Interesting Trend Scans

During our trendscanning activity, we often come across interesting scans, overviews or summaries prepared by other authors. This blog is simply a growing list of links that we have enjoyed, for your reference:

• Monteith-Brown Planning Consultants, 'Trends in Parks and Recreation' (2008 PRO Educational Forum and Trade Show) - http://spra.sk.ca/images/stories/AdvocacyResearch/trendsinparks.pdf
• David Touve and Steven Tepper, 'Leisure in American: Searching for the forest amongst the trees' (Cultural Organizations and Changing Leisure Trends) - http://www.getty.edu/leadership/compleat_leader/downloads/leisure_in_america.pdf
• Randy White, CEO of the White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group publishes a interesting Leisure eNews for the leisure industries - to subscribe: http://www.whitehutchinson.com/subscribe/lenews/
• The British Columbia Recreation and Parks Association conducted a trend scan as part of its own strategic planning process: http://www.bcrpa.bc.ca/about_bcrpa/documents/Trends.pdf