ABSTRACT
The plan for this chapter is to cover the various formal leisure organizations that are formed to promote, facilitate, and enhance leisure activities (clubs, associations, social enterprises, etc.). Also considered here are the leisure service organizations established to enable and thereby facilitate leisure activities (parks, governmental recreational programs, sport and recreational facilities, etc.). Volunteer organizations, a third type, though often not established to promote or facilitate leisure, nonetheless engage volunteers and thereby make possible their kind of leisure for these helpers. One or more of these types become common elements in the social world that springs up around every serious pursuit. Though social worlds are minimal to nonexistent in the casual leisure activities, formal organizations do promote, facilitate, and enhance some of them.
