General Considerations on Leisure Services (original) (raw)
2009
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Abstract
The leisure is a component of standard of living and quality of life, expresses the level of material and spiritual life, without it can’t be held the multilateral development of the human, enforcing recovery functions of the organism, formative and instructive – educative, cultural and social. In pre-modern times, the free time was located on religious holidays and in the
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