ABSTRACT
Seeing the title of this chapter, some of you may remember seminars back in the 1970s that looked forward to an age of leisure for all, supported by information technology and robotics. As we all know it has not worked out like that. Here, I shall try, based on some recent work for the World Tourism Organization (WTO), to outline what is happening to leisure time, why, how it affects tourism and finally take a look at prospects for the future.
