Preferencias recreativas de los jóvenes en sus tiempos libres

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to determine the preferences for recreational activities of young people in their free time in the city of Menongue, given the strategic projection of this municipality, to expand the offers in this key area of ​​tourism management. The study included 385 young people from the most central neighborhoods of the city. A structured interview was applied composed of three demographic variables and four thematic block variables: preferences, possibilities, establishments and limitations. The field work to collect the information was carried out by second-year students of the tourism management program at the Universidade Cuito Cuanavale. The information resulting from the field work was coded, tabulated and then processed in the IMB SPSS Statistic 29.0.2.0 software, and included frequency analysis, cross-tabulation and chi-square analysis. The main results are an orientation focused on four essential groups of recreational preferences: sports, cultural, learning, and entertainment and adventure. A wide diversity of activities predominates within each group of preferences, with a reduced possibility of carrying them out in the locality, due to the lack of establishments, conditions and trained personnel to teach them, fundamentally for those related to cultural and learning manifestations, identifying as an opportunity to expand the recreational offer of tourist establishments and entrepreneurs, take advantage of the attendance of young people in public spaces to practice sports, games and talk with friends.