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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

The WLO Board of Directors hosted its 2022 Annual Board meeting from November 3rd to 5th in a hybrid format. WLO Board members attending on-site also participated in the parallel Forum “Talking About Leisure”, co-organized by Brazilian partners SESC and WLCE University of São Paulo and celebrated in the same facilities at SESC Guadalupe (Pernambuco,Read more

WLO is kindly inviting you to the upcoming debate to analyse and discuss some of the most relevant topics discussed at MONDIACULT 2022. The invited expert speakers will provide us with their analyses, considerations and reflections about the meeting, its key facets, expected spinoffs and outcomes over various time and space scale. Join us onRead more