This quarterly, refereed journal publishes high quality articles and book reviews to inform and stimulate discussions relevant to leisure management. It is designed to appeal to anyone with a serious interest in contemporary leisure management issues, including academics, practising managers, consultants, politicians and students. To this end it is characterised by clearly written, plain English and is accessible to those without specialist management knowledge.

The scope of leisure management covered by this journal is broad and in concept includes:

• arts, media, countryside, heritage, hospitality, sport, tourism
• visitor management, human resource management, facility/amenity management, event management, quality management
• interdisciplinary studies, together with a wide range of disciplinary approaches, including finance, marketing, economics, law, planning, policy, research, geography, sociology, psychology and environmental studies
• public, commercial, voluntary, charitable and industrial provision/management
• local, regional, national and international management perspectives

One of the key objectives of the journal is to provide a high level forum for communication between academics and practitioners. To this purpose the journal is endorsed by the Institute of Sport, Parks and Leisure, whilst retaining independence of content and policy, The journal aims to be contemporary, integrated and relevant to practitioner training. Contributions are welcome and expected from both academics and practitioners throughout the international leisure management community.

Peer Review Statement

All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening, followed by double-blind, anonymized refereeing by two referees, plus refereeing by the journal' editor in cases where the two referees disagree.

All book review papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening by a designated book reviews editor.