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16 Oct 2025
Work is underway on a £19.7 million waterfront leisure centre in Newport, which will be
02 Jul 2025
Starwood Hotels has opened its first 1 Hotel in Australia – 1 Hotel Melbourne –
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The national governing body for group exercise in the UK – EMD UK (Exercise, Movement
26 Feb 2025
Luxury wellness brand BodyHoliday is expanding into Europe with a five-star health and fitness retreat
The National Attractions Marketing Conference will see speakers representing some of the UK’s top visitor
One of the biggest mistakes operators in the fitness industry still make is advertising almost
27 Apr 2024
Numbers from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, (ALVA) show that Royal attractions saw a
07 Feb 2024
US developer Olympus Real Estate Group has breathed new life into California's historic Murrieta Hot
02 Feb 2024
Wake the Tiger, the Bristol-based immersive art experience, is set to open its 1,000sq m
26 Oct 2023
For the past 30 years, historic Southern California hot springs retreat Murrieta Hot Springs Resort
13 Sep 2023
A newly opened visitor centre at White Crane Lake in Yingtan, China, has been designed
16 Aug 2023
Sir Nick Varney has been revealed as the headline speaker at this year's VAC. Taking
Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers confirming
14 Jul 2023
VisitEngland has published its Annual Survey of Visits to Visitor Attractions for 2022, showing that
22 Mar 2023
Visitor numbers at the UK’s leading attractions have bounced strongly, getting to 78 per cent
10 Jan 2023
A report issued by the UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused Sport England
04 Nov 2022
A huge "film city" and visitor attraction project in Nigeria has reached a major milestone,
19 Oct 2022
California’s historic Murrieta Hot Springs has been purchased for US$50m (€51m, £44.4m) by Olympus Real
12 Oct 2022
The National Visitor Attractions Conference (VAC 2022), has been held for the 19th time. Taking
As healthcare continues to shift towards prevention, there’s a growing focus on helping people stay
30 Sep 2022
VAC 2022 has announced the final line-up of 25 top attractions sector speakers set to
01 Jun 2022
Bernard Donoghue, director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), has been awarded an
21 Mar 2022
Lobbying is gearing up in advance of the Spring Budget this week, with UK Active
24 Feb 2022
New beachfront resort Radisson Blu Zaffron Resort will open its doors on the popular Greek
06 Feb 2022
Culturespaces has announced that its new digital art centre, Fabrique des Lumières, will open in
02 Jun 2021
A coalition of global organisations and business leaders from BP, BHP, Clifford Chance, Deloitte, HSBC,
28 Apr 2021
Marine spa brand Phytomer has introduced salvation for even the driest skin with the launch
09 Apr 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in visits to the world's top 100 museums and galleries
31 Mar 2021
The UK's major visitor attractions recorded just 45.4 million visits during 2020 – a 70
22 Oct 2020
For those who missed VAC 2020 – the annual UK Conference for Visitor Attractions –
05 Oct 2020
UK tourism and heritage minister, Nigel Huddleston, delivered the keynote speech during this year's Annual
10 Jul 2020
England and Scotland have become the most recent countries to announce their spas will reopen,
30 May 2020
The fitness industry in Europe is uniting today (30 May) to launch #beactivehour, a free
15 May 2020
"When I started working at Natura Bisse, the first thing I learned from our skincare
25 Mar 2020
Police in San Antonio, Texas, were forced to shut down the city's aquarium after the
20 Mar 2020
As part of its Ten York condo development in Toronto, developer Tridel has created an
20 Mar 2020
The heads of several major organisations, including The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), the
20 Mar 2020
Therapists qualified in mental health interventions are being invited to get involved with a new,
12 Feb 2020
BIG Ideas, the technology arm of renowned architecture firm Bjarke Ingles Group (BIG), has partnered
05 Feb 2020
A new project looks to help women who are currently inactive and going through menopause
25 Dec 2019
It has been another momentous year in the attractions industry, and Attractions Management has been
29 Nov 2019
London-based designers Tino Seubert and Theodora Alfredsdottir have teamed up to create Corrugation Lights, a
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Greg Bradley looks at the shift towards strength training in gyms and advises on how operators can create the ultimate training environment
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Find out how your gym can tap into the corporate wellness boom
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SnowDome Fitness has added 50 per cent more space with cutting-edge Technogym solutions
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Third Space partnered with IndigoFitness to deliver a
bespoke training space for its new club at The Whiteley
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David Lloyd is stepping up its commitment to women’s health as it continues to explore what fit-for-purpose looks like for the female population
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Starpool supports Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, says Riccardo Turri
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EGYM has opened a new HQ in Paternoster Square,
London and revealed a range of new launches
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Pulse Fitness has created a
new health club delivering an
elevated wellness experience
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The industry is embracing consumer-facing tech. Now it’s time to
streamline back-of-house systems with Orbit4, says Daniel Jones
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Raphael Cuomo explores the
powerful link between addiction,
health and behaviour change
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As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
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Small improvements to sleep, diet and physical activity have major benefits for the heart, according to new research from the University of Sydney
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Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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For every member with a tripod and a big following, there are others irritated at the way equipment is being hogged or wary they’ll be in the background on someone’s Insta feed. Do influencers offer valuable, free marketing or are they just a nuisance? Kath Hudson finds out how operators are responding
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If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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Stephen Price
Founder, SP&Co Group“Working in public health over the last few years has lit up parts of my brain again”
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Jamie Clements
The Breath Coach“I experienced a blissful feeling of joy I hadn’t felt since I was a kid”
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Consolidation, specialisation and shifting consumer behaviours
are reshaping the sector, say Deloitte and EuropeActive
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Deena Gillan
Chair of UK Active’s Independent Council and GM at 3-1-5“There are so many dedicated people in the independent sector – they work hard because they’re passionate about changing lives”
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