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World Leisure Center of Excellence Breda (WLCE Breda) in The Netherlands was accredited by the World Leisure Organization in 2014 for its unique research and education in the field of Leisure Studies. The overall aim of WLCE Breda is to support the goals and themes of the World Leisure Organization, to operate in a global Excellence Network in the field of Leisure Studies and to further develop leisure programs and research. The main focus of WLCE Breda is doing research, implementing the WLCE Breda visiting scholars program and providing the MSc Leisure Studies. This paper provides information about this MSc program and the research programs connected to it which focus on storytelling, experience, imagineering, placemaking and events. A key activity of the World Leisure Centers of Excellence network is the organization of a biannual field school connected to World Leisure Organization Congresses. In 2016 the field school will be held in Durban, South Africa and in 2018 in São Paulo, Brazil. Other future plans of the Excellence Network are joint research projects and providing master classes and training courses in the field of leisure aimed at government, community and commercial agencies. ; El Centro Académico de Excelencia en Ocio Breda (WLCE Breda) en Holanda, fue acreditado por la Organización Mundial del Ocio en 2014, por su investigación y educación excepcional en el campo de los estudios del ocio. El objetivo general del WLCE Breda consiste en apoyar las metas e iniciativas de la Organización Mundial del Ocio, operando como una red de excelencia global en el campo de los estudios del ocio, en la promoción y desarrollo de programas e investigación en ocio. Un foco principal de la WLCE Breda es el programa de investigadores visitantes para actuar en el Máster en Estudios del Ocio. El presente documento brinda información sobre el programa de Maestría y sus programas de investigación relacionados a la narración de historias, experiencias e imaginación, gestión de espacios, equipamientos y eventos. Un ...

Due to the increase in the number of elderly and people seeking medical care, the hotel market with a blend of care and leisure experiences is expected to grow in the future (Han, 2013; Karuppan & Karuppan, 2010; Laesser, 2011). The role of care hotels as an intersection between the care and the tourism sectors makes a vacation in a care hotel an interesting social practice to study. In this contribution a social practices approach (Spaargaren, 1997) is applied to investigate how demand and supply interact during a care hotel vacation. Semi-structured interviews are used to identify successful and less successful interactions or practices between senior guests and personnel in five Dutch care hotels. These interactions are related to materials (care and leisure facilities), competences (skills and empathy of the personnel) and meanings (motivations and aspirations of guests) in the care hotel practice (see Shove et al., 2012). The results show that a social practice approach combined with a qualitative research method may be more suited to analysing the complex encounters between guests and personnel during care hotel vacations than more traditional theories from service or experience quality studies. Simultaneously, this study makes clear that we need to develop alternative qualitative (and/or quantitative) research methods to study more privacy-related or intimate practices or rituals as in the case of care hotels.