'It's a £73bn, million-employee industry, numbers that dwarf agriculture, for example, and yet tourism has never been seen as the champion industry it really is,' said Digby Jones, CBI director-general and chair of the Tourism Alliance.

'If the government plays its .... More>>

Lars Nittve, a Swede who joined in 1998, handed in his resignation last June, but there will be no announcement of his successor until June this year. Realistically, any new boss will not take over until the autumn.

The Tate recently lost Jeremy Lewison, its long-serving .... More>>

PRS, which already consists of Kolmarden Zoo, Skara Sommarland and the Vildmarkshollet, last year boasted over two million visitors (including those to Grona Lund), and a turnover of .... More>>

The EUR 12.3m Inatura project replaces an older natural history museum. The new museum will be housed within a former iron foundry and will span 3,000sq m within 25,000sq m of parkland.

The exhibitions will be designed to reflect the Vorarlberg ecosystem. Graphics, specimens and .... More>>

The award, presented to the Duke of York on behalf of the Queen, at the Safeway Excellence in England Awards in London, is to recognise the Queen's 'personal support for tourism' and her role .... More>>

Opened in 1935, the pavilion has undergone some restoration over the last ten years, including the refurbishment of the 1,000-seat theatre and an art gallery.

Under the latest proposals by the Pavilion Trust, two new wings will be added to house community .... More>>

A winner will be chosen on May 10 from six shortlisted architects including John Miller & Partners, Walters & Cohen, Brookes Stacey Randall and Bill Dunster Architects.

The £6.5m Woking Galleries will incorporate a museum, exhibition .... More>>

Fort Fun has been established for almost 35 years, and features more than 40 attractions including a Wild River log flume ride, and 45m high big wheel. The site attracts around 400,000 visitors a year, and records sales in excess of EUR 6m.

The acquisition .... More>>

The central focus is the tv campaign - the biggest ever produced to promote Britain as a tourist destination, focussing on heritage, humour and diversity. This will be supported by a direct mail and print advertising campaign highlighting partner offers such as cut price ferry fares to UK ports .... More>>

A three-phase new layout of galleries is planned - the museum's biggest redevelopment in 50 years, in order to make the museum more visitor friendly and enhance exhibition areas. 'The museum is an extraordinary historic building but it .... More>>

The 3,000sq m museum will be housed in a former iron factory and replace an older natural history museum.

Set within 25,000sq m of parkland, Inatura will take visitors on a journey through landscape and ecosystem of the Vorarlberg area, in west Austria. Graphics, specimens and living creatures will be used to tell .... More>>

A Taste of London, to be opened by Loyd Grossman on 12 May, will allow visitors to buy a Foodies passport and travel along a 'culinary timeline', tasting flavours of London and discovering the cooking secrets of periods of London's history, in an environment of drama, music and storytelling.

Various other .... More>>

With a target of 800,000 visitors English Heritage has themed this year's event around children and young people. The event offers people an opportunity to visit private-owned properties not usually open to the public.

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'We have a growing demand for accommodation facilities, not only from leisure visitors but also from conference and banqueting customers,' said Colin Bryan, managing director of the park

Some of the rooms will be themed along the lines of the park's attractions as well as a number of larger rooms being .... More>>