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Daily news & jobs: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk Westfield plans indoor ski facility


Australian retail developer Westfield is to submit plans for the UK’s biggest indoor ski facility in Stratford, London, UK which is double the size of anything existing in the UK. Its expected size is being com- pared to the giant Ski Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Westfield Stratford City will


submit a planning application to the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) by the end of the summer. The project could cost up to £200m and will be ready for 2015. The site will provide


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Te planned development will include runs of varying difficulty


around 20,000sq m of piste for customers to enjoy, with skiing areas covered in thousands of tonnes of real snow. Te site, already being labelled the Stratford dome, will be double the


size of other British snow centres such as those in Hemel Hempstead and Milton Keynes. It will feature snowboard facilities and an ice-skating rink. Details: http://lei.sr?a=H9I5w


Culture Programme ahead of 2014 Commonwealth Games


Te countdown to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is to be marked by a 12-month cultural programme one year before the games kick-off. Culture 2014, which begins later this month, will see theatre, dance, music


and comedy events held around Scotland in celebration of the Games. The 2014 cultural programme is a col-


laboration between the games’ organising committee, Creative Scotland and Glasgow Life. Details: http://lei.sr?a=l0K8V


Ancestral tourism – worth £2.4bn


Scottish tourism businesses are being encour- aged to take advantage of the ancestral tourism market in the run up to 2014, when Scotland will host several major events including the Ryder Cup, the Commonwealth Games and Homecoming Scotland 2014 – a year of cele- bration for those with Scottish roots. The ancestral tourism market has the


potential to grow from 800,000 visitors a year to 4.3m in five years’ time, according to tourism agency, VisitScotland. An estimated 50m people living outside


Scotland were either born in the country or have Scottish ancestry, with the ances- tral market estimated to be worth £2.4bn over the next five years. A new guide, pub- lished by Tourism Intelligence Scotland (TIS) - Ancestral Tourism in Scotland - has been made available to any business that registers


24 New events are being created to showcase Scottish culture


on the Tourism Intelligence website and will provide tourism operators with the latest intel- ligence on the nation’s ancestral markets. Te guide also offers suggestions on how to


help businesses gather information on ances- tral landmarks. Details: http://lei.sr?a=I6a8b


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