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AM2 10Th June 2015 Issue 28 Find great staff TM The news & jobs magazine from Attractions Management AM2 AM2.jobs 10 JUNE 2015 ISSUE 28 Asian market booming but fears for post-World Cup Brazil Halfway through his one-year said Arteaga. “China is seeing a stint at the helm of IAAPA, fantastic rate of development and Gerardo Arteaga has praised IAAPA is focusing on that.” the Asian attractions market, When AM2 previously spoke while raising concerns about the to Arteaga in November, the new Brazil, which has seen a notable IAAPA chief – who is also general decrease in visitor numbers and manager of Fantasilandia in investment since the conclusion Santiago, Chile – hinted that Latin of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. America could become a “huge Speaking exclusively to market” for the attractions middle AM2, the IAAPA chair revealed class once the region stabilises. his plans for the six months On the whole, Arteaga believes leading up to IAAPA 2015 in signs are positive, but Brazil November, praising the Asian remains a concern. After numbers market for solid performances. were boosted by last year’s World “With the growth we are Cup, the country has seen a sharp seeing in Asia, I will be taking decline in activity, according to a deeper look at that region, Arteaga, who expressed “surprise” starting with the Asian at the decrease in activity. Gerardo Arteaga was named IAAPA chair in November last year Attractions Expo in Hong Kong,” More: http://lei.sr?a=u3M9j_A UNESCO warns Australia Merlin reopens Alton Towers after Smiler crash over Great Barrier Reef TWITTER/@KIRSTYTHEWILD Alton Towers has reopened after a six-day The Great Barrier Reef’s heritage status closure following an accident on the park’s could be in jeopardy after UNESCO Smiler, which, left four people seriously injured, revealed it was considering listing one girl having to have her leg amputated. the natural wonder as “in danger”, The park reopened on 8 June, having something that could potentially been closed after a carriage full of people cripple the area’s tourism industry. on the rollercoaster collided with an empty With increasingly milky waters one, injuring 16 and hospitalising five. and low-quality coral, areas of the The Smiler is subject to a legal prohibition reef are a shell of their former selves. notice until action is taken to deal with the 16 people were on the ride when it crashed Granted World Heritage status in cause of the crash. In addition to the Smiler, 1981, the reef – which is home to more Merlin has temporarily closed Thorpe Park’s In a statement, Merlin CEO Nick than 1,500 different species of fish – is Saw and Chessington World of Adventures’ Varney said: “It is an accident that overdeveloped, polluted and damaged by Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rides. Spinball should not have happened and we are climate change, according to UNESCO. – also at Alton Towers – is shut until enhanced determined that it will never happen again.” Continued on back cover safety protocols have been implemented. 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Rogers, speaking exclusively More: http://lei.sr?a=R2r8d_A 2 Read AM2 online: AM2.jobs/digital Twitter: @AM2jobs ©Cybertrek 2015 Sign up for your free digital subscription to AM2 magazine: AM2.jobs/subs £27m Puy du Fou attraction coming to England Puy du Fou is bringing its unique style of grandiose live entertainment to the UK after gaining approval from local authorities for the development of Eleven Arches, with the £27m (US$41.4m, €36.7m) attraction coming to the northeast of England in June 2016. Having won backing for the project in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, the team behind the development view the multi-million pound visitor attraction as the key part of the wider regeneration of Bishop Auckland and the surrounding area. “We’ve entered into an artistic partnership with Puy du Fou and over the last 24 months their creative team has worked with us and they are now standing ready to help us deliver the show that we built and wrote together,” said Anne-Isabella Daulon, CEO of Eleven Arches, speaking at the press launch this week. Puy Du Fou’s unique style of live-action entertainment is coming to the UK in 2016 “Profits from the show will be reinvested back into the show. We hope to create a long-lasting park in France, the Eleven Arches night show Auckland Castle. It will tell the story of 2,000 regeneration loop based on this model.” will be run up to 30 times a year, with the years of history – starting in Roman times Modelled on the success of the 90-minute extravaganza – which uses 1,000 and going all the way up to World War II. not-for-profit Puy du Fou historical theme trained volunteers (see page 20) – to be held at More: http://lei.sr?a=w3v4J_A Anonymous hackers publish private data after breaching JAZA websites Days after voting to ban the use of dolphins captured during the controversial Taiji dolphin hunts, the SANAA will design the new gallery Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums SANAA wins bid to design (JAZA) revealed that AU$450m Sydney gallery notorious hacking group Anonymous had stolen the Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa’s phone numbers and email vision for Sydney’s Art Gallery of New addresses of its members, as South Wales will be realised after well as other sensitive data.
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