Living leisure experiences pre, during, and post COVID-19 outbreak: are there new research trends?
By Teresa Freire, Assistant Professor, School of Psychology, University of Minho (Portugal); Chair of the Leisure and Well-being SIG There…
Strategic Priorities Grants Open Call
The World Leisure Organization is pleased to launch 2020 Strategic Priorities Grants programme designed to support World Leisure members’ projects…
Re-defining health in sports activities?
It is impossible nowadays to write a piece on leisure policies without having the COVID-19 setting in mind. As the…
Meet a Professional Around the World
An initiative from World Leisure Organization Youth Ambassadors Committee World Leisure Organization offers online forums on leisure related matters (theories…
Update on 16th World Leisure Congress status
These are unprecedented times that require unprecedented measures. Our priority now is to support and understand our community. We remain…
Leisure experience research – A new theoretical and empirical framework
By Dr. Marcel C.M. Bastiaansen Senior lecturer and researcher in quantitative research methods, Academy for Leisure and Events, Breda University…
What policies will “save” Leisure?
If there is a sector affected by the spreading novel coronavirus, this is without doubt the Leisure sector. Theater, museums,…
Sesc São Paulo celebrates Sesc Verão!
The Summer Sesc (Sesc Verão) is a project which, since its creation, has been introducing concepts, innovative ideas and the…
Monitoring Sustainability in Tourism – the International Network of Sustainable Tourism Destinations
In order to strengthen institutional capacities for information management and monitoring in support of decision and policymaking, UNWTO launched in…
Park Rx America participates in research on the health outcomes of medical prescriptions to visit parks
A “nature as medicine” movement has emerged in the United States and other countries to encourage doctors and other healthcare…