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A Career with Meaning: Recreation, Parks, Sport Management, Hospitality, and Tourism 4th Edition eBook

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COMING SOON: FALL 2025

COPYRIGHT : 2025

Edition: 4th

Editor: Keri A Schwab

ISBN: 978-1-962710-30-5

The 4th edition of A Career with Meaning brings exciting and informative updates. Published post-pandemic, these chapters provide updates on career trends, required knowledge, and possibilities in a world where work expectations and leisure experiences have greatly changed. Career success in 2025 and beyond means being comfortable providing, creating, or using artificial intelligence, big data, health and safety measures, virtual or augmented reality, and app-enhanced leisure. This updated text provides examples and advice on many topics including remote work, technology in leisure, and how global trends have and will continue to impact work and leisure for the latter half of this decade. 
 

Chapter 1 Recreation and Leisure in North American Life 

Cheryl L. Stevens and Keri A. Schwab 

 

Chapter 2 Understanding Careers in Recreation, Parks, Sport Management, 

Hospitality, and Tourism 

Keri A. Schwab and Cheryl L. Stevens

 

Chapter 3 Basic Leisure Frameworks and Theories 

Keri Schwab 

 

Chapter 4 Community Recreation and Leisure Services 

Kindal Shores (and Clifton Watts)

 

Chapter 5 Recreation in Nonprofit Organizations 

Jo An M. Zimmermann

 

Chapter 6 Armed Forces Recreation 

Token D. Barnthouse (and Asuncion T. Suren)

 

Chapter 7 Outdoor Recreation in Federal, State, and Local Parks 

Chris A.B. Zajchowski, (William Hendricks, Tony Sisto, and Cheryl L. Stevens)

 

Chapter 8 Recreational Therapy and Therapeutic Recreation 

Thomas K. Skalko, Richard Williams, and Lindsey Ryan Oakes

 

Chapter 9 Campus Recreation, Leisure, and Intramurals 

Jill Sturts, (Doug Kennedy and Tina M. Aldrich)

 

Chapter 10 Sport Management and Sport Teams 

Robert J. Barcelona 

 

Chapter 11 Event Planning and Management 

Kevin Lin, (Emilyn Sheffield and Polly Crabtree)

 

Chapter 12 The Hospitality Industry 

Cortney Tucker, (Morgan W. Geddie, Yao-Yi Fu, and Chang Lee)

 

Chapter 13 Travel and Tourism 

Abhijeet Shirsat, (Vinod Sasidharan and Greg Shaw)

 

Chapter 14 Commercial Recreation and Leisure Businesses 

Daniel G. Pilgreen, (Paige P. Viren, Christina Beckmann,  and Jim Greiner)

 

Chapter 15 Preparing for a Career in Recreation 

Jerusha Greenwood (and Craig M. Ross)

 

Chapter 16 Forces Shaping the Future 

Keri Schwab, (Daniel Dustin, James Murphy)


 

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