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WLO Chair Prof. Joanne Schroeder is a faculty member in the Department of Recreation and Tourism at Vancouver Island University, Canada – a World Leisure Center of Excellence (WLCE) – since 2000. Numerous roles have included administration, teaching, research and supervision, community engagement and development of experiential learning such as field schools and study tours.Read more

It is always a pleasure to see how our community grow, and with it our opportunities to make a positive impact on leisure development around the world! In this special issue, the last of the year, we want to give a shout-out to the people and organizations that have joined us as members or throughRead more

During this year, World Leisure Organization (WLO) has continued offering learning opportunities to further expand our educational approach through spaces designed for different audiences, such as academics, professionals, young and emerging leaders, etc., so that participants not only learn from other experiences, but also may share their own and collectively reflect on the ongoing transformations,Read more

Finally, this year, World Leisure Organization (WLO) has progressively and carefully resumed its face-to-face reunions so longed for the past couple of years. Back in April 2022, on the occasion of a team from WLO’s visit to Australia for the site evaluation of one of the potential hosts for World Leisure Congress in 2026, theRead more

The 17th World Leisure Congress – Leisure: Learn Well, Live Well – planning and organization is now fully on track! We are very much looking forward to seeing you next year in Dunedin, New Zealand.   Open call for abstracts Abstracts are open for oral presentations (20 minute presentation and 10 minutes Q&A) or contributionRead more

As a civil society organization that have already been admitted to the work of the governing bodies of the UNESCO 2005 Convention, the WLO participated on last November 5th, 2022, on an online consultation for the preparation of the preliminary proposals in the framework of the fourth Civil Society Forum organization. In February 2022, atRead more

By Patrick Hammer, Director of Parks and Recreation Town of Erie, Colorado, United States Note: This piece follows the webinar on the topic organized by the WLO Special Interest Group (SIG) on Leisure Management, which can be watched here. Catastrophic weather events, acts of mass violence, health pandemics, cyber-attacks to operating systems or just suddenRead more

The WLCE at Vancouver Island University, in partnership with the Heiltsuk Tribal Council and the North Island College both from Canada, has recently launched a report based on the findings and considerations after years of implementation of its Indigenous Ecotourism Training Program (IETP) titled “Enhancing Community Capacity and Evaluating Place-Based Pedagogy in Indigenous Tourism”. TheRead more

The launch of WLO SIG on Leisure and Human Rights occurred on October 24th, 2022, through a webinar which proposed a collaborative research project, ‘Holding nation states to account for leisure rights’. The online seminar, conducted by the SIG’s co-chairs Dr. Atara Sivan and Dr. Tony Veal, included presentations on these two elements and invitationsRead more

From September 28th to 30th, WLO Communication & Events Coordinator Dr. Mireia Iglesias attended PCMA Convening EMEAin Vienna, Austria, one of the biggest events’ industry conventions bringing attendees from over 40 countries with different background and specialties. The conference brought events’ practitioners together to solve the new challenges faced by the industry and also toRead more