The demand for indoor recreation and sport in Wellington City

Abstract

A study was carried out to guage the strength of demand for indoor sport and recreation in a New Zealand city. A random sample was taken from Wellington residents in an attempt to determine the level of expressed desire to use indoor sports facilities and the probable level of latent demand for their provision. Results indicated that there was frustrated demand that could be traced to a lack of supply of facilities. The study also focussed on the nature of participation and the social and familial factors which would help to describe it. It was found that a greater desire existed to participate casually rather than in a pre-arranged way in indoor sport and that respondents preferred to pay for their use of facilities through a combination of user charges and rate levies than through either user charges alone or rates alone.