The business grew and different type of attractions were added. Magic Kingdom is the heart of Walt Disney World and is the famous theme park where Mickey Mouse, Snow White, Peter Pan are found. There are more than forty major shows and ride-through attractions including shops and different dining facilities. Epcot is also found in Disney and 2 major themes which are Future World and World Showcase. Disney’s Hollywood Studios was formerly named as Disney MGM Studios which combines the motion picture, animation, and television studio. In 1907, Milton Hershey opened Hershey Park as a leisure park. Some regional theme parks are Dollywood, LegoLand, GatorLand, and Wet n’ Wild. The most popular destination in the world since the opening in 1971 is Walt Disney World.
It is important to always try to do something fun when one has free time from work.It helps release the stress ad the anxiety. There are many ways to have fun, some people enjoy going to the museum, some people like to go to parks play some balls with friends or with their dog. There are also a lot of theme parks, that are fun such as six flags or water parks, or one of the most famous one Walt Disney. There offer a lot of jobs and make a very good revenue.
In chapter 10 “Recreation, Attractions, and Clubs” we learn of all the things hotels may have to offer for guest to unwind and enjoy themselves. Not all hotels can offer forms of recreational activity, so they are often built near places that provide some. Some hotels may provide transportation to off-site facilities such as an amusement park, museums, national park, or historic sites. Hotels want their guest to feel at home and relax, the word recreation is defined as the use of time for therapeutic refreshment of one’s body or mind.