Vol. XXIII, No. 3, March 2023
- Editor's corner
- 2023 forecast for the attractions industry
- Esports isn't living up to its hype
- The weekday daytime leisure economy
- How the young adult market will shift
- Pistachio is a recent flavor trend
- For young adults, owning a VR headset is as rare today as it was in 2018
- Have we returned to pre-pandemic normalcy?
- Long waits reduce revenues and profits
- Store vacancies open opportunities
- Covid-related popularity of pickleball may be faltering
- Why LBE models need to be different today
- Competitive socializing with soccer
- It's all about perceived value, not just price
- Births down not totally bad news
- Announcing Agritourism Today
- Surge pricing comes to bowling
Editor's corner
This issue may set a record for us with 16 individual articles. But don't worry; most are short.
One article discusses whether we've returned to pre-pandemic normalcy. As a company, we feel like we have, as we've become very busy with a large number of projects with many new clients, including some international ones if you consider two new clients in Canada as international. I do need my passport to get in and out of there.
One of our Canadian clients is an agritourism farm with a farm market and festival grounds. I was blown away by what they were doing with food and beverages, not only at the farm market but with seasonal crop-themed food and drink during their different festivals. They have a culinary team executing at a level I've seen few location-based entertainment venues (LBEs) achieve. LBEs, watch out; agritourism is slowly eating into your market.
As you will read in one of our articles, the good news is that a large consulting/design firm in the attractions industry, PGAV, forecasts that U.S. attraction visitation in 2023 will be 7% higher than in pre-pandemic 2019.
Rather than give you a preview of the other 15 articles, I'll let you just dig in and enjoy them, hopefully learning some things you can apply to your location-based leisure business.
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Vol. XXIII, No. 3, March 2023
- Editor's corner
- 2023 forecast for the attractions industry
- Esports isn't living up to its hype
- The weekday daytime leisure economy
- How the young adult market will shift
- Pistachio is a recent flavor trend
- For young adults, owning a VR headset is as rare today as it was in 2018
- Have we returned to pre-pandemic normalcy?
- Long waits reduce revenues and profits
- Store vacancies open opportunities
- Covid-related popularity of pickleball may be faltering
- Why LBE models need to be different today
- Competitive socializing with soccer
- It's all about perceived value, not just price
- Births down not totally bad news
- Announcing Agritourism Today
- Surge pricing comes to bowling
