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The World Leisure Center of Excellence at Zhejiang University (WLCE-ZJU) is very pleased to announce that Suichang County has officially been confirmed as its first Innovation Base in China. After rounds of reports, meetings, and discussions, WLCE-ZJU and Suichang Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau reached an agreement on achieving the leap-forward transformation andRead more

This year is World Leisure Organization (WLO) 70th anniversary.  WLO has been promoting leisure as integral to social, cultural, economic and sustainable environmental development worldwide and for decades. As a member driven organization with a worldwide representation, WLO and for 70 years has been achieving its mission, vision and goals through its programs and activitiesRead more

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Recently, WLO has been greeted with the exciting announcement that the 17th World Leisure Congress has been selected as one of the proposals to be included within the UNWTO Programme of Work 2022. Every year a great number of outstanding projects wish to be part of this process, and from WLO we are very proudRead more

The Leisure Management Special Interest Group (LM SIG) delivered its first webinar session titled, Designing Experiences: Conversation with RJ Rossman, on 30 November / 1 December 2021. The webinar was based on the book, Designing Experiences (2019) by RJ Rossman and Mathew Duerdan. The conversation with Bob Rossman successfully covered the principles of Designing Experiences,Read more

WLO Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Cristina Ortega, represented the WLO at Qatar Travel Mart 2021 held from November 16th to 18th in Doha. This is the first exhibition of its kind in Qatar to promote both inbound and outbound tourism and to cater specifically to the travel and tourism industry. QTM 2021 was a three-dayRead more

WLO Chief Operating Officer, Dr. Cristina Ortega, represented the World Leisure Organization as an UNWTO Affiliate Member (AM) at the 43rd Affiliate Members Plenary Session, held on November 30th in Madrid, Spain. The AM Plenary Session was celebrated in the framework of the 24th UNWTO General Assembly for the first time this year, and itRead more

WLCE case volume SPECIAL ISSUE: Focus on Student Research   The World Leisure Centre of Excellence (WLCE) at Vancouver Island University is privileged to share its fifth volume of case studies, as part of the Innovative Leisure Practices series. See the fifth volume of case studies here: https://bit.ly/3dzVC7c As in past compilations, the case studiesRead more

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Date: December 3, 2021 Place: Faculty of Science University of Pécs, Hungary Pécs Ijúság u. 6. (TTK Kari Tanácsterem/Conference room) Time: 09:00AM to 17:00PM Online room link: https://bit.ly/3FNcpPZ Programme: II. International Youth Conference on Recreation and Leisure ProgrammeRead more