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This segment of the industry includes professional sports, as well as establishments providing sports facilities and services to amateurs. Commercial sports clubs operate professional and amateur athletic clubs and promote athletic events. All kinds of popular sports can be found in these establishments, including baseball, basketball, boxing, football, ice hockey, soccer, wrestling, and even auto racing.
Professional and amateur companies involved with sports promotion also are part of this industry segment, as are sports establishments in which gambling is allowed, such as dog and horse racetracks and jai alai courts.
A variety of businesses and groups involved in live theatrical and musical performances are included in this segment. Theatrical production companies, for example, coordinate all aspects of producing a play or theater event, including employing actors and actresses, costume designers, and lighting and stage crews who handle the technical aspects of productions.
Also included are agents and managers, who represent actors and entertainers and assist them in finding jobs or engagements. Booking agencies line up performance engagements for theatrical groups and entertainers.
Performers of live musical entertainment include popular music artists, dance bands, orchestras, jazz musicians, and rock-and-roll bands. Orchestras range from major professional orchestras with million dollar budgets to community orchestras, often with part-time schedules.
The performing arts segment also includes dance companies, which produce all types of live theatrical dances. The majority of these dance troupes perform ballet, folk dance, or modern dance.
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As leisure time and personal incomes have grown across the the world, so has the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry. This industry includes more than 108,000 establishments in the United States, ranging from art museums to fitness centers.
Practically any activity that occupies a person's leisure time, excluding the viewing of motion pictures and videotape rentals, is part of the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry.
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Privately owned museums, zoos, botanical gardens, nature parks, and historical sites make up this segment of the industry; publicly owned facilities are part of the government sector.
Each institution in this segment engages in the preservation and exhibition of objects, sites, and natural wonders with historical, cultural, or educational value.
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A variety of establishments provide amusement for a growing number of customers. Some of these businesses provide video game, pinball, and gaming machines for the public at amusement parks, arcades, and casinos.
Casinos and other gaming establishments offering off-track betting are a rapidly growing part of this industry segment.
This segment also includes amusement and theme parks, which range in size from local carnivals to multiacre parks. These establishments may have mechanical rides, shows, and refreshment stands.
Other recreation and leisure-time services include golf, skating rinks, ski lifts, marinas, day camps, fireworks display services, gocart rentals, rodeos, riding stables, waterslides, and establishments offering rental sporting goods.
This segment of the industry also includes physical fitness facilities that feature exercise and weight loss programs, gyms, health clubs, and day spas. These establishments also frequently offer aerobic dance, yoga, and exercise classes.
Other recreation and leisure-time businesses include bowling centers that rent lanes and equipment for tenpin, duckpin, or candlepin bowling.
These facilities may be open to the public or available on a membership basis. Sports and recreation clubs open only to members and their guests include some golf courses and country clubs, and yacht, tennis, racquetball, hunting and fishing, and gun clubs.
Public golf courses and marinas, unlike private clubs, offer facilities to the general public on a fee basis.
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