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19 Jun 2001
Tourism Minister appointed
Dr Kim Howells MP has been appointed Minister for Tourism, Film and Broadcasting by new Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell. Howells, MP for Pontypridd, is looking forward his new vital role in rebuilding the tourism industry: Promoting tourism in Britain and helping to restore confidence within the industry following the foot and mouth outbreak is one of my first priorities, he commented.
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19 Jun 2001
National Gallery to open late for Vermeer
The National Gallery has taken the unprecedented step of staying open late at weekends to cope with the anticipated influx of visitors to its Vermeer and the Delft School exhibition in the Sainsbury's Wing. Some 545,000 saw the exhibition during its New York showing and gallery officials hope to repeat the success in London.
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15 Jun 2001
TiLE 2001 'a job well done'
The 10th Annual TiLE (Trends in Leisure and Entertainment) conference was dubbed 'a job well done' by organisers in its final year before a temporary move to the German capital, Berlin. Delegates representing theme parks, museums and attractions descended on the Business Design Centre in London for the three-day event. Topics covered this year included examining new trends in an uncertain climate, project management at new
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15 Jun 2001
Lowry Centre wins award
Salford's shimmering £106m Lowry Centre, housing the world's largest collection of works by L S Lowry, has been named building of the year. Judges from The Royal Fine Art Commission awarded the contemporary art gallery the accolade as 'a joy to see and fun to go into', beating stiff competition from Tate Modern and the British Museum's Great Court. Since its launch last year, the Lowry, designed by architects Michael Wilford,
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15 Jun 2001
BBC to create Dinosaur theme park ride
The BBC has entered into a partnership with Hyper Entertainment to create a theme park ride based on its successful Walking with Dinosaurs series. The attraction, currently in production, will be licensed to existing theme park operators worldwide and will feature a thrilling 'real life' dinosaur experience, followed by an interactive post-ride show. The partnership, a first for the BBC, is led by its commercial arm, BBC
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14 Jun 2001
Kick off for football museum
The National Football Museum in Preston will have its official opening next week by HRH Duke of Kent. Footballing legends Sir Tom Finney and Sir Bobby Charlton will join senior figures from FIFA, the FA at the museum's official launch after its 'soft opening' to the public in February. Features of the museum include nine collections of footballing memorabilia, including the FIFA collection with the world's oldest international
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14 Jun 2001
Leaning Tower to reopen to tourists
After more than a decade of closure and building work, the Leaning Tower of Pisa is to reopen to tourists in November after engineers managed to save the building from toppling and reduce its tilt by 16 inches. The £15m project has reformed the tower's infamous lean to the same amount it was some 300 years ago and engineers now hope to ensure the tower's structural survival for another 300 years. Tourists will help to cover
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11 Jun 2001
Dawson to be BALPPA chief exec
Colin Dawson has been appointed chief executive of the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions (BALPPA), taking over from Tim Bartlett, who is taking up a position with TRI Hospitality Consulting in Madrid. Dawson has a proven track record in the attractions business, having spent seven years as director and general manager of Thorpe Park, four years as managing director of Dreamland Leisure and two years
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8 Jun 2001
Lakeland Fells to reopen this weekend
Walkers will be allowed to access the Lakeland fells as of this weekend, the first time since restrictions were introduced to prevent the spread of the foot and mouth disease. The Cumbria Foot and Mouth Task Force decided that from tomorrow more than half of the regions walking hotspots will reopen, due to the levelling off of foot and mouth. These include Troutbeck, Coniston, Langdale, and England's highest mountain, Scafell
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8 Jun 2001
BTA calls on famous faces to draw visitors back
The British Tourist Authority (BTA) is relying on celebrity-power to draw overseas travellers back to Britain in the wake of the foot and mouth outbreak. The BTA has written to celebrities asking them to use their image and name to support the organisation's work, act as a spokesperson when travelling abroad, meet overseas opinion-formers when travelling to the UK, and write an endorsement of Britain. Famous names to have
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7 Jun 2001
Quintain Estates unveils £600m Greenwich plan
The consortium led by the Duke of Westminster to buy the Millennium Dome and surrounding land will be relieved when today's General Election is over. The group, led by the Duke's Grosvenor company and developers Quintain Estates, Lend Lease and Stanhope, hopes to proceed with bidding for the Dome, put on hold until after the election. Meanwhile, Quintain, which already owns 14 acres of land on the Greenwich Peninsula, has
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7 Jun 2001
Herefordshire launches activity brochure
Herefordshire is after the role of the UK's adrenalin capital with a new brochure featuring more than 60 operators and a host of leisure pursuits. As well as the more usual activities such as walking, cycling and horse riding it also covers less obvious diversions, like grass sledging, helicopter lessons and the chance to go on the largest high rope course in Europe. The brochure will be complemented by a series of special
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7 Jun 2001
Promotion for the Lake District
The Aquarium of the Lakes in the Lake District; country house, Brockhole; the World of Beatrix Potter and Windermere Lake Cruises have teamed up with supermarket, Somerfield, to try and persuade people back to the Lakes after foot and mouth. The promotion offers discounts for shoppers at all four attractions and is being trialled in Blackpool, Poulten-le-Fylde, Bamber Bridge and Standish. Marketing manager of Aquarium of the
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7 Jun 2001
Royal Opera House to freeze cost of cheapest tickets
Tony Hall, the new head of the Royal Opera House, has frozen the price of the cheapest seats responding to criticism that the sector is overpriced. The former head of news at the BBC used his first public statement as the organisation's executive director to announce a review of ways in which tickets can become more accessible. The bottom four prices bands for opera and ballet will remain at the same price as last year with
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