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The Recreational Sports Journal is the scholarly, peer-reviewed publication of the NIRSA Foundation. Its purpose is to provide a source of empirical, theoretical, and applied research to the field of recreational sports. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Comparison of the Development of Character and Skills between Club and Varsity Athletes by Zachary Beldon, Joseph T. Walker, and John Collins.

Leisure Sciences presents scientific inquiries into the study of leisure, recreation, parks, travel, and tourism from a social science perspective. Articles cover the social and psychological aspects of leisure, planning for leisure environments, leisure gerontology, travel and tourism behavior, leisure economics, and urban leisure delivery systems.

This journal publishes high-quality papers on the sociology of leisure that have a global interest, promote the development of this mature field within international sociology, and go beyond the traditional geographical areas of leisure studies. The sociology of leisure is about the social institution of leisure and its activities being pursued in free time or time away from disagreeable obligations.