ABSTRACT

Concise and thoroughly detailed Managing Sport and Leisure Facilities is a clean operating guide to leisure management by contract, providing expert advice for both contractor and client. The author includes extracts from the relevant legislation and tender documents, and shows you how to submit a winning tender. He provides guidance on how to carry out customer surveys and also covers special items such as operating leisure facilities in hotels and sub-contracting catering services.

chapter One|14 pages

Background to leisure management

chapter Two|27 pages

Client contract preparations

chapter Three|17 pages

The financial basis

chapter Four|18 pages

Business planning and tendering

chapter Five|15 pages

Recreation contractors—tender experiences

chapter Six|20 pages

Delegation and contract management

chapter Seven|12 pages

Chapter Seven: Hotels: the leisure experience

chapter Eight|17 pages

Catering and subcontracting

chapter Nine|21 pages

Performance indicators

chapter Ten|14 pages

Management buyouts

chapter Eleven|24 pages

Quality assurance

chapter Twelve|27 pages

Promotions and Marketing

chapter Thirteen|6 pages

Conclusions