Sustainable Development and Leisure
Services: Changes and Trends
Adrian Lubowiecki-Vikuk, Bojan M. Ðerˇ can,
and Bruno Miguel Barbosa de Sousa
1 Introduction
Leisure is a phenomenon that moves millions of people around the world and is one
of the main drivers of a global economy. Every year, due to frequent changes in the
leisure and tourism environment, leisure fosters competition between and within
destinations, making it increasingly a multifaceted and geographically complex
activity, where different services are requested and provided at different stages, from
origin to destination (Ferreira and Sousa 2020; Sousa and Silva 2019). Leisure activities aimed at engaging various social milieus in creative and active forms—such as
(amateur) sport, broadly defined recreation (physical/motor, creative, cultural, and
social activities and entertainment) or active tourism—serve the collective improvement of the social, cultural, environmental and economic quality of life in society
(e.g. Aguiar and Hurst 2007; Davidson and Stebbins 2011; Horolets et al. 2019;
Katsoni and Segarra-Oña 2019; Majdak 2019; McCullough et al. 2016; Niezgoda
2017; Roberts 2011; Romão 2018; Saufi et al. 2017; Stankov et al. 2019; Zamelska
and Kaczor 2019). Despite numerous benefits of participating in leisure, especially
health-related ones (Kim et al. 2014), some people do not have the opportunity to
enjoy it in a satisfactory manner (Dattilo et al. 2019). The United Nation’s SDGs
A. Lubowiecki-Vikuk (B)
Department of Consumer Behavior Research, Institute of Management, SGH Warsaw School of
Economics, Al. Niepodległo´ sci 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: alubow@sgh.waw.pl
B. M. Ðerˇ can
Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of
Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovi´ ca 3, 21 000 Novi Sad, Serbia
e-mail: bojan.djercan@dgt.uns.ac.rs
B. M. B. de Sousa
CiTUR and UNIAG Research Member, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Campus do
Instituto Politécnico, 4750-810 Barcelos, Portugal
e-mail: bsousa@ipca.pt
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer
Nature Switzerland AG 2021
A. Lubowiecki-Vikuk et al. (eds.), Handbook of Sustainable Development and Leisure
Services, World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59820-4_1
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Services: Changes and Trends
Adrian Lubowiecki-Vikuk, Bojan M. Ðerˇ can,
and Bruno Miguel Barbosa de Sousa
1 Introduction
Leisure is a phenomenon that moves millions of people around the world and is one
of the main drivers of a global economy. Every year, due to frequent changes in the
leisure and tourism environment, leisure fosters competition between and within
destinations, making it increasingly a multifaceted and geographically complex
activity, where different services are requested and provided at different stages, from
origin to destination (Ferreira and Sousa 2020; Sousa and Silva 2019). Leisure activities aimed at engaging various social milieus in creative and active forms—such as
(amateur) sport, broadly defined recreation (physical/motor, creative, cultural, and
social activities and entertainment) or active tourism—serve the collective improvement of the social, cultural, environmental and economic quality of life in society
(e.g. Aguiar and Hurst 2007; Davidson and Stebbins 2011; Horolets et al. 2019;
Katsoni and Segarra-Oña 2019; Majdak 2019; McCullough et al. 2016; Niezgoda
2017; Roberts 2011; Romão 2018; Saufi et al. 2017; Stankov et al. 2019; Zamelska
and Kaczor 2019). Despite numerous benefits of participating in leisure, especially
health-related ones (Kim et al. 2014), some people do not have the opportunity to
enjoy it in a satisfactory manner (Dattilo et al. 2019). The United Nation’s SDGs
A. Lubowiecki-Vikuk (B)
Department of Consumer Behavior Research, Institute of Management, SGH Warsaw School of
Economics, Al. Niepodległo´ sci 162, 02-554 Warsaw, Poland
e-mail: alubow@sgh.waw.pl
B. M. Ðerˇ can
Department of Geography, Tourism and Hotel Management, Faculty of Sciences, University of
Novi Sad, Trg Dositeja Obradovi´ ca 3, 21 000 Novi Sad, Serbia
e-mail: bojan.djercan@dgt.uns.ac.rs
B. M. B. de Sousa
CiTUR and UNIAG Research Member, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Campus do
Instituto Politécnico, 4750-810 Barcelos, Portugal
e-mail: bsousa@ipca.pt
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer
Nature Switzerland AG 2021
A. Lubowiecki-Vikuk et al. (eds.), Handbook of Sustainable Development and Leisure
Services, World Sustainability Series, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59820-4_1
1