National parks contribute more than 270, 000 jobs outside of the National Park Service like lodging, food and beverage services, and recreation and entertainment.

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Scientific drama is an age old cultural form of entertainment, recreation and social interaction.

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They tend to be concentrated in four industries: wholesale trade (20%), finance and insurance (12%), transportation and warehousing (11%) and arts, entertainment and recreation (10%).

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Transportation and warehousing, wholesale trade, accommodation and food services, and arts, entertainment and recreation round out the list of the six unhappiest industries to work in.

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It is a discretionary entertainment business competing for fan viewership, ticket sales, and other revenue streams with other sports, movies, HBO, video games, outdoor recreation, Walt Disney World and every other form of entertainment.

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More than half of those polled (64 percent) said they have a conversation about food and dining on a daily basis, followed by media and entertainment (63 percent), beverages (57 percent), sports, recreation and hobbies (50 percent), and technology (48 percent).

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Entertainment industries, such as the motion picture industry listed above and other amusement and recreation-related industries such as golf courses, bowling alleys, and art galleries are still declining in revenue or seeing very slow growth (less than 1%) this year.

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