The arts and recreation services industry is about so much more than art galleries, public nature parks and high profile sporting contests. It includes museums, those places where objects of cultural, historical and scientific significance are preserved and exhibited. It includes botanical gardens and zoos. It includes the performing arts. The opera companies and theatre troupes, the comedians and cartoonists, and the concert halls and the music bowls. It includes the sports professionals and the venues the compete at, but also the suburban gym and bowling alley. And this division includes wagering activities. The casinos, the lotteries, and online services.
While the essence of this industry has not changed, its methods have. For there have been art galleries, parks and sporting contests for many, many decades. But the technology, the equipment, rules, and the facilities associated with activities right across this industry have changed. There is better environmental conditioning in art galleries, better toilets and signage in parks, and there are better ticketing systems and viewing options for sporting contests. And it is this type of change is what this article is about. It is about what could happen in the time ahead terms of careers and business. It is a futurist’s take on how things might pan out over the next 10 years or so.
