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◎ Different Types of Clubs and Theme Parks and their Service Offerings

Theme Park

We will introduce variouse theme parks focusing on different theme like hisotry, geographic or attraction.

1. Legoland Park

Legoland Park mainly provides the hotal service and machine game. The selling point is that there are tons of things made by Lego inside the park. Therefore, it is suitable for the Lego fans to visit.

Ref: Legoland Park retrieved from http://legoland.com/

2) Universal Studio Hollywood

Universal Studio mainly offers customer the hotel service and amusing facilities like the machine game and shows. The selling point is that there are many decorations, shows and games about the movie or animation produced by Unverisal Studio like the Transformer.

Ref: Universal Studio Hollywood retrieved from http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/

3) Disneyland Park

Disneyland Park has the hotel service and the games and shows for customers. There is an element of magicial moment for customers to feel. Customers can find out many Disney cartoon characters inside this park.  

Ref: Disneyland Park retrieved from https://disneyland.disney.go.com/

4) Holy land USA

Holy Land USA is a theme park in Waterbury inspired by Bible. There are many facilities in this park like a chapel, stations of the cross, and replicas of catacombs and Israelite villages made by cinder blocks, bathtubs, and other discards.

Ref: Holy land USA retrieved from http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/04/holy-land-usa-before-after-the-abandoned-christian-theme-park/

5) Le Puy Du Fou

Le Puy Du Fou is a historical theme park in Les Epesses in the heart of theVendée region of Western France. There are many attractions like The Secret of the Lance, The Vikings, Triumph's Sign, The Phantom Birds Dance and Richelieu's Musketeers

Ref: Le Puy Du Fou retrieved from http://www.puydufou.com/

Club

There are various types of club such as counrty club and city club. We will give you the real life example of these club.

1. The Hong Kong Country Club (Country Club)

The Clubhouse is situated to take full advantage of its close proximity to the scenic shores of Deep Water Bay affording magnificent ocean views from the dining outlets and function rooms on all floors of the building. Also, members can enjoy the dinner in different dinner room and the sport games.

Ref: The Hong Kong Country Club retrieved from https://www.countryclub.hk/

2) The City Club of San Francisco (City Club)

The City Club offers members an active calendar of networking and social opportunities, preferred pricing on food and beverages, discounted membership at Equinox Fitness and reciprocal privileges at The Golden Gate Yacht Club and other exclusive private clubs.

Ref: The City Club of San Francisco retrieved from http://cityclubsf.com/

3) Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club (Yacht Club)

Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club is one of the oldest sports clubs in Hong Kong and is proud of its rich, colourful history, which stretches back over 160 years of social and competitive sailing and rowing.  The RHKYC provides sailing and rowing courses for members and non-members at various levels to nurture the development of these two core sports.

Ref: Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club retrieved from http://www.rhkyc.org.hk/

4) Chicago Athletic Clubs (Athletic Club)

Chicago Athletic Clubs provides many services like  rock climbing walls, indoor lap pools, basketball courts and dozens of conveniently scheduled group classes like Body Pump, Zumba, Kickboxing and others, included in membership. Also, it offers customers nutrition counseling, our Kids Clubs, and our highly acclaimed personal trainers.

Ref: Chicago Athletic Clubs retrieved from https://chicagoathleticclubs.com/

5) The In & Out Naval & Military Club (Military Club)

The memberes mainly come from Officers of the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines, the Army and the Royal Air Force. In recent years, the membership has expanded to include ladies and gentlemen who have not served in the Armed Forces. It usually provides the dinning room, the bar and the places for playing sport

Ref: The In & Out Naval & Military Club retrieved from http://www.navalandmilitaryclub.co.uk/ClubMembership.asp?PropertyID=2906&t=dg

◎  Gambling

Hong Kong Government does not put emphasize on the gambling industry and law and legislative aspects do not encourage citizens to have large scale of gambling activity excepted the gambling in Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Gambling is not only an economic activity but also a part of daily life of modern people. Figures from the Hong Kong Jockey Club show that for the 2005 to 2006 season, the horse racing betting turnover amounts to 60 billion (HKD) while the amount for football betting is 31.2 billion. Betting turnover for the Mark Six equals to 6.3 billion. It is estimated that Hong Kong people spent over 12 billion on football betting during the 2006 World Cup.

Major Research Findings

1) About 70% of Hong Kong people have engaged in various gambling activities.

2) There is a growing trend of more young people participating in gambling activities. About 54% of gamblers are under the age of 20.

3) About 7% of gamblers first engaged in gambling at or below the age of 12.

4) Gambling activities leading to the first engagement in gambling of Hong Kong people are, in order of priority, Mark Six (53.6%), casinos (18.3%) and horse racing (16.3%).

5) The most popular gambling activities are, in order of priority, Mark Six (78.2%), horse racing (27.8%), football betting (27.8%), casinos (9.7%).

6) About 20% of Hong Kong people involved in the football betting during the 2006 World Cup. 40% among them engaged in football betting for the first time. 15.7% bet $2,000 or above while 4.2% bet $10,000 or above.

7) Who are gamblers?

• Demographic: male, married, middle class, retired, house wife.
• Personality: believe fate can be controlled, materialistic, not influenced by peers.
• Influence from family members/ peer group: family members/ peer group are gamblers.
• View on gambling: believe gambling can make quick money, a way to socialize with friends, entertaining and relaxing activities.

8) Gamblers can be classified into three categories: (1) enjoy life conscious (12.1%), (2) social life conscious (75.6%), (3) material and money conscious (12.4%).

9) Among the student respondents, around 30% are gamblers. Of the gamblers, 42% are primary / secondary students. Mark six is the first gambling activity they get involved. 40% of the student gamblers (n = 33) engaged in this year’s World Cup Football betting. Their bets ranged from $500 to $50,000.

10) Gambling leads to the following impacts:

• Addicted to gambling and helpless.
• Betting amount is increasing.
• Psychological damages.

Recommendations

1) Government

• Promotion: to deliver anti-gambling messages.
• Education: to further encourage schools to organize anti-gambling activities for students.
• Reinforce anti-gambling laws: to enforce the law to stop youth (under 18) entering Jockey Club’s off-course betting branches.
• Strategic alliance: sponsor and support the anti-gambling organizations (e.g. Caritas A. G. Counseling Centre, Gamblers Recovery Centre).

2) Education

• To deliver anti-gambling and correct financial management messages.
• Care and concern: teachers and school social workers should pay more attention to students to prevent them from engaging in gambling activity.

3) Family

• Parents / Senior members in the family should well behave and stay away from gambling activities to act as role model.
• Pay attention to the friends of their children.
• Family members should try to help each others to quit gambling.

4) Individual

• Should be aware of the destructive impact of gambling on oneself and family.
• For youth, should carefully select friends and stay away from the gamblers.
• For retired and housewives, should broaden their social circles, participate various activities, can help them to stay away from gambling temptation.
• Have a positive value of life: Money is not everything.

Ref: A Survey on Gambling Behaviours of Hong Kong People retrieved from http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/cpr/pressrelease/060816e.htm

◎  Recent Trends and New Development in Recreation and Leisure

There is increasing concern for health consciousness in Hong Kong. People are more and more aware of health issues that they will participate in recreation and leisure activities like yoga class, body fitness .For example, more and more fitness centre providing gym facilities, yoga classes are found in Hong Kong nowadays since more people are concerned about the healthy life style.

Moreover, people like to go to public park in their leisure times. For instance, they would like to visit the nature park to see the animals and plants, which give them a space for relaxation.

Mai Po Nature Reserve

New Development

New development of leisure in Hong Kong is West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade. It is located in the headland area of the district.People cantroll along the boardwalk and find yourself surrounded on all sides by Hong Kong’s iconic waterfront scenes. A picnic on the grassy areas is dining with a million dollar view. The promenade also features with a play area, a cycling track and a jogging path that is lit at night, which is perfect for adults and children.