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| Author: | Lippke, R. L. |
| Title: | Five Concerns Regarding the Commercialization of Leisure |
| Journal: | Business and Society Review
2001 : SUMMER, 106:2, p. 107-126 |
| Index terms: | LEISURE AMERICA CITIES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Anyone interested in the commercialization of leisure need look no further than Las Vegas, Nevada, to observe the phenomenon in its most developed and pure form. Las Vegas is a city intensely devoted to the delivery of commercial enjoyments of all kinds, including gambling, entertainment, shopping, food, alcohol, sex, and recreation. Visitors to the city are not only utterly dependent upon the commercial provision of goods and services, they are subtly and not so subtly encouraged to indulge themselves in a consumption binge that, temporarily at least, distracts them from the cares and concerns of everyday life. Las Vegas is perhaps the closest thing we have to Robert Nozick's fanciful experience machine, a device conceived to deliver the goods of hedonism in ways previously unimaginable. |
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