Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community, Rev. 2.1 (NACE Rev. 2.1) - Section S

This section includes a wide range of activities to meet varied cultural, sports and recreational interests of their customers, including live performances, entertainment, the operation of cultural and natural heritage sites, and gambling.

This division includes arts creation and performing arts activities and the operation of facilities and provision of services to meet cultural and entertainment interests. This includes the production and promotion of, and participation in, live performances, events or exhibits intended for public viewing; the provision of artistic, creative or technical skills for the production of artistic products, live performances and events.

This group includes activities in literary creation, musical composition, visual arts creation and related activities.

This class includes:
- activities of individual writers, for all subjects, including fictional writing, etc.
- musical composition
- texts and compositions writing on behalf of someone else
- activities of scriptwriting
- activities of journalists whose content is published by a third party
- activities of bloggers whose content is published by a third party

This class includes the activities of creation and production of works of the visual arts.

This class includes:
- activities of independent artists (e.g. sculptors, painters, cartoonists, calligraphers, engravers, etchers)
- digital forms of visual arts creation
- creations of art featuring light installations

This class includes:
- choreography activities

This class includes activities in the performing arts and related activities.

It includes:
- live stage productions (theatrical presentations, concerts, operas, dances and others):
 • activities of performing groups, circuses or companies, orchestras or bands
 • activities of performing artists (e.g. actors (including stand-up comedians), dancers, musicians (including activities of independent musicians), conductors)

This group includes support activities to arts creation and performing arts. It includes activities supporting the production of theatre, opera and ballet performances, musicals, events and others, activities of producers of artistic performances, inside or outside the premises.

This class includes:
- operation of arts facilities (e.g. concert halls, theatre halls, cultural centres)
- operation of arts facilities which support artistic creation in visual arts

This class includes:
- support activities to the performing arts for production of live stage presentations (e.g. theatrical presentations, concerts, opera, dance, other stage productions):
 • activities of producers, stage-set designers and builders, scene-shifters, lighting engineers, etc.
- organisation of cultural and entertainment events (e.g. film festivals, music and dance festivals)
- activities of film and theatre directors, dramaturges, film promoters and programmes creators

This division includes the activities of libraries and archives; the operation of museums of all kinds, heritage collections of all types, including library and archival documents, botanical and zoological gardens; the operation of archaeological and historical sites or buildings and the activities of nature reserves. These activities include the identification, collection, inventory, conservation/restoration and mediation of cultural or natural, tangible and intangible heritage.

This group includes activities related to the management, care, preservation and assessment of libraries and archives.

This group includes:
- documentation and information activities of libraries and archives of all kinds, including reading, listening and viewing rooms, providing library and archive services to the general public or to a specific public (e.g. students, scientists, staff members)
- operation of public archives (at governmental, regional or local level) or of private archives (artists’, historians’, writers’ archives, etc.)
- organisation of a library collection, whether specialised or not, cataloguing collections
- lending and storage of books, maps, periodicals, films, records, tapes, works of art, archives, etc.
- retrieval activities in order to comply with information requests, etc.

This class includes:
- documentation and information activities of libraries of all kinds (including digital libraries), reading, listening and viewing rooms:
 • organisation of a collection, whether specialised or not
 • cataloguing collections
 • lending and storage of books, maps, periodicals, films, records, tapes, works of art, etc.
 • retrieval activities in order to comply with information requests, etc.

Archive activities include the activities carried out by archival services of all types, with a view to building, storing, classifying, physical or digital archive collections and communicating them to the general public or to a particular category of users.

This class includes:
- activities of public archives providing a service to the general public or to a special clientele (e.g. students, scientists, staff members) as well as the operation of government archives
- activities related to the acquisition or collection of archives
- activities related to the identification, stocktaking, description and classification of archives
- activities related to the safety and maintenance of archive items (monitoring of the sanitary status and of climatic conditions, safety and security, rehabilitation)
- activities related to the communication of archives to the public on site or remotely
- digitisation of archival documents for digital archive collections

This group includes the operation, management, care, preservation, exhibition and assessment of cultural heritage: tangible, intangible and digital in a wide variety of types of collections (both private and public). It includes activities pertaining to cultural heritage places as a result of human intervention in its surroundings, from landscapes to gardens, from historical and archaeological sites to buildings.

This class includes:
- operation, management, care, preservation, assessment and exhibition of collections of museums of all kinds:
 • museums or art museums; applied art, crafts and design museums (e.g. jewellery, furniture, costumes, ceramics, silverware)
 • natural history, science and technology museums, historical museums (including military museums)
 • other specialised museums
- open-air museums, ecomuseums, digital and virtual museums
- collections in historic houses and national galleries; interpretation centres for ethnographic, religious and folk art (at local or regional level)
- activities of art galleries, exhibiting art (not for sale)

This class includes the operation and preservation of cultural heritage places as a result of human intervention in its surroundings, from landscapes to gardens and from buildings to sites (natural and built heritage).

This class includes:
- operation and preservation of historical sites and buildings
- operation and preservation of archaeological sites open to visitors

This class includes:
- conservation and restoration of historical and archaeological assets of all types of materials, whether the assets are movable or stationary

This class includes:
- operation of botanical and zoological gardens, including children’s zoos
- operation of aquariums

This class includes:
- operation of nature reserves, including wildlife preservation, etc.
- conservation and maintenance services of national parks, nature parks and reserves

This division includes the operation of gambling facilities (for example, casinos, bingo halls, electronic gambling machines) and the provision of gambling services (for example, lotteries, off-track betting). These gambling and betting activities can be carried out in gambling facilities or online.

This class includes gambling and betting activities, for example:
- bookmaking and other betting operations
- off-track betting
- operation of casinos (including floating casinos)
- sale of lottery tickets
- operation (exploitation) of coin-operated gambling machines
- quiz app subscriptions with prizes
- sports betting
- operation of card games as a betting activity
- operation of gambling or lottery games

This division includes sports activities in any form of physical activity undertaken, either occasionally or in an organised participatory manner, with the aim of expressing and improving physical fitness and mental well-being, and of establishing social links or achieving results in competitions at all levels.

This division includes the provision of amusement and recreation activities.

This group includes the operation of sports facilities; activities of sports teams or clubs primarily participating in live sporting events; independent athletes engaged in participating in live sports or racing events; activities related to training animals for sports or entertainment; sports trainers providing specialised services to support participants in sporting events or competitions; operators of arenas and stadiums; other activities of organising, promoting or managing sporting events n.e.c.

This class includes:
- operation of facilities for outdoor or indoor sporting events (open, closed or covered, with or without spectator seating)
- organisation and operation of outdoor or indoor sporting events for professionals or amateurs by organisations in their own facilities (not by sports clubs)

This class includes the activities of sports clubs, which, whether professional, semi-professional or amateur clubs, give their members the opportunity to engage in sporting activities.

Sports clubs are typically non-profit entities, but inclusion in the sports sector is legitimised by the prevailing purpose of the activity carried out (in other words, the promotion of practicing sports). The activities of education, training, the sale of advertising space and the provision of clubhouse services are, in this context, ancillary activities, which may have a prevailing weight at an economic level, but which are instrumental with respect to the prevailing purpose of the activity carried out and for its perpetuation.

This class includes:
- operation of sports clubs, e.g.:
 • football clubs
 • bowling clubs
 • swimming clubs
 • golf clubs
 • boxing clubs
 • winter sports clubs
 • chess clubs
 • track and field clubs
 • shooting clubs
 • e-sports clubs
 • card game clubs (e.g. bridge clubs)

This class includes:
- activities of fitness clubs
- activities of yoga studios
- activities of Pilates studios
- activities of tai chi studios

This class includes:
- activities of producers of sporting events, with or without facilities
- activities of individual own account sportspersons and athletes, referees, judges, timekeepers, etc.
- activities of individual own account participants of e-sports
- activities of sports federations, sports leagues and sports governing bodies
- activities related to promotion of sporting events
- activities of racing stables, kennels and garages
- operation of sport fishing and hunting preserves
- activities of mountain guides
- support activities for sport or recreational hunting and fishing
- operation of vertical, aerodynamic wind tunnels
- activities related to training animals for sports or entertainment
- organisation and operation of outdoor or indoor sporting events for professionals or amateurs by organisations (not by sports clubs) without own facilities

This group includes a wide range of units that operate facilities or provide services to meet the varied recreational interests of their patrons. It includes the operation of a variety of attractions (for example, mechanical rides, water rides, games, shows, theme exhibits and picnic grounds).

This class includes the activities of amusement parks and theme parks characterised by a permanent and site-based operation of a variety of attractions (for example, mechanical rides, carousels, games, shooting galleries, shows, theme exhibits, picnic grounds) that are provided under the economic and operational directive of a central operator. These parks are typically located in structurally delimited areas, for which customers must pay admission.

This class includes activities related to entertainment and recreation (except amusement parks and theme parks) not elsewhere classified:
- operation (exploitation) of coin-operated games
- rental of leisure and pleasure equipment as an integral part of recreational facilities
- operation of mechanical rides, games and shows by independent providers (e.g. at fairgrounds, festivals, Christmas markets)
- activities of beaches, including rental of facilities (e.g. bathhouses, beach chairs and umbrellas)
- activities of independent animators in amusement and recreation facilities
- operation of dance floors and ballrooms where beverage serving is not the main activity
- operation of computer rooms for playing computer games
- operation of self-service amusement devices (e.g. rocking chairs/horses/cars/spaceships)
- operation of airsoft and paintball courts
- operation of virtual reality or geolocated games/experiences
- amusement and recreation activities related to the infrastructure of marinas
- operation of billiard halls
- operation of escape rooms
- operation of bowling alleys
- creation and presentation of light and sound shows
- activities of guides for underwater excursions
- creation and presentation of fireworks displays
- operation of picnic grounds
- operation of laser games
- entertainment activities in retirement homes