dubailand news

The oldest zoo on the Arabian Peninsula is set to close this doors this weekend as the Dubai Municipality prepares to move its animals from ... More

DXB Entertainments, owner of Dubai Parks and Resorts, has named Arab Media Group (AMG) chief executive Mohamed Almulla as its new CEO. Almulla replaces Raed ... More

Union Properties has reinstated pre-recession plans for a Formula One amusement park. The park has been made more affordable by reallocating half of the land ... More

Electrosonic has appointed the experienced Tony Miceli as an executive consultant working with both the Entertainment Sales and Design Consulting divisions in its Orlando office. ... More

The Mall of the World – a giant indoor ‘city’ under construction in Dubai – will have its own version of Oxford Street and Broadway, ... More

IMG Theme Park, the Dubai company behind the under-construction IMG Worlds of Adventure theme park, has secured AED1.2bn ($327m, £195m, €236m) in financing. Abu Dhabi ... More

Former Disneyland Paris vice president Christian Perdrier is to be the new chief executive at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, UK. His appointment is part of ... More

Middle Eastern investment company Union Properties has put the brakes on the construction of its Formula One World theme park in Dubailand. The multimillion-pound F1-X ... More

Construction work has begun on the AED1.5bn (US$0.4bn, E0.31bn, £0.25bn) Palmarosa Spa community in Dubailand in the Middle East. Palmarosa will consist of 217 villas ... More

The fourth annual Vision XS Experience Conference is to take place this year at the Oxford Belfry Hotel, Milton Common, near Thame, Oxfordshire, UK, on ... More

Merlin Entertainments Group is to open its first Legoland outside North America and Europe after agreeing a deal with Dubai-based developer Tatweer. The three million ... More

US theme park operator Six Flags has agreed a one-year exclusivity deal giving Bahrain-based Gulf Finance House the right to licence the Six Flags brand ... More

Hollywood studio Dreamworks Animations SKG has announced plans to build a theme park in Dubai. It will be the company's first move into the facilities ... More

Developer Tatweer – part of Dubai Holding – has unveiled its AED 8bn (£1bn, US$2.2bn, 1.6bn euro) Universal City Dubailand complex in Dubai, UAE. The ... More

London’s Natural History Museum has launched a Planning and Design Consultancy (PDC) to assist organisations throughout the world in the development of natural science attractions, ... More

Construction work is set to begin shortly on the Great Dubai Wheel project in Dubai following Dubai Municipality approval of the attraction’s masterplan. The 185m ... More

Developer Tatweer – part of Dubai Holding – has unveiled plans for an AED106bn (£15.4bn, 22.5bn euro, US$28.8bn) mixed-use project called Bawadi in the mixed-use ... More

Middle Eastern development company Union Properties has signed an agreement with the Formula One Administration (FOA) team to build a US$360m (£206m, 301m euros) Formula ... More

Ground has been broken on the site of the US$3.8bn (£2.16bn, 3.15bn euro) mixed-use Legends in Dubailand scheme. Located within the Dubailand development, Legends will ... More

Plans for a new US$1.9bn (£1bn, 1.5bn euro) theme park resort based on a cruise ship has been unveiled in Dubai. Called Aqua Dunya, the ... More