The City of Richmond has been designated as a World Leisure Community of Excellence for 2017 by the World Leisure Organization (WLO), recognizing Richmond’s innovative use of leisure to improve its citizens’ quality of life.
Earlier this month, the WLO designated Richmond as a World Leisure Community of Excellence for 2017. The city was recognized for its rich arts and cultural communities, outdoor green spaces, unique heritage and waterfront roots, and opportunities for volunteerism.
“The City of Richmond receives this award for its substantive contributions as a community to promoting leisure as a means to enhance the human condition,” noted the WLO. “Richmond serves as an exemplar of how broad-based citizen involvement can effectively promote leisure as integral to the social, cultural, economic, and sustainable environmental development of the community.”
The World Leisure Community of Excellence designation is given to communities that have successfully used leisure to reinvent themselves and to improve the economic, social and cultural lives of their citizens.
