Case Study Salt Spring Agricultural Land Preservation and Food Security
By Llanavis DaviesThe preservation of agricultural land both the space and land quality is directly related to food security and sustainability, as without healthy available land to grow food: people are unable to eat in times of crisis and food shortages. Agriculture on Salt Spring Island (SSI)...
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Seasonality Challenges at Poets Cove
By Gordon ClarkOn a recent field trip to Salt Spring and Pender Island, British Columbia, our Sustainable Leisure Management class had the opportunity to learn about innovative sustainability initiatives. The trip was at the end of October. We talked to many people and walked on many farms. The...
Read MoreYoung Adult Retention and Attraction on the Pender Islands
By Shannon BenceDuring the week of October 22nd-26th, I was fortunate enough to be with my Masters of Sustainable Leisure Management classmates on a learning tour, touring Salt Spring and the Pender Islands located in the Southern Gulf Islands Region. The purpose of our tour was to learn and listen...
Read MoreHealth and Wellness on Salt Spring Island
By Abhinav VermaSalt Spring Island is famously known as a centre for physical health and wellness, well-being. It has several services that are present on the island that gives it this title of being a wellness centre. The Island offers services such as: Yoga, Spas and fitness centres. We can see...
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Seasonality and Food on the Southern Gulf Islands
By Anna RomanovaThis blog entry is the result of the one week fieldwork spent on Salt Spring and Pender Islands (http://www.hellobc.com/vancouver-island/popular-areas/gulf-islands.aspx ), where MA SLM students’ group was learning about sustainable issues and challenges that communities are facing...
Read MoreLocal Fashion and Salt Spring Island
By Basemah AlhobishyClothing is a primary nonverbal cue from which assumptions are made in first impressions. Clothing is an important part of the identity construction process and its ability to transmit immense meaning and messages allows clothing to serve as a major component in forming...
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Laurel Sliskoviv Receives TIABC Pat Corbett Leadership Award
Laurel Sliskovic, MA Sustainable Leisure Management, Vancouver Island University. "Leadership is about understanding and knowing who I am. it is knowing when to lead and when to follow. Successful leaders are authentic, inspiring and confident." Was awarded the Pat Corbett Leadership award graduate...
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SLM Student Receives Prestigious Scholarship
We at the World Leisure Center of Excellence are proud to announce that Monica Shore(http://www.monicashore.com) from the second cohort of SLM students, has recieved the Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC)/Parks Canada (PC) Sustainable Tourism Scholarship (http://tiac.travel/scholarship....
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Synopsis of Sustainable Transportation Relations Affecting the Pender Islands
By Jake SkinnerThis blog entry is the end result of two weeks of communal inquisition into sustainability issues affecting Salt Spring and Pender Islands. Our first week was the field research. The entire MA SLM student class traveled to Salt Spring and Pender Islands to learn from locals about...
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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