The road to success in the community leisure venue (CLV) industry, which includes what have been mistakenly been labeled as family entertainment centers (most entertainment oriented CLVs no longer target families) is no longer about looking down the street to see what competing CLVs are doing, but rather understanding how the consumer and their many leisure options, expectations and behaviors are changing. Competition is now all the many other options consumers now have and will shortly have for use of their leisure time and discretionary spending. In this issue we have a large number of articles that look at these issues and the disruption it is bringing to today’s CLV business models.
Hope you enjoy the reading and wishing you an enjoyable Thanksgiving season.