The Leisure Roundup : Designing Belonging at Scale
The social “we” of sports clubs, Proper’s recovery rooms, and Mexico’s community-tourism network show how leisure operators can turn belonging, wellbeing, and local ownership into durable experiences.
A special edition on the psychology of leisure. How art, sport, leadership, design, and community shape attention, connection, recovery, and mental wellness.
The Leisure Roundup: Culture, Fitness and Design, but Sleep is “Layer 0”
This week: Sleep is the first step in hospitality wellness. Also: devolution and arts fundraising, Hyrox-ready gyms, and surf parks as mixed-use destinations.
The Leisure Roundup: Leisure Guilt Intrudes on Personal Time
This week’s Leisure Roundup looks at challenges in enjoying leisure from anti-philosophy biases to leisure guilt, to the burden tourism can place on a local environment.
Luxury hotels as art galleries, wellness retreats, gathering places, and sports clubs. When hotels became cultural worlds, they play a significant role in shaping human lifestyle.
A special end-of-summer edition of our weekly curation, featuring the invention of summer vacation itself, the science of the seasonal mood shift, the business of the shoulder season, and the destinations and communities that come alive as the light turns golden.
The Leisure Roundup: Play, Friendship and Experiential Luxury
This week: how luxury evolves, the health impact of friendship, the rise of alternative sports, longevity-minded wellness retreats, and a sharper focus on healthspan.
