A model of recreation services in local government

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to define an applicable model for organizing human resources, customer expectations, and service quality in recreational activities for local governments.

Sportive recreation is one of the areas that people spend their money on. Health consciousness is the main reason underneath. Government should support such kind of activities. Municipality is the main part of local government. This is the reason that municipalities are the main services provider for public. The local government should provide healthy, reliable, satisfactory, safe recreational activities.

The success of recreation units depends on the skilled stuff who know the wishes, interest and hopes of the society and who have been educated to hold the philosophy, concept and aims of recreation. The purpose is to enable the local governments to be professional institutions about recreational activities and is to establish a certain model. To reach the defined aim; it is to state recreational activities, applied education, to serve tutorial help to the amateur and professional practitioners, to contribute to the organizations like festival, exhibition, exposition, etc., to establish a concept by making practitioners and experts come together.