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The Third World Leisure Expo will be held in the Chinese city of Hangzhou from 20 October to 12 November 2017. A second preparatory meeting was held in Hangzhou between WLO Chief Operating Officer, Communication & Events Coordinator, and Programme Coordinator, and the WLO Expo team. Both parties are working in close collaboration to ensureRead more

WLO Chief Operating Officer, Communication & Events Coordinator, and Programme Coordinator visited the Center for Leisure Studies of the Chinese Academy of Art in Beijing. This was an excellent opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge on the development of Leisure as a field of study in China. Dr. Cristina Ortega, WLO COO, declared: “We were veryRead more

The World Leisure Organization (WLO) is greatly pleased to announce that there has been a unanimous decision to recognize and designate the City of Richmond as one World Leisure Communities of Excellence of 2017. The City of Richmond receives this award for its substantive contributions as a community to promoting leisure as a means toRead more

The University of Sao Paulo has launched the programme Giro Cultural USP, aimed at facilitating access for everyone, within and beyond the university community, to the USP’s cultural and leisure offer. Departments and museums in Cidade Universitaria, the main campus of the University of Sao Paulo and the biggest in Latin America, can be visitedRead more

The Chinese city of Pinggu will be hosting the 16th World Leisure Congress in 2020. On July 2016, Pinggu District Government and the World Leisure Organization (WLO) signed the contract that established the general basis for preparing the general program for the international Congress. Since then, quite a few movements have been made and theRead more

Building on the relations developed within the WLO Future Leaders programme, the Young People’s Leisure Network (YPLN) was created by participant universities and students to involve youth coordinators and adult supervisors in the organisation of a wide range of activities to promote international exchange in the leisure field. Among the activities organised by the YPLNRead more

World Leisure Organization (WLO) brought the leisure perspective into ENCATC’s 6th International Study Tour to the United Arab Emirates, which took participants to the cities of Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and Dubai from 14 to 17 March. Cristina Ortega Nuere, Chief Academic and Operating Officer, and Mireia Iglesias, Communication & Events Officer from WLO led theRead more

A sports delegation from the Chinese universities Zheijang University and Nantong University visited Hungary from the 14th to the 20th June. The visit was hosted and supported by the City of Pápa, in northwest Hungary, and co-organised by the Young People’s Leisure Network (YPLN), together with Pápa Table Tennis Association and Bamafo Foundation. Chinese athletesRead more

World Leisure Journal is the official journal of the World Leisure Organization. Its main purpose is to stimulate and communicate research, theory, and critical thought in all areas that address leisure, including play, recreation, the arts and culture, sport, festivals, events and celebrations, health and fitness, and travel and tourism. The journal’s quality and impactRead more

YPLN is looking for enthusiastic young musicians willing to embark on a project which would take them to play together in different places around the world. This initiative is called YOUPECO’2017 and it aims at spreading a message of peace and understanding through the music played by a group of young musicians from different originsRead more