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04 Jun 2014
Sir John Soane’s ‘Party Property’ awarded £4.42m Heritage Lottery Grant
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded a £4.42m (US$7.4m, €5.4m) grant to restore Pitzhanger Manor, West London, to turn it into a tourist attraction. The former home of architect Sir John Soane, will undergo a major redevelopment in a bid to turn the building into a “world class attraction”. The project,
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03 Jun 2014
Chinese company planning full-size CN¥1bn Titanic replica attraction
A Chinese company will spend CN¥1bn (US$160m, €177.6m, £95.4m) on building a full-scale Titanic replica to be permanently moored in the Qijiang river, Sichuan province, China. The replica ship will be exactly the same size as the original - 269m (882ft) long and 28m (92ft) wide - and will be permanently docked
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03 Jun 2014
Pop up Hunger Games museum in the works for US cities
Lionsgate Studio’s CEO Jon Feltheimer has revealed that plans are in the works to launch a travelling museum based around the hit series of books, later made into a series films – The Hunger Games. During Q3 of 2015, The Hunger Games:
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02 Jun 2014
NI tourism visitors stay flat but spending increases
Despite inbound tourism figures holding steady, Northern Ireland’s tourism sector saw revenues jump £33m last year to £723m. The latest government statistics show that a high-profile year – which saw the hosting of the G8 summit in Fermanagh and
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02 Jun 2014
Kim Jong-un: North Korea needs more 4D cinemas
North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has suggested installing further 4D cinemas outside of Pyongyang, the country’s capital. The 4D technology, used to immerse North Korean citizens into the outside world at the Runga People’s Pleasure Ground in Pyongyang, was created in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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01 Jun 2014
Attractions Management launches AM2 global news magazine
Leisure Media and Attractions Management have today (1 June 2014) officially launched AM2 – the first jobs and news magazine for the global visitor attractions industry. AM2 will be published every two weeks, but will keep you up to date in between each edition with a whole raft of digital news feeds and
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01 Jun 2014
Warner Bros may develop Harry Potter spin-off
AM2 understands Warner Bros is exploring the possibility of creating attractions based on JK Rowling’s book Fantastical Beasts and Where to Find Them. The media giant has already acquired film rights to the story, which was written by the Harry Potter author in 2001. Locations are not yet
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30 May 2014
Planetariums lack brand recognition with the public
Douglas Duncan, director of the recently renovated Fiske Planetarium in Boulder Colorado, US, has said that Planetariums suffer from branding challenges. Speaking to Attractions Management, Duncan said “Numbers have grown mostly through
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IAAPA Expo Europe was established in 2006 and has grown to the largest international conference and trade show for the leisure and attractions industry in the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region.
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