Blog

This year, and from the 20 October to the 12 November, the World Leisure Expo and Forum has a more international feel gathering exhibitors and speakers from all over the globe. The four main spotlights include the Third World Leisure Expo, the World Summit Forum on Leisure Development, the Leisure Festival for Citizens and the Route ofRead more

WLO welcomes Senthil Kumaran Piramanayagam as a new member. He works as a professor and a research at the Welcomgroup Graduate School of Administration and Centre for Hospitality Research (WGSHA), Manipal University (India). Keep reading to know more about him! In one sentence: What does leisure mean to you? It is a time, we are what weRead more

Dr. Miklos Banhidi (Széchenyi István University), WLO Board of Directors member, did a teaching and research stay at Zhejiang University, from the 10 to the 29 July, invited by another WLO Board member, Dr. Jane Zhou. Among many other activities, Dr. Banhidi offered a summer course of thee weeks at the end of which studentsRead more

WLO is currently seeking international leisure field scholars and professionals who want to invest their time in strengthening our organization. We are looking for thought leaders to assist WLO in empowering our projects and community, advocating for the leisure field and supporting our members worldwide. The advancement and growth of WLO would not exist without the commitmentRead more

For two very intense days Yvonne Klerks, WLO Treasurer, met the team at WLO Office in Bilbao. This has recently become kind of a traditional working meeting in which team members recap and reflect in the future activity and projects of the organization. These are always intense and long days, accompanied by a learning process.Read more

WL Centers of Excellence (WLCE) network are currently working on the next WL Field School, which will take place on the occasion of the next WL Congress 2018 in São Paulo, connected to the theme of the Congress: “Leisure Beyond Constraints”. Students from the 3 WLCE and Brazilian students will participate in the Field SchoolRead more

An invitation for expressions of interest to contribute to defining the key topics for World Leisure Organization Special Interest Groups (SIGs) was launched in 2016. This invitation responded to a priority that was pointed out during an open debate held in 2016 LARASA World Leisure Congress (Durban, South Africa): open and accessible SIGs should beRead 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

See and download the Official Call here: WORLD LEISURE ORGANIZATION 2017 INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION PRIZE The 7th 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. The originality, creativity, and innovationRead more

Mary Xiao Yang, from Travel&Leisure China, and Helena Ma from IDEA CommunicationRead more