Academy of Leisure Sciences
White Papers on Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism


The Academy of Leisure Sciences has published a series of "White Papers" on important current leisure-related issues. To enable you to read and download them without scrolling through the entire set of documents, each can be found in its own separate page:

The papers were developed in an effort to communicate with the public about diverse issues concerning leisure which might be of general interest. Each paper has been drafted by individual academy members, critiqued by the membership as a whole, and subsequently revised. The papers may be quoted for any legitimate journalistic purpose as long as authorship is attributed to the Academy of Leisure Sciences.

For further information on individual issue papers, please contact the Academy members listed at the end of each paper.

For more information about the process by which these papers were developed, contact Dr. Geoffrey Godbey, Professor, Leisure Studies, Penn State University, University Park, PA; Phone (814) 865-1851, FAX (814) 863-4257.