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Numbers down at Walt Disney
BY Martin Nash | 19 Nov 2009
An earnings statement for the Walt Disney Company's 2009 financial year shows that revenues at its Parks and Resorts division were down seven per cent at US$10.7bn (£6.4bn, 7.2bn euro), compared with the same period last year.
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Football museum set for Manchester move
BY Pete Hayman | 19 Nov 2009
The National Football Museum has announced plans to open at Manchester's Urbis centre in 2011 after trustees of the attraction resolved to enter into a deal with Manchester City Council (MCC).
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Mivan wins two new museum projects
BY Martin Nash | 19 Nov 2009
Interiors and theming company Mivan has secured two major museum fit-out projects - the new £4.4m Glasgow Riverside Museum contract and a £1.6m project at the Museum of the Order of St John in Clerkenwell, London.
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Heineken Experience receives Thea Award
BY Martin Nash | 18 Nov 2009
The Heineken Experience in Amsterdam, The Netherlands has won the Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Brand Experience by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA).
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Blenheim Palace joins green tourism scheme
BY Martin Nash | 18 Nov 2009
Blenheim Palace, one of England's most famous stately homes, has become the 2,000th member of the Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS) in a ceremony carried out by Conservative Party leader David Cameron.
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Devon attraction wins planning battle
BY Pete Hayman | 17 Nov 2009
Crealy Great Adventure Park, near Exeter, Devon, UK, has won its bid to prevent the local authority taking enforcement action against it in a planning row over the construction of two rides.
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New children's attraction set for Malaysia
BY Pete Hayman | 17 Nov 2009
HIT Entertainment has licensed its first The Little Big Club in Asia as part of Themed Attractions and Resorts' (TAR) multi-million pound Puteri Harbour development in Malaysia.
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Tullie House gallery plans unveiled
BY Pete Hayman | 17 Nov 2009
Plans for a new multi-million pound Tullie House Roman Gallery and tourism trail linking with the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site in Carlisle, Cumbria, are set to be discussed by the local authority.
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Lifelong learning pledge from MLA
BY Tom Walker | 16 Nov 2009
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) has achieved its target of encouraging 3,000 individual museums, libraries and archives to sign the Learning Revolution pledge.
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Visitors fail to stem Disneyland Paris losses
BY Pete Hayman | 16 Nov 2009
Euro Disney SCA, which owns the operator of Disneyland Paris, France, has posted a loss of €63m (£56.2m, US$93.8m) for the year ending 30 September 2009, despite record visitor numbers.
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£3.7m to safeguard historic Margate coaster
BY Pete Hayman | 16 Nov 2009
The future of one of Britain's oldest surviving rollercoasters, a scenic railway ride in Margate, Kent, has been safeguarded after the Dreamland Trust was handed a £3.7m grant.
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Down House wins tourism award
BY Martin Nash | 12 Nov 2009
Members of the British Guild of Travel Writers have voted Charles Darwin's former home - Down House at Downe, near Orpington, Kent - as the best UK Tourism Project for 2009.
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£2m funding for Scottish gallery scheme
BY Pete Hayman | 12 Nov 2009
A major two-year scheme, designed to transform the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, has been awarded a £2m funding boost by the Monument Trust.
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Art galleries benefiting from government's AIL scheme
BY Martin Nash | 09 Nov 2009
In a move worth nearly £20m, paintings by Titian, Van Dyck and David Hockney, plus other cultural works, were saved for the nation last year as a result of the government's Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme.
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NT opens UK's largest winter garden
BY Martin Nash | 09 Nov 2009
A seven acre Winter Garden, said to be the largest of its kind in the UK, has been opened at the National Trust's Dunham Massey property in Cheshire.
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Shanghai Disney theme park gets go-ahead
BY Martin Nash | 05 Nov 2009
The Walt Disney Company has received central government approval for its Project Application Report to build a Disney theme park in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China.
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