Importance of Commercial Recreation
  This assignment is designed to challenge you to think of what it exactly is that you are doing. What is the significance of commercial recreation to society? Why on earth would someone major in it, and why would anyone outside of the major care? There are numerous reasons that relate to the emotional, sentimental and economic benefits or commercial recreation, conventions, events, hospitality and tourism. In this paper you will explore and articulate some of those.
     
  * Commercial recreation in the broadest sense incorporates much more than hospitality. We've looked at several different sub-sections of the field, and you can even apply commercial recreation concepts to tourist/local attractions like aquariums, museums and mega-malls. Even something like the California State Capitol building becomes a tourist attraction with the appropriate target market. But how do you justify it? 
Research an area of commercial recreation of interest to you and provide solid justification for this field of study. You can look at it from an industry perspective (events, hospitality, tourism, etc.) or from a thematic perspective (urban renewal, location-marketing, economic benefits, psychological benefits, symbolism, etc.). Your paper can be more concrete indicating how much money we get or how many jobs are created from certain commercial recreation sectors. Or it can be more conceptual, indicating the improved local culture and entertainment options by finding articles that talk about increases in the number of venues.
     
  * You should reference at least 2 sources.  For this type of paper, you'll find newspapers and magazines to be helpful as you are dealing with a current problem. You might also find books on a specific area(s) of the industry that you are looking at. These may give you a bit of history and some important facts. Sources such as Wikipedia, etc., are not appropriate sources for this assignment.

You should prove that you have taken knowledge gained in this course and that you have extended that knowledge base by researching somewhat further into the given area. 

The length requirement is at least 600 words of actual text (two pages), not including titles, reference lists, etc. and the paper should be formatted in the manner described in the syllabus, using correct APA style citations. (This is a very short paper. Make a good, quick summary of what you're discussing - it's not meant to be a long, drawn out assignment.)