Serious leisure and serious fun
A partnership between UQ School of Tourism and adventure tourism provider Riverlife has combined serious leisure and serious fun for students undertaking the Leisure and Sports major for UQ students enrolled in Adventure Recreation and Tourism (LEIS2005) offered by the School of Tourism.
Course work includes a visit to a commercial outdoor recreation provider in Brisbane and to participate in a practical outdoor recreation activity.
“Riverlife currently represents best practice for the industry so that students can see firsthand how an adventure recreation provider can successfully operate in a turbulent business environment.” Associate Professor Ian Patterson course co-ordinator Adventure Recreation Tourism.
“The value of this practical experience for students is to help students understand the positive benefits that people receive from the outdoors such as fun, enjoyment and a sense of challenge and adventure that contributes to their self confidence and self esteem. It also instils in them a concern for the natural environment” Dr Patterson.
Mr John Sharpe, Director of Riverlife emphasised that Riverlife was “selling and providing an experience for all types of people”. He stressed that participants and their guests should go home with increased skills, fond memories, unique experiences, and to feel rejuvenated so that they will come back again as well as encouraging new people to come and try.
Riverlife Adventure Centre is a young, dynamic and fun adventure business that provides active, recreational, social, family, work and leisure related experiences all within Brisbane’s inner city and has been the recipient of major Queensland Tourism awards.