Leisure service professionals usually plan and direct programs involving large numbers of staff, volunteers, and program participants. You will be prepared to coordinate, supervise, assess, plan, and make budgets, as you manage people and facilities. In private industries such as resorts and tours, facility design, or equipment and marketing, managers earn salaries which depend on sales. Other jobs involve long hours alternating with off duty periods. Job independence is greater than average with freedom to plan programs and schedule facilities within set guidelines.
Administrators often set their own hours and develop office systems.
You also may become a Certified Leisure Professional through professional organizations by testing. This new course offering is in keeping with the department's effort to expand the Recreation Management contentration, with the eventual goal of adding a third concentration in Tourism Management. Return to the Brockport homepage. Updated on May 17 th , 2000. This is an official page.