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Abstract
The local leisure industry can lead to local economic development and that this effect is desirable. To the extent that this research examined how this effect is achieved in a variety of local communities across the world. The research shows that leisure can make to the local community through local services, installations, and equipment. That is, there is more to be gained in providing these advantages than economic development. It is an enhanced sense of positiveness about life developed in the local population. This sense is largely, though not exclusively, acquired through leisure activities. This research is about such positiveness, and therefore why the provision of leisure services, facilities, and equipment has additional importance beyond that of economic development. These leisure services, facilities, and items of equipment are often only available for a price. Thus, when purchased, their sales contribute to the local economy. But at the same time, such transactions facilitate positiveness in the buyers, for they make possible the buyers’ pursuit of certain worthwhile activities. This suggests that the value of the local leisure industry cannot be calculated solely in monetary terms. Rather it must also be looked on as an important path to the development of community well-being and quality of life.