he fact that people spend money to take part in their leisure and recreation activities. Whereas back in the 60s, because not many people spent their money on leisure activities there was no point in increasing the amount of leisure facilities around because in the end they would just end up losing money, so there were less facilities. So the more leisure time people have, the better it is for the industry because they benefit from the money.
             Another factor that I mentioned above was disposable income. Since the 1960s the amount of household disposable income/personal disposable income has increased immensely. This money depends on the amount of money left over after the person has paid for items of immediate necessity like, food, clothes, bills etc. The graph below shows that between 1971 and 1997 that UK household disposable income per head had nearly doubled. The reason why the amount of household disposable income has increased is because the amount that people a
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