Noemi Mendez Chapter #10 “Recreation, Attraction, and Clubs”

This chapter focus on the different types of recreation, attraction and clubs activities that are able to the public views and entertains around the United States. Some of theme attractions national parks are: the Walt Disney world, the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, the Disney’s Hollywood Studios, the Universal Studios, the Sea World, and the Hershey’s park. Some of the regional theme parks are Dollywood, Legoland, Gatorland, and Wet’N Wild. Also this chapter talked about some of the Animals attractions like the zoo and the aquariums. In addition, this chapter talked about historic places, museums, international destinations, the different type of clubs and noncommercial recreation.

Key Words and Concepts:

City clubs – Example: The Woman Club help women to empower themselves and to build new professional skills.

Club management – Example: The club management need to be very organize for the club to success.

Commercial recreation – Example: The commercial recreation provide guides to tourism in amusement parks or historic places.

Country clubs – Example: Country club are usually places near the beaches.

Government-sponsored recreation – Example: The government sponsored recreations by using the monies that are collected from taxes.

Heritage tourism – Example: The New York Culture Heritage Network is an example of heritage tourism.

Leisure – Example: In my leisure time, I love to sit in front of the beach in a bench and see the ocean view.

National park – Example: There are 397 national park in the United States with different themes.

National parks Service – Example: Is a law passed by congress that help to conserve the park natural resources and culture artifact.

National Register of Historic Places – Example:   The Old Slater Mill is an example of the first place register as a national register of historic place on 1966.

Noncommercial recreation– Example: Voluntary organization, campus, Armed forces and employment recreation are examples of noncommercial recreation.

Recreation – Example: It is important to know the recreations activities when you are planning a vacation to another states or a foreign country.

Recreation for special population – Example: Are recreations to accommodate people wit special disabilities.

Recreation management – Example: If you want to become a recreation management you need to get a degree from a college.

Theme Parks – Example: The Walt Disney world is one of the most famous theme park in the United States.

Transient occupancy tax (TOT) – Example: When I stay in a hotel, I need to pay the transient occupancy tax.

Voluntary organizations – Example: My daughter Destiny attend to a voluntary organization called a Faro Beacon after school program.

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