WLO Communications and Events Coordinator, Mireia Iglesias, received the PCMA Global Scholarship and had the chance to travel all the way from Bilbao (Spain) to Nashville (United States) to attend PCMA 2018 Convening Leaders, which took place from the 7 to the 10 January. Events legacy, experience design, and more and more the importance ofRead more
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WLO Chief Operating Officer Cristina Ortega met Yolanda Perdomo, Director of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Affiliate Members Programme, at the UNWTO headquarters, which are located in Madrid, close to the WLO’s Scientific and Technical Office in Bilbao. Given that WLO is already an UNWTO Affiliate Member, the objective of this meeting was to exploreRead more
As a NGO in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1990, WLO is asked to send a report of activities on a yearly basis. The 2017 report was approved by the UN NGO Relations & Advocacy Annual Review Team in late January. The report detailed the work carried outRead more
The official opening of the 2018 EU-China Tourism Year (ECTY) took place on Friday 19 January 2018 in Venice, at the Doge’s Palace. Cristina Ortega Nuere, WLO Chief Operating Officer, attended the event in representation of the organization. Mr Li, Chairman of CNTA (China National Tourism Administration) and the European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry,Read more
The 2018 Douglas Ribeiro de Silva International Field School (24 August-1 September 2018) is a learning opportunity that combines a 4-day field experience with attendance to the 2018 World Leisure Congress (São Paulo, Brazil) “Leisure Beyond Constraints”. A total of 30 students will be participating in this international Field School, from World Leisure Centers ofRead more
Last December we invited you to share with us your best leisure moments of 2017 through a photo contest. Your pictures and texts were very inspiring and we loved to share a bit of your leisure experiences. Now we reveal the names of the two photo contest winners and thank everyone for their participation! FirstRead more
We warmly welcome six new members of the WLO Board of Directors, who will represent the organization for the period 2018-2021. They were elected by current members of the Board after an open nominations process launched last October. The newly elected members of the Board are: Gulshetty Basawaraj – International Institute of Social Science ResearchRead more
On November 14, 2017, 39 undergraduate students from the NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands visited the City of Richmond and toured its leisure sites and services. The day commenced with a welcome and introduction from the Director of Parks and Recreation at Richmond’s newest community centre in the heart of theRead more
The Department of Tourism of the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) has been recognized as a new World Leisure Center of Excellence (WLCE). The University of Otago is within the top two percent of universities worldwide according to the QS World University Rankings, is a major employer in the region and makes a significant contribution toRead more
It is within WLO’s mission to closely follow the latest developments in the field of leisure or in relation to its dimensions, as well as to bring WLO’s voice to international forums on leisure, culture, sports, recreation and tourism. Last December, Cristina Ortega Nuere, WLO Chief Operating Officer (COO), participated in two of the mostRead more
Supporting Organization signatory party of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism
