Paper 11: Special Interest Tourism

Module 37: Recreational Attractions: Theme Parks, Courses, And Casinos Historical Development of Tourism and Hospitality in the World

THE DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Principal Investigator Prof. S. P. Bansal Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi University, Rewari

Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Prashant K. Gautam Director, UIHTM, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Paper Coordinator Prof. Deepak Raj Gupta School of Hospitality & Tourism Management (SHTM), Jammu University

Content Writer Dr Arunesh Parashar Chief Coordinator, Dept of Tourism Management, Dev Sanskriti University. Central University of Jammu, Jammu

Content Reviewer Prof. Pariskhit Manhas Director , School of Hospitality & Tourism Management , Jammu university, Jammu

ITEMS DESCRIPTION OF MODULE Subject Name Tourism and Hospitality Paper Name Special Interest Tourism Module Title Recreational Attractions: Theme Parks, Golf Courses, Casinos

Module Id Module No. 37

Pre- Requisites To understand the basic concepts of amusements parks and malls

Objectives To study the meaning and concept of Theme Parks, Golf Courses,

Casinos

Keywords Theme parks, casinos, golf’s grounds

QUADRANT-I

Amusement Parks and Theme Parks Introduction

 A theme park or an amusement park is an area with attraction crated from rides, like roller liners and water rides. The name itself demonstrates the significance, which means 'place

wherever we've diverted, they ordinarily contain a variety rides.  An amusement park (sometimes remarked as a funfair) or theme park is a medium of diversion attractions, rides, and alternative event during a location for the enjoyment of enormous numbers of people.  A theme park has arranging, structures, and attractions that square measure supported one or additional specific topics or stories.  They were set in medieval Europe within the sixteenth century and had live excursion areas, diversion, firecrackers, moving amusements and rides. Chicago within the 1890's is thought to be the origin of the primary funfair. The event congregations were fictional by George C. Tilyou, an awesome business person.

Events Spectators

 Adults use their inventive vitality broadly when at pay. Through the development of imagine dreams, Youths can make tracks in an opposite direction from their dependent and independent part as children into a universe of creative energy to wind up observably free-willed, self- governing individuals owning a sentiment societal status and note worthiness.

Amusement Park

 Themed amusement park square measure three-dimensional dream settings within which each kid and adult square measure actively flooded into dream environment animated by writing, films, and TV.

 They need their roots within the funfair that has long been a middle of dynamic play wherever youngsters and grown-ups alike will divert themselves from their ordinary day by day administration and include themselves in direct play, excite, and challenge. Never the less, even in charming parks, wherever adults and kids alike will participate in dynamic play, folks square measure additional possible to take an interest inactively as witnesses, observant their youngsters at play.

 The pleasure ground differs from the funfair in this its kind and performance embrace the kid hood exercises of pretending that attractiveness to youngsters further on the internal identity of adults. Therefore, the idea of the amusement park is conceived, partially, from the universal wants of kid and thusly the child among adults to flee into their creative abilities and faux to be a neighborhood of homesick, intriguing, or dream setting.

 The term them park originated with amusement park, that opened in urban center, California, in 1955 because the 1st generally recognized amusement park has long reigned because the model of all trendy theme parks. Its distinctive themed settings and attractions made a shift within the style if parks that followed, several of that placed the most extreme amount of stress on their themed surroundings to stop people for attractions.

Designing Amusement Stop

 Dewing on his experience in film and TV creation, Disney searched for approaches to interpret the amusement that was experienced on a motion picture or TV screen into a physical setting that could be experienced totally by film enthusiasts. To do this, he swung to the workmanship

executives and illustrators of his film studio for help with outlining his dream.

 The Disney thought the idea of sorting out attractions inside a progression of noteworthy dramatic settings. All components of these themed conditions would work in amicability, including the design, arranging, attractions, ensembles, and even sounds. The goal was that patrons might virtually step into the scenes and become a community of the show.

 When it opened, amusement park enclosed 5 distinct themed settings: Main Street, USA; Adventure land; Frontier land; Fantasy land: and tomorrow land. Youngsters visiting the recreation center for the primary time were already conversant in these settings as an outcome of they were ordinarily delineate on tv and in film. For grown-ups, the settings worked as striking indications of their own childhood. Therefore, guests to amusement park found the recreation center conditions instantly acquainted and soothing.

 For youngsters visiting Disneyland, the littler than-life scale promoted a way of importance, creating them feel bigger in reference to their surroundings.

Walt Disney World Resort

 Today the most exceptional collection of diversion stops inside one geographic district can be found at the Walt Disney World resort in central Florida. As the main Disneyland stop irritates the inevitable destiny of fairs, the Walt Disney World Resort has changed unwinding time objectives.

 Today the Walt Disney World resort is a forty- three-square-mile unwinding complex that is home four diversion stops and likewise different resort lodgings; entertainment, retail, and

Occasion gathering

 Walt Disney World’s Magic Land in Florida is the most pleasure stop inn the world and Woman Palace, the activity focus image, is a champion among the most caught structures in the

 contemplate mountain at Canada’s Land  Wild West Falls at film maker Bros. Film World in Australian state  Stunt Fall at parquet Warner Madrid, Madrid, Spain  Roller coasters Dragon Khan and Shambhala Within Left adventure near Barcelona, Spain, one of the greatest festivals in Europe with more than 3 million visitors for consistently

Exhalation Plots, built up in 1661 as one of the first pleasure gardens The second event was the pleasure develop. A standout amongst the most reliable nurseries was the breath Grands, set up in 1661 in Landon. By the late eighteen century, the site had an affirmation charge for its various attractions. It routinely drew huge gathering, with its ways being noted for unhappy meet; rope walkers, hot air swell risings, shows and fireworks giving thought. Despite the way that the yard nurseries were at first expected for the elites, hey soon advanced toward getting to be spots of great social varying qualities. Public firework displays were put on at Marylebone Gardens, and Cremona Gardens offered music, moving and animal trapeze imaginativeness displays.

Prater in Vienna, Austria, was opened in 1766. The possibility of a settled stop for beguilement was moreover made with the begin of the world’s fairs. The first world fair began in 1851 with the improvement of the landmark Crystal Palace in London, England. The thought driving the organization was ton laud the modern achievement of the nations of the world and it was proposed to instruct and connect with the visitor.

The original Ferris wheel, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893 American urban group and business similarly watched the world’s sensible as a strategy for displaying budgetary and mechanical success. The world’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago, Illinois was an early forerunner to the front line excitement mecca. The sensible was an encased site that consolidated entrainment, outlining and preparing o draw in the masses. It left to overpower the visitors, and successfully did in that capacity with an impact of lights from the “White City”. To guarantee that the sensible was a fiscal accomplishment, the coordinator consolidated a gave amuse concessions run called the Midway Pleasance. Rides from this sensible got the imaginative vitality of the visitors and of stimulation meccas around the world, for instance, the prater by 1896. in like manner, the experiences of the encased flawless city with consider, ride, culture and propel (control), relied on upon the development of a whimsical place.

Black pool and Coney Island

Guideline article: Trolley stop The present day fair progressed from before coastline charm resort that had ended up being notable with the all-inclusive community for day-outing or end of the week events in Black pool, United Kingdom and Coney Island, united states.

Diverse sorts of enjoyment park Enlightening point parks The chronicled theme park Pay du Foe in France won the 2014 Applause Award from the IAAPA. A couple parks use rides and attractions for enlighten purposes. Disney was the first to successfully open a far reaching scale diversion stop worked around preparing. Named Epcot, it opened in 1982 as the second stop in the Walt Disney World Resort. There are also holy land USA and the Holy Land Experience, which are entertainment meccas attempted to persuade Christian piety. Dinosaur World entertains families with dinosaurs in basic settings, while the sea World and Busch Garden parks moreover offer informational experiences, with each of the parks stopping a couple of thousand animals, edge and other sea life in numerous attractions and shows focusing on animal educations. Made in 1977, the Puy du Fou is a liberally complicated entertainment stop in Vendee, France. It is rotated around European, French and closed-by history; it got a couple of all- inclusive prizes.

Family- asserted point parks Restrict gage mining train going through Calico Ghost Town Some carnivals developed from more standard occasion assemblage endeavors, such as Knott’s Berry Farm. In the 1920’s Walter Knott and his family sold berries from a roadside stand, which created to join a resort sevind seared chicken dinners. Inside a few years, lines outside the restraunt were habitually a couple of hours long. To draw in the holding up gathering, Walter Knott made a Ghost Town in 1940, using structures relocated from certifiable old west towns, for instance, the Calico, California ghost town and Prescott, Arizona.

Regional Parks The primary neighborhood stimulation mecca, and furthermore the first Six Flags Park, Six Flags over Texas was legitimately opened in 1961 in Arlington, Texas. The beginning Six Flags fair was the vision of Angus Wynne, Jr. likewise, made the front line, centered diversion mecca industry. In the late 1950’s, Wynne4 visited Disneyland and was excited to make a direct, closer, and greater occasion assemblage that would be stacked with dream. He followed in the methods for Disney and had subdivisions inside the entertainment focus that reflected various grounds. The subdivision consolidated the Old South and diverse portions that Wynne’s background. By 1968, the second Six flags park, Six Flags over Georgia, Opened, and in 1971, Six Flags Over Mid-America (now Six Flags St. Louis) opened near St. Louis Missouri. Also in 1971 was the Magic Kingdom (1971), Epoct(1982), Disney’s Hollywood studios (1989) and Disney’s Animate Kingdom (1998).

Golf and Casinos  Golf, game of hitting a small hard ball with specially made clubs over an outdoor course

sometimes (particularly if it is near the coast) called a .  The objects is to deposit the ball in a specified number of cups, or holes, using as few strokes as possible. Although golf’s place of origin is uncertain. has the strongest claim. As early as 1457 it was banned there as a threat to archery practice, which was considered vital to national defense?  The Royal and ancient of St. Andrews, Scotland (founded 1754), is the international shrine of golf, and the club’s basic rules are the worldwide standards.

Rules and Equipment  the standard course, usually more than 6000 yd (about 5,500m) in length, consists of 18 consecutively numbered “holes” (the playing areas leading to the cups).  The cup measures 4.5 in.(11.43cm) in diameter and is set into a smooth of closely cropped grass, called a green.  Golfers being play by driving the ball toward the hole from the , a slightly elevated rectangular area.  Between the tee and the green lies the fairway, often bounded by tall grass (the rough) and trees, and containing natural or constructed obstacles (hazards), such as small lakes or streams, sand pits (bunkers), and mounds.  Fairways vary in the length from 100 to 650yd (90-600m). two basic principles underlie nearly all the rules: first, players must play the course as they find it and, second, they must play only their own ball, and not touch it (except to hit it with a club) until play is complicated on the hole.  These principles ensure challenging conditions, demanding skilled shot making and imposing penalties for the loss of one’s ball.

The rules have varied, but changes in equipment have been dramatic over time. In golfs earliest days, the ball was made of feathers stuffed tightly in to a leather bag and struck with wooden-shafted clubs. Today balls are of composite materials and can be hit in excess of 300 yds (274 m).  A complete set of golf clubs once comprised 3 or 4 woods, used for long drives; 10 irons (numbered upward as the angle of the club face provided increased loft), used for intermediate and shorts; and a putter, used for rolling the ball across the green.  Golfers may carry no more than 14 clubs in their bags, they can now select from 15 different woods, some now made of non-wood materials, from a range of clubs that combine irons they are designed to replace, and specialized wedges for sand play and for pitching the ball at varying degrees of loft, which complement the standard irons.

From the National Geographic book, The 10 Best of Everything

Pine Valley Golf Club Clementon, New Jersey Crump/Colt (1918), 70 – 6,765 yards pin valley is somewhat mysterious in golfing circles because it is hard to find and extremely private. Those who have found the club located in New Jersey’s lonesome Pine Barrens say the course is one of the world's finest. The founders started the club in 1913, with the purchase of 184 acres (75 hectares) of scruffy pinelands. The later addition of 416 acres (168 hectares) of picturesque virgin woodlands enhanced the remote beauty of the place.

Cypress Point Club Pebble Beach, California Mackenzie (1929), Par 72 – 6,536 yards The late great duffer Bob Hope once quipped that during a membership at this exclusive club, they drove away 20 members. Cypress point is indeed a private place, which explains way you won't see casual players chipping away on the pacific coastline. Located south of pebble beach in California’s gorgeous Big Sur country, the club has an 18-hole course of rolling fairways. Dr. Alistair Mackenzie, architect of Augusta National Golf Club (number 8 in this list) designed Cypress also.

Muirfield Village Golf Club Gullane, Scotland, United Kingdom T. Morris (1889), par 71-7,221 yards Home to the world's oldest golfing society, opened in 1744, More than 200 years later, won his first British Open here on the storied greens near Edinburgh. Most golfers consider muirfield to be a particularly demanding test of ability.

St. Andrews (Old Course) St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom Par 72-7,279 yards Any golfer worth his or her weight in golf clubs wants to play the old course at st. Andrews. The most famous one in the world. Golf has been played on this heathery patch of land on scotland's east coast since the 15th century. In addition to the old course, there are four more excellent 18-hole courses, one 9-hole course, and a practice center to accommodate golfers of all skill levels. All are public, but reservation is a must. The old course is embedded in the stormy north sea dunes and is challenging to even the best of golfers. For people who aren't even pretending to be , course is ideal. The nine-hole balgove is best for children and beginners.

Pebble Links Pebble Beach, California Neville/Grant (1919), par 72-6,737 yards may be the best known course in the united states.as you work your way over the narrow fairways, make sure you pause to drink in the outstanding views of the rocky shores that make up this part of California’s pacific coast. There's an especially good vista at the 18th hale, a 548 yards par 5. Since the wind can be a big factor here, be sure to slect to proper club if you want to score well.

Royal Melbourne Golf Club Melbourne, Austrelia Mackenzie/Russell (1926), par 72-6,598 yards (East) and 6,589 yards (West) located in eastern Australia, this lovely private club has two 18-hole courses, East and west for tournaments and special members' events, the club forms the composite course of 12 holes from the east and 6 from the east, this first was created in 1959 when royal Melbourne was the site of the Canada cup, now called the .

Shinnecock Hills Golf Club Southampton, New York Toomey/flynn (1931), par 70-6,996 yards Shinnecock hills boast a few notable firsts. It has the first clubhouse in the united stated, built in 1893 from a design by Stanford whit. It was also the first club that admitted women as members. The rolling terrain of long island's south shore gives the course plenty of variety. And winds off the Atlantic Ocean can make playing this private course quite challenging.

Augusta National Golf Club Augustra, Georgia Macknzie/Jones (1932), par 72-6,905 yards Each spring, the venerable club in central in central Georgia is the site of the masters, maybe the most revered tournament in the United States. Hot-pink azaleas bloom near the championship 18-hole and 9- hole courses. There of the sports toughest and most famous holes are here: the 11th 12th and 13th holes together are known as "Amen Corner." Winners are easy to spot, because they are given special green blazers.

Pinehurst Country Club pinehurst, North Carolina D.Ross (1903-35), PAR 72–7051 yards

Established in 1894 in the sand Hills region of North Carolina, Pinehurst has eight outstanding courses and more holes than any other resort. Course No. 1 is most scenic and picturesque in terms of design. However, all the courses have tree-lined fairways and numerous bunkers. won the U.S. Open here with dramatic 15-foot putt at the 18th hole. Sadly, it was his last major tournament: he died in an airplane crash that fall.

Royal Country down Golf Club NewCastle, N.Ireland,United Kingdom T.Morris (1889) Dunn/Vardon . Par 72–6968yards The more than 100-year-old Royal Country down Golf Club has two 18-hole courses: The Championship and the less formidable Annesley. Located about 30miles (48 Kilometers) south of championship and the less than formidable Amnesty. Located about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Belfast and 90 miles (145kilometers) from Dublin. The club is stunningly set between the mountains of Mourn and the Irish Sea. However, it is as tough a place to play as it is beautiful to see. The fairways are lines with masses of native plants such as heather and gorse. Wild tussocks cover the bunkers. And the wind off sea can add to the tension.

Best 10 largest Indian Casinos

While betting has turned into a decent recreation time movement for travelers in india, the Goverment of India has energized authorized and rumored club at couple of appeal visitor areas in the nation. Here is a rundown of Top 10 Largest Casinos.

1. Winners Casino and Hacienda de Ora Victors Casino is situated in Hacienda de Ora and has 150 gambling club apace machines, video and poker amusements. It is a standout amongst the most famous vacationer goals in Goa.

2. Deltin Riyale Casino Delton Royale Casino is India’s second biggest clubhouse resort in Daman, spread more than 10 sections of land with 60000 square feet gaming space. Claimed by Delta Corp, the organization trusts that the gambling club is deliberately situated from Mumbai and from Gujarat and is additionally known to be a gamer’s heaven.

3. Deltin Jaqk The much observed Deltin Jaqk has a choice of 3502 diverse gaming positions including 3-card poker, Roulette, Backart Ander-Bahar, that guarantees the visistors an additional standard gaming background.

4.Casino Carnival Situated in Goa, this club is spread crosswise over likewise has sparkling exhibitions by acclaimed nearby craftsmen and additionally global entertainers.

5. Casino Pride Otherwise called the games enchant, Casino Pride offers leaving gaming encounters to more than 500 visitors at any given moment. The gambling club 30000sq. Ft vessel floating on the waters of Mondovi stream given an incredible ordeal for the gamers.

6. Casino Pearl The biggest gambling club in Douth Goa, Casino Pearl has leaving Diversions like Tai-Sai, Black Jack, Roulette, Baccarat and space machine. Clubhouse pearl is just 15 minutes from Goa International Airport and is a standout amongst the most supported decision for some voyagers.

7. Casino Palms An in-house gambling club at the Luxurious La Calypso inn, Goa, Casino Palms is the most distressing clubhouse to invest some quality energy with family at the shoreline and furthermore have a live gaming background at the clubhouse.

8. Casino Paradise One of the biggest and the rich of all gambling clubs in Goa, this 5000sq. Ft clubhouse is outlined and improved for an exceptional gaming knowledge. Gambling club paradise is a piece of the lavish Neo Majestic, a prevalent one in the realm of Casino inns in Goa.

9. Dune-The Casino Situated in the Resort zury white sand in Goa, the casino has broad gaming determinations on the territory space going from rouletee, dark jack, small scale flush rummy and others.

10. Chances Casino A trailblazer for inland gambling clubs in goa, Chances Casino is a piece of a five star boutique inn in Panjim,Goa. Prominent for offering costmary gaming under a super labish and come passing, chances Casino helps vacationers feel restore amid the remain.