Opening soon in Wroclaw, Poland at the Zoo Wroclaw will be the brand new Afrykarium Oceanarium. The building, a black concrete monolith, houses five distinctive halls that each depict aspects… read more →
We read on the Blooloop website last week that the planning permission for NIRAH, the massive fresh water aquarium attraction planned for Bedfordshire, has expired with several million pounds of… read more →
Britons now spend an average of less than £10 each time they pay by cash, as shoppers increasingly switch to debit and credit cards and buy online. A report by… read more →
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a total of £72m to six major heritage projects across England. The winning projects are: – Canterbury Cathedral (£11.9m) to set up a new… read more →
ALVA, the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, have released figures for attendances in 2013 at their 197 member attractions. 67 (34%) of those saw attendances up by over 10% –… read more →
UK Treasury minister David Gauke has rejected a call for tourism VAT to be cut to 5 per cent, despite MPs from all parties gathering to support the measure during… read more →
Writing in Attractions Management (http://tinyurl.com/na4l24c) Kath Hudson reports on an initiative in Paris to turn 16 “ghost stations” which have been disused for decades into leisure spaces, ranging from theatres, nighclubs,… read more →
I was very interested to read Chris Moore, National Director Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels commenting “Hotel development is taking place, and more often in unexpected places. Very often, the justification for hotel investment… read more →
As 2014 gets underway the Christmas and New Year break, which one sensed at the time was going on and on and on, is now becoming a distant memory! The… read more →