The hotel and resort business is highly competitive. While many hotels offer a gym where guests can get in a quick workout, it's wise to go above and beyond and incorporate your fitness offerings into your marketing, especially if you're focused on reaching customers who believe in eco-conscious choices.
To protect the environment for the long term, you need to keep educating people, young and old, about why that's a worthwhile goal. Environmental education programs of all kinds connect people of all ages with the natural world around them, growing tomorrow's conservationists today.
From climbing and bouldering walls to ropes courses, challenge courses and obstacle courses, there's a tremendous range of adventure out there for the taking. Find out more about how to best manage these types of amenities, from getting folks interested to keeping them coming back for more.
Parks do a tremendous service to the communities that surround them. They provide a place to relax, to play, to get active, to interact with friends, families and community members, to see a concert—to get involved, in big ways and small.
Before starting here at Recreation Management, I worked for a different publisher, where we had a standing weekly meeting every Monday morning. At that meeting, six or seven of us would gather around the table to talk about all of the projects we were working on. We brainstormed new ideas, got plans rolling and conducted post-mortems on projects that had been completed.
Aquatic facilities come with a lot of working parts that need to be kept running effectively. Staying on top of a wide range of maintenance requirements is essential to maintaining a safe environment for swimmers, as well as protecting your investment in your facility.
The Oklahoma City Tennis Center at Will Rogers Park recently added an award-winning tennis structure housing six regulation courts. The new building brings the OKC Tennis Center to 36 total courts.
