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The World Leisure Organization (WLO) is excited to partner with Qatar Travel Mart (QTM) 2024, organized by NeXTfairs. The event will take place from November 25-27 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center. This year’s event, themed “Discover Places, People, and Cultures,” will showcase the rich diversity of global tourism offerings while highlighting Qatar’s uniqueRead more

17th World Leisure Congress – Call for abstracts extended! Call for abstracts for the 17th World Leisure Congress has been extended. Submissions now close Tuesday 18 April at 11:59pm NZST. Don’t miss the opportunity to present your knowledge, experience and research at the 17th World Leisure Congress! We invite submissions to the overall congress themeRead more

The 10th edition of the World Leisure International Innovation Prize seeks to recognize organizations that have implemented creative solutions which foster local, national or international leisure opportunities for the benefit and development of individuals and communities. Read the full open call here: 2023 WL International Innovation Prize Deadline to submit the application is: Monday, 5thRead 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

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

The World Leisure Organization would like to announce the new Editorial Board of the World Leisure Journal (WLJ). It is with great excitement that we greet this diverse and truly global Editorial Board with members based in over 20 countries. Members of the Editorial Board undertake a key role in supporting the Editor-in-Chief to maintainRead more

On Friday, November 25th, 2022, the European Network on Cultural Management and Policy (ENCATC) and the World Leisure Organization (WLO) will organize an online debate devoted to analysing, from their own perspectives on culture and leisure, some of the most relevant topics discussed at MONDIACULT 2022. The UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies and SustainableRead more

You are invited to register to attend an on-line seminar to launch the WLO’s newest Special Interest Group (WLO SIG) on Leisure and Human Rights and to hear about a proposed collaborative research project, ‘Holding nation states to account for leisure rights’. The seminar will include presentations on these two elements and invitations to participantsRead more

By CHAN, Chung-Shing, Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Acknowledgement This research project (Project Number: 14607919) is funded by the General Research Fund (GRF) administered by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The research findings on this project are availableRead more

By Katie P. Bernhard, Edwin Sabuhoro, and John Dattilo, Penn State University, USA Researchers from Penn State University, USA, Katie P. Bernhard, Edwin Sabuhoro, and John Dattilo, have a paper accepted for publication in the International Journal of Sociology of Leisure titled “Colonial Influence on Local Conceptions of Leisure and Environment in East Africa: IntersectionsRead more