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15 Mar 2012
Private equity firm Apollo to acquire Great Wolf Resorts
Private equity investor Apollo Global Management (AGM) is set to acquire US waterpark operator Great Wolf Resorts.
The deal will see AGM pay US$5 for each Great Wolf share as well as take on the attraction operator's outstanding debt - making the deal worth around US703m (539m euro, 448m).
The sale
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15 Mar 2012
Damien Hirst unveils public gallery vision
Damien Hirst, one of the UK's most prominent contemporary artists, has announced plans to open a new public gallery housing his personal collection in south London in 2014.
The artist told the Observer newspaper that the Lambeth development would display highlights from his collection, which
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15 Mar 2012
Ripley's to open Toronto aquarium in 2013
Attractions operator Ripley Entertainment has confirmed that it will open a new aquarium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2013.
Ripley's Aquarium of Canada will be a 12,500sq m (135,000sq ft) family attraction with more than 5.7m litres (1.5m
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15 Mar 2012
ACE announces further Renaissance details
Further details of Arts Council England's (ACE) Renaissance National programmes, which are designed to support regional museums throughout England, have been announced.
The initiative provides a framework for support and includes the Designation and Accreditation schemes, national collection purchase programmes and campaigns such as Kids in Museums.
Renaissance National programmes are worth approximately £2.5m a
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15 Mar 2012
Study: West End theatres set for Olympic boost
A new study carried out by UK theatre website whatsonstage.com has found that London's West End theatres could stand to benefit from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Last December, composer Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber - whose Really Useful Group owns seven venues - expressed concern for the capital's arts sector in an interview with the BBC.
However, the whatsonstage.com survey of more than 32,000 theatregoers
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15 Mar 2012
£400k Paisley arts centre overhaul starts
Renfrewshire Council has announced the start of extensive renovation work at an arts venue in Paisley, which will cost £400,000 and is expected to take nine months to complete.
Paisley Arts Centre, which is housed in a former church building in the town centre, is run by the local authority's arts and museums service and will benefit from a series of repairs.
Council leader Brian Lawson said: "The restoration of
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13 Mar 2012
St Louis Zoo eyes former hospital site
St Louis Zoo Association has entered into a "conditional contract" with Medline Industries for the acquisition of the US city's 13.5-acre (5.5-hectare) former Forest Park Hospital site.
The attraction, which is the second smallest of the major accredited zoos in Missouri, said it is looking to purchase the
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13 Mar 2012
October launch for US museum's new home
The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) in Ohio, US, has announced that its new building in the Uptown district of University Circle will open on 8 October.
London, UK-based Farshid Moussavi Architecture are behind the design of the new facility, which aims to provide a catalyst for "creativity and
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12 Mar 2012
Report: UK tourism spend at 'record' high
Tourist spending in the UK reached a record high of £125bn last year, according to a new Tourism Alliance report launched at its annual Parliamentary reception today (12 March).
UK Tourism Statistics 2012 revealed that levels of expenditure in 2011 were £16bn higher than the previous record and comes
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12 Mar 2012
Cineworld to complete digital roll-out
Cineworld Group is to complete its digital roll-out across the UK and Ireland by the end of summer, with more than 75 per cent of its estate now currently using digital projectors.
It comes as the group revealed it had become the number one cinema operator in 2011, with revenues and pre-tax profits
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12 Mar 2012
Travelodge urges support for tourism sector
Travelodge chief executive Guy Parsons has called on MPs representing the 50 constituencies with the largest share of tourism business in the UK to seek further support for the sector.
In a letter to the MPs, Parsons has urged them to press the government into cutting VAT on tourism firms to 5 per cent, which Travelodge believes will help create 79,000 jobs.
The budget hotel operator is also calling on the MPs to
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12 Mar 2012
Work starts on new Miami science museum
A groundbreaking ceremony has been held to mark the start of construction work on Miami Science Museum's (MSM) new US$275m (£175.3m, EUR209.9m) home in Florida, US.
The 250,000sq ft (23,226sq m) Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is due to open in 2015 and has been designed by international
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09 Mar 2012
Brent cultural centre proposals go on show
Plans for the development of a new cultural facility in Willesden Green, north west London, have been put on show at a public exhibition by Brent Council and Galliford Try.
The public will have the opportunity to view the Willesden Green Cultural Centre proposals today (9 March) and tomorrow (10 March), with the new building due to open in 2014.
Facilities will include a museum, a special exhibition gallery and a
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09 Mar 2012
ESPA to sponsor Ai Weiwei-designed Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
International spa company ESPA has announced the first of its planned cultural partnerships for 2012 with the sponsorship of the annual Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in Hyde Park, London, UK.
The pavilion is a temporary structure commissioned annually by the Serpentine Gallery to provide a showcase for contemporary architectural practice.
This year, the gallery has been designed in partnership by Chinese artist and architect Ai Weiwei and Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron (HDM). Weiwei and HDM
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