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Set to launch on 23 May, SeaWorld Abu Dhabi will feature eight different realms offering immersive experiences – as well as dynamic habitats housing different ... More

California’s historic Murrieta Hot Springs has been purchased for US$50m (€51m, £44.4m) by Olympus Real Estate Group, a real estate investment and development firm with ... More

Located on an ancient hilltop in a private eight-hectare park in Italy, Palazzo Fiuggi Wellness Medical Retreat will open in May 2021. The new concept ... More

The GWI Hot Springs Initiative team has organised a live international soaking event to unite the world around the age-old tradition of hot springs bathing, ... More

With 24 soaking pools terraced along the San Juan River, The Springs Resort & Spa in Colorado has proclaimed the entire month of November as ... More

The long-abandoned cathedral-like Metropolitan Building – a relict from the Jazz Age – has been converted into the Element Detroit, a 110-room extended stay hotel. ... More

A number of leisure industry people have been recognised in this year's New Year Honours list. Sport Former England rugby captain and current chair of ... More

Jeremy Wright, the MP for Kenilworth and Southam, has been named Britain's new culture secretary following a tumultuous 24 hours for the Conservative government which ... More

Citizens should be empowered to play a much more active role in the design of the built environment as part of democratic society, Daniel Libeskind ... More

The architect David Marks, co-founder of Marks Barfield Architects, has died at the age of 64 following a long illness. Marks, best-known as the co-designer ... More

Further strengthening its ties with China, SeaWorld has elected Zhonghong Zhuoye Group's (ZZG) Yoshikazu Maruyama as its new chair, also naming Donald C. Robinson as ... More

SeaWorld chair David D’Alessandro’s position is under threat after he failed to win a majority of votes for his re-election at the company’s annual meeting. ... More

Sir David Adjaye has been named the world’s most influential architect by Time magazine. In a citation for the publication, Thelma Golden, the director and ... More

Gym franchise Anytime Fitness will open a 7,500sq ft (697sq m) club in Flemingate shopping complex in Beverley, East Yorkshire – its first in the ... More

Stadiums and arenas built for events such as the FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games should all be temporary, according to South African architect Ruben ... More

The Geffrye Museum of the Home in London will be comprehensively revamped in a bid to improve the experience of visitors to its Grade I ... More

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has announced it will transform the landmark Metropolitan Building in Detroit into 110-bedroom Element Hotel. Element Detroit at the Metropolitan ... More

An inquest has found that the 96 Liverpool fans who died during the 1989 Hillsborough disaster were killed unlawfully, bringing an end to the 27-year ... More

SeaWorld Entertainment has announced the departure of former CEO Jim Atchison from the company’s board, also appointing two veteran theme park industry executives – Ron ... More

Hotel brand Renaissance will open New York City’s “first digitally enhanced hotel” in Manhattan’s famous garment district in Q1 2016. Designed by local studio Jeffrey ... More

Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, the former FIFA Executive Committee member who took on incumbent Sepp Blatter at the FIFA presidential election earlier this year, ... More

Joel Manby has been appointed the new president and CEO of SeaWorld Entertainments, amid hopes the former Herschend Enterprises president and CEO can turn around ... More

Mons in Belgium and Pilsen in the Czech Republic have kicked off festivities for a year of special events after they were named joint Capital ... More

Jim Atchison, chief executive officer for SeaWorld Entertainment, is to step down from his role, effective from 15 January 2015. Atchison and SeaWorld have been ... More

Dr David Doyle, the St Kitts and Nevis ambassador to UNESCO, has said that more needs to be done in terms of training young people ... More