Vancouver Island Economic Alliance 2013 State of the Island Economic Summit. October 29th to 30th. Nanaimo, BC.
A panel of experts will look at accelerating the commercialization of 'greentech' innovations...
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Welcome Visiting Scholar Dr. Katherine King!
The WLC has already hosted Dr. Neil Carr as our first visiting scholar for the 2013 academic year. Now, we are gearing up to host our next visiting scholar, Dr. Katherine King.Katherine King is a Lecturer in Leisure Studies in the school of Tourism at Bournemouth University in the UK. Her research...
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Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference, April 8th to 12th, 2014, Tampa, Florida (CALL FOR PAPERS)
Call for Papers:Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Conference, Tampa, April 8-12, 2014Political Ecology and Tourism: Concepts, Constructs and PracticesCo-sponsored session by the AAG Recreation, Tourism...
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LinkBC Needs You – Mentoring at the Annual Student Case Competition (Oct 27,2013)
LinkBC’s Student Case Competition will take place on Sunday October 27th at the Vancouver Convention Centre as part of Connect, BC’s hospitality industry event. Each team in the competition (either degree or diploma-level) will require a mentor to help facilitate their leadership and teambuilding...
Read MoreInnovation Infusion Event! October 17
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Read More6th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism. July 8th to 10th, 2014. Opatija, Croatia
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More Student Funding! Hayek Fund | The Institute for Humane Studies
Career development grants up to $750 for students and untenured scholars; can cover travel, application fees, conference fees, and other career-related expenses. Eligible career-advancing activities include, but are not limited to:Presentations at academic or professional conferencesTravel to...
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The Georgetown Conference Opportunity
The great myth of rural Atlantic Canada is that she is a region whose best years are behind her. For those of us who live and work here the stereotype is nothing new: We are too old, too dependent on faltering traditional industries, too reliant on government, too parochial.Rubbish, we say.The...
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Nanaimo Daily News. Erin Heeney. Why Nanaimo? Draw to Vancouver Island started in childhood by Cara Mckenna
Why Nanaimo? Draw to Vancouver Island started in childhoodCARA MCKENNA / DAILY NEWS SEPTEMBER 16, 2013Erin Heeney.While growing up in New Brunswick, Erin Heeney dreamed of living on Vancouver Island.Her love of adventure made her long for a place where she could sail year-round, yet escape to the...
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An Innovative Civil Society: Impact through Co-creation and Participation. 6th Living Knowledge Conference. April 9th to 11th, 2014. Copenhagen, Denmark
The time has come to recognize civil society as producer of knowledge, and have civil society organisations accepted as partners in research and innovation directed towards public interest, but also have civil society’s own activities recognized as research and innovation. There is today some...
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Vancouver Island University and the World Leisure Centre of Excellence acknowledge and thank the Snuneymuxw, Quw’utsun, Tla’amin, Snaw-naw-as and Qualicum First Nation on whose traditional lands we research and share knowledge.
2018 WLCE International Field School
Gold River Tourism Strategic Plan
Recreation Prescription Project - VIU CREATE Conference 2019
2018 WLCE International Field School - Brazil
Vancouver Learning Lab with Visiting Scholar Dr. Marco Bevolo
Ghana Research & Study Tour 2019
World VIU Points - Visiting Scholar Dr. Daniel Theriaut
Impact Sustainability Travel & Tourism 2019
Ghana Research & Study Tour 2019
Visiting Scholar Dr. Kelly Bricker and MASLM students and faculty
2018 WLCE International Field School - Brazil
PechaKucha Night Nanaimo Vol.8
PechaKucha Night and VIUWLCE's 10th Anniversary
MASLM Cohort 2019
B250 VIU Faculty of Management
Vancouver Learning Lab
PechaKucha Night Nanaimo Vol.9 - Putting Leisure on the Map