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31st March, 2016
| BBC News | Whatever floats your boat - the unstoppable growth of themed cruises
| Article about the growth in themed cruises, particularly cruises 'hosted' by bands. |
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14th January, 2016
| BBC News | Glastonbury Festival admits human waste pollution offence
| News story highlighting the negative impact of a large scale music and arts festival on the rural environment, when a slurry container leaked human sewage into the local river system. |
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12th August, 2015
| BBC News | Coastal visitor numbers 'drop 20%' | A report by the National Trust shows that visits to Britain's coast have dropped by 20% in the last 10 years. |
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21st February, 2015
| BBC News | The buses you choose because of their music | Feature about Nairobi's minibus taxis, which use music, art and entertainment to attract customers. |
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2nd February, 2015
| BBC News | Future airports could become hi-tech pleasure domes | Article exploring developments to make airport spaces more hi-tech and entertaining places. |
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29th January, 2015
| BBC News | Virtual reality content on
offer to airline passengers | Qantas is to begin offering in-flight entertainment via virtual reality headsets to passengers in first class on routes from Australia to the USA. |
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15th January, 2015
| BBC News | China: Beijing metro users access free e-books | The transport environment of Beijing's Metro, has been enhanced with freely accessible e-books accessed by QR codes with passenger smart phones. |
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14th January, 2015
| BBC News | Ryanair to test streaming movies to tablets
and phones
| European budget airline Ryanair are to begin trials of an in-flight movie and TV program streaming service, which broadcasts to passengers' mobile devices. The service may be at-cost, or free and paid by advertisements. |
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6th November, 2014
| BBC News | Estonia: Council plans Tallinn booze ban | The mayor of Tallinn (a destination popular with stag and hen parties) is planning on restricting the sale of alcohol from bars on Sundays and from shops at other times, to try and combat the harmful effects of drunkenness amongst tourists visiting the historic city.
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26th September, 2014
| BBC News | Airlines cleared for mobile phone use during flights | The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has ruled that electronic devices such as mobile phones are safe to use on flights. This will have implications for in-flight entertainment provision, with potentially a lesser onus to provide it, in place of making aircraft wi-fi ready.
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21st August, 2014
| The Guardian | Naked Italians spark protests against antics of drunken tourists in Barcelona
| News story from the urban environment, about resident anger in Barcelona, over drunken behaviour from tourists. |
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4th August, 2014
| DailyFinance | With new attractions, farmers nurture crops or tourists
| Article highlighting how the rural environment is benefiting from increases in tourism and entrepreneurial endeavours from farmers and business owners, who are keen to exploit this. | Link |
22nd July, 2014
| BBC News | Miami neighbourhood Wynwood revitalised with street art
| Case study of how art can be used to begin a cycle of revitalisation of decaying and ex-industrial urban areas. |
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5th May, 2014
| BBC News | Dreamland once more | Exploration of the rise, fall and rise again of Margate as a seaside resort, with a focus on entertainment visitor attractions as a key aspect of the seaside resort offering.
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18th March, 2014
| BBC News | Dubai: Metro system to be turned into
art gallery
| News of the decision in Dubai to turn the entire Metro system into one large art gallery with stations also serving as museums. |
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11th February, 2014
| BBC News | Singapore Airshow: The fight for eyeballs
in mid-air
| Feature examining the importance of in-flight entertainment to passengers, particularly on long haul routes, with examples given from various airlines of what their entertainment offering consists of. |
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10th February, 2014
| Blue & Green
Tomorrow | Urban sustainable tourism: being responsible in the city
| Feature exploring initiatives to attract visitors to urban centres to participate in activities that are sustainable and not harmful to the environment. |
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24th October, 2013
| BBC News | Kazoo protest against licence plans | News story about plans by Camden Borough council in London planning to regulate busking through licences. |
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| 30th September, 2013 | BBC News | Rail mobile internet speeds set to get faster in UK | News story about plans by the UK Department for Transport to roll out faster broadband across the UK rail network, so that by 2019 70% of train passengers have access to faster broadband while they travel by train.
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20th August, 2013 |
BBC News |
High-speed in-flight internet possible by 2014 |
News about development of Earth Stations on Mobile Platforms (ESOMPs), which will allow aircraft and ships to offer wi-fi networks at 10 times the current speeds, by communicating directly with broadband transmitting satellites.
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15th August, 2013 |
BBC News |
Can art change Margate's fortunes? |
News about the British seaside town of Margate going through a period of regeneration, which incorporates heritage, arts and culture into the town's tourism offering. |
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3rd May, 2013
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BBC News |
180 degree television for the home?
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Feature about new technology for the home, which features a television screen surrounded by a fish eye perspective 180 degree background, designed to be a more immersive television medium.
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9th March, 2013
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BBC News |
Star Trek 'holodeck' in the living room? |
Feature about immersive technologies such as 360 degree screens being adapted for home use. |
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| 12th February, 2013 |
BBC News |
'Every new car' connected to web by 2014 |
Feature looking at the future of technological developments within the automobile industry, which predicts that all new cars built from 2014 will have internet access within them. |
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7th November, 2012 |
BBC fast:track |
Can gadgets be safely used during take-off and landing? |
Video article which discusses the current ban on electronic devices being used during take-off and landing, many of these devices are being used by passengers for entertainment purposes.
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17th October, 2012
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BBC Radio 4 |
Is it 'too late' for the High Street? |
Online shopping looks set to further erode the High Street according to this Radio 4 discussion. |
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22nd September, 2012
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BBC News |
Town centres 'must adapt to online shopping' |
Feature exploring how urban centres will need to adapt more to changing demographics and the internet, including retail outlets being prepared for collection from online orders and more opportunities for social interaction and leisure. |
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19th July, 2012
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BBC News |
Seaside tourism hit by washout start to the Summer
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News video highlighting the devastating impacts that bad weather can have on seaside resort visitor numbers, and the knock-on effect that this can have for seaside entertainment and leisure based attractions.
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6th January, 2012
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BBC News |
'Europe's biggest' free wi-fi zone set for London |
Mobile operator O2 is to provide free internet to "millions" of residents and visitors in central London by launching Europe's largest free wi-fi zone.
The service will be rolled out across the boroughs of Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea in 2012. |
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14th October, 2011
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BBC News |
Blackpool: Why isn't it marketed to foreign tourists? |
Discussion feature about the British coastal resort of Blackpool, which has experienced both boom and near bust, but has now been invested in by the local council in order to upgrade the resort's offering.
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3rd October, 2011
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BBC Fast Track |
The future for in-flight movies |
Video highlighting some innovations in the travel environment, with the future of airlines in-flight entertainment being driven by integration with passengers' mobile devices.
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27th September, 2011
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BBC News |
Has the iPod made us anti-social? |
Discussion feature looking at the phenomenon of mass iPod use and how this has made social situations less social as people have become withdrawn into their own personal environment. |
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17th August, 2011
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BBC News
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Viewpoint: Why does regeneration create so many ugly buildings?
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Article discussing the merits of urban regeneration, and the drawbacks of so-called 'ugly' buildings that are often built as join retail / leisure facilities. he article highlights Leicester's National Space Centre as an example of good practice regeneration and development.
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16th August, 2011 |
BBC Click |
Why spend £1,000 on headphones? |
Discussion feature analysing the rising popularity of 'luxury' headphones, as more people spend longer listening to music on the move. |
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11th July, 2011
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BBC Click
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Home technology of the future revealed
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Video examining some of the future innovations that are likely to continue to transform the home entertainment environment.
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17th April, 2011
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BBC News
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Close-Up: Pop music on the Brussels metro
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Video feature about music being played on the Brussels metro to help make the travel environment a more enjoyable experience for commuters.
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25th January, 2011
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BBC fast:track
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Whitby - the seaside resort Goths flock to
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Case study of the North Yorkshire seasidetown of Whitby, which due to Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' novel, has been imortalised to horror fans, and has been attracting goths for the past three decades.
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2nd July, 2010
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BBC
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Businessman use Scalextric at Manchester Airport
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News story about a Scalextric racing car game being mde one of the offerings at the newly opened Manchester Airport Executive Lounge, thus demonstrating the importance of entertainment in the travel environment.
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28th June, 2010
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BBC
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British seaside tourism growing
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News story about the recent growth of the British seaside, which is booming in the early Summer good weather. Seaside resorts are major employers locally with jobs contributing £3.6bn to the economy, as more of us head back to traditional British resorts.
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28th June, 2010
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BBC
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West seaside employers are big economy boost
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News video about Weston-Super-Mare's seaside employment being a boost to the local economy, in the face of many Briton's choosing to holiday abroad.
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17th June, 2010 |
BBC |
Blackpool named favourite UK seaside resort by Which? |
News story relating to Blackpool topping a Which? survey. Some 6.7% of 4,217 adults surveyed preferred it, ahead of Brighton in Sussex, which had 5.9% of the vote. |
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25th May, 2010 |
BBC |
Italy unveils first private high speed train
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News video demonstrating the use of entertainment in the transport environment (one of the nine distinct entertainment environments), namely television and Internet as a selling point on Italy's new high speed trains. |
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