TOURISM

Leisure Tourism in Aberdeen

Executive Summary

In past few years, leisure tourism has gained the attention of academic as well as the business world. For some, it is a mean of spending quality time whereas for others, it might become a source of running a business. This report has strived to highlight the significance of leisure tourism in Aberdeen city and Shire and the contribution this industry has and will make to Scotland's economy.

The report starts with a brief overview of the topic in accordance with Nash's model and tourism in the city. It has incorporated the vision and strategy of the government with international tourism's role in benefit of city and tourists.

Different aspects and impact of Trump plan are also part of this report with economic multiplier and its effects on the economy. Finally, four organizations from public and private sector are presented with spot lighting their role, rationale and ways to operated.Leisure Tourism in Aberdeen

Introduction

Tourism could be defined as an activity of moving from one place to another in purpose of entertaining and becoming aware of other cultures and civilizations or when individuals or group of individuals move from one country to another for performing a specific task. This industry is dependent on culture and science and could have a direct impact on tourist countries' national revenues (DiscoverAlex, 2012, p. n.d.).

Leisure time could be stated as a person's time free from work demands, and it is the time when a person could enjoy his or her hobbies or he or she could rest (Pearsonschool, n.d., p. 12). In 1960, Nash had proposed the use of leisure for specific human activities that could be classified into four levels including creative involvement, active, emotion and passive. He proposed a leisure model that was illustrating the use of leisure time leisure activities' progression, and it was similar to the hierarchical needs proposed by Maslow (Torkildsen, 2005, p. 48).

Figure 01: Nash's Model of Leisure time (Williams & Buswell, 2003, p. 72)

In this model, Nash has attached value to each defined level. He put the worthy values at the apex of the pyramid and the activities at the base were undesirable and negative in value. For him, leisure time of a person could be regarded as a positive period in which one could opt to do whatever he or she wanted to do (Torkildsen, 2005, p. 47). The term leisure had been used by theorists as a series of experiences that could be undertaken by people in their free time.

Every human is being filled with inbuilt desire to play where one seeks experience of recreation with the need for leisure experience that may give one the feeling of pleasure (Horner & Swarbrooke, 2005, p. 23).

Tourism in Aberdeen Area

Aberdeen city and Shire could be one of the best natural tourism offering in Scotland. The city is full of choices that one can search to spend the leisure time as the city hosts the largest national park of the country with being the strongest industrial heritage of ...