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A resort set between lava and water
The design of this volcanic resort proposes a relationship of contrasts between architecture, water, and landscape.

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When the wind and the landscape shape a hotel
Wind, shade, earth and water: the architectural themes of this holiday resort, in perfect harmony with the landscape.

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Multiple transformations of private swimming pools
Traditional swimming pools are giving way to infinity pools, overflow pools, organic-style pools and beach-style pools, amongst others.

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Days go by

Just like the clouds

But the memories remain.

That’s what we take care of,

Just the same as at the spectacular water park

in Hyatt Ziva Cap Cana, Dominican Republic.

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Images: Hyatt / Dapictures Team / Jacques Barrette
Music: Asher Fulero

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The Río Lágrimas,

the lazy river at El Dorado Park water park

in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

A lazy river to remember,

powered by Amusement Logic technology.

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Music: Doug Maxwell

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Hotels around the world: Hotel Heureka, Venice, Italy
“It was a great challenge… to make an old, listed building possible for the use as a hotel in a modern world”.

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The Final Frontier of Leisure Travel 💫👽 Your Ultimate Guide to Galactic Getaways

Your guide to Orbital, Lunar, & Martian Holidays 👽 Here are the trips of a lifetime that are closer than you think.

#FinalFrontier #Leisure #Travel #Cosmic #Getaways #Space #Orbital #Lunar #Martian #Holidays
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Digital tourism in Luoyang, China
Immersive spaces where groups of people share the same digital experience without the need for any physical interface.

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Dreamland Aquapark and Amusement Logic

Tune your day in United Arab Emirates.

Fun and water any day of the week.

At the first and largest water park in the region.

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Hotels around the world: Al Moudira, Luxor, Egypt
“With the feel of a grand country house (...), and surrounded by ten hectares of palm groves and exotic gardens”.

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Interview with Ahmed Al Jassim, Area Operations Manager at Six Flags Qiddiya City
“From each company, I learned different strengths, such as structure, speed, flexibility, customer focus…”

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WHAT GOES AAAAAA…AAAAAARGH SPLASH? The thread about the Commonwealth Pool’s troublesome flumes

Like being hurled at breakneck speed down a narrow sewage pipe

Edinburgh Evening News description of the Twister

River Rapids. Vortex. Twister. Stingray. If you know, you know. And if you don’t, you weren’t fortunate enough to be growing up in Edinburgh for a blessed decade beginning in the late 1980s. I am referring of course to the legendary flumes at the city’s Royal Commonwealth Pool. When they opened, it was proudly boasted that the Commie (to give it its proper name) had the longest, largest and most expensive in Europe. They have been gone now for more than twice as long as they were with us, but for those of who were there they remain a fond memory, tainted by feelings of loss. Ask any of us about them and you will certainly hear either of two anecdotes: going head-first down the Stingray or the hidden razor blades. One of these is most likely apocryphal, the other definitely is. These are the reminiscences that abound on Facebook, but rarely do you hear the tale of the endless problems and the huge financial scandal they caused. This was a scandal that brought the Commie itself to the verge of financial ruin and possible privatisation. In well established Threadinburgh style, this is that tale, from its optimistic beginning to its ignominious end.

The flumes scheme was the brainchild of Bernard (Ben) Connolly, newly-appointed director of Edinburgh District Council’s Recreation Department. Connolly was nicknamed “Rambo” by the Evening News on account of his uncompromising management style. He found himself in charge of swimming facilities that were under-patronised and lacked a commercial mindset. Ever since the city had lost its open-air leisure bathing pool at Portobello in 1979, the unrivalled jewel in its crown was the Commie. But it was a swimmer’s swimming pool, a very staid, traditional vision of what a pool should be. Connolly was determined to change that. He would drag the place right into the Eighties and turn it into a money-spinner along the way. And he knew just how to do it.

In 1985 Scotland’s first flumes were installed at their Magnum Leisure Centre in Irvine at a cost of £375,000. They were so successful that they paid for themselves in just 8 months. Could not Edinburgh do bigger and better? The Council were persuaded it could, and set aside £650,000 in August 1986 for the creation of “a water chute” at the Commie.

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Things progressed quickly and tenders were sought in September for a complete design and build package. It was optimistically hoped work would be completed within a year, but the dotted line was not signed upon until October 1987. By this time the costs had almost doubled to £1,250,000, which was for a ten year public-private partnership with Whitewater Leisure of York. This deal saw the private partner finance and construct the flumes. The public provided the land, access to the pool and took on all running costs and maintenance liabilities. Whitewater remained the owner of the facility and would be paid over £250,000 per annum for five years until the construction debt was cleared, plus an annual £10,000 “licensing fee” for ten years. At this point the flumes would have reached the end of their designed lifespan and would transfer to the Council’s ownership.

This was the early days of such public-private contracts but even then the terms in them were punitive: the city was legally bound to maintain the flumes and keep them in operation, a failure to do so could trigger an exit clause that would force them to pay off the outstanding debt and demolish them at their own expense! But with a designed capacity of 2,500 riders per day, Connolly personally predicted that 250,000 a year would flock to the flumes (more than half the population of Edinburgh at that time!) This would result in 2.25 million tickets sold per year and return an income of £450,000. With financials like that, they couldn’t lose. Could they?

The proposal was not without its detractors. The serious swimmers felt it was lowering the tone of an institution like the Royal Commonwealth Pool. Others felt it was a misplaced investment; the mid-1980s were a difficult time for the city’s pools and there was a rolling programme of daily closures to cope with staff shortages. The proponents carried the day however; they were determined that pools had to move with the times, to appeal to a wider audience and to pay their way. Unfortunately, nobody chose to scrutinise those financial projections closely, something which would come back to haunt the whole scheme.

As is typical for any Edinburgh Grand Projet, not only were the financial projections iffy and not only had the costs vastly inflated, so too had the timeline slipped. Work did not begin until November 1987, some months after the hoped-for opening. The Evening News was excited at the prospect however and printed a rather breathless and confused description of the coming rides:

…a 130-metre corkscrew; a 60-metre high velocity speed aqua mania slide; the vortex, a 95-metre corkscrew ride which plunges into darkness and the “Whitewater Rapids”, a raft ride.

Edinburgh Evening News, November 4th 1987

In April 1988 the Dundee Courier provided a rather more coherent description which named the individual flumes:

• The River Rapids, a 120-metre rubber ring slide “simulating the experience of a white water canoe descent down a mountain river“
• The Twister, a 54-inch diameter spiral tube
• The Vortex, a 100-metre ride that took “the courageous through a sequence of dips and turns from light into darkness and through a waterfall“
• And the Stingray: the “ultimate challenge“. A high-velocity tube with a freefall gradient and a 50 metre hairpin bend, with a ride time of just four seconds and an estimated top speed of 40mph.

As the 40-foot high flume tower rose out of the ground at the rear of the pool, Connolly boasted the facility would be the safest in Europe (“if not in the world“). Councillor Paulo Vestri (Chairman of the Recreation Committee) proudly claimed they were “the largest water slide complex in Europe” and would “become one of the major tourist attractions in the city“.

Opening was due to take place in June 1988, in time for the school holidays. However when the royal inspection tour of them was made by HRH the Princess Royal on the 28th of that month they were embarrassingly incomplete. Councillor Vestri put construction delays down to unexpectedly hard bedrock but he was “confident that the flume [would] be a tremendous success“. Minor cracks and leaks were discovered during testing, but opening was finally set for Friday September 16th. Julie White, aged ten, from Linlithgow won a competition to be the first to ride them.

This was the era of the branded municipal leisure pool and so the Commie’s flumes were given a marketing name: Nautilus (I sincerely doubt anyone in the city ever called them so). They would be open whenever the pool was, so long as you were over for the age of eight, four and a half feet tall or more and could swim. There was no upper age restriction. Rides were charged at 20p a shot, bought in lots of five or ten tickets (“thrills don’t come much cheaper“). They were an instant hit. Over 88 thousand brave souls hurled themselves down them in the first three months. If these numbers could be maintained then expectations would be more than exceeded. After just seven months, on April 21st 1989, the millionth ticket was sold. Lucky Lee McKendry, 11, of Loanhead was presented with a teddy bear to mark the occasion. It was also found that patronage of the pool tripled when the flumes were running.

On the face of it, everything seemed to be looking rosy. But inevitably, trouble was not far away. In fact it took less than a week to appear. It transpired that insufficient staff had been hired and it had taken seven-day-a-week overtime from the existing workforce to keep the flumes open. This was unsustainable and after just five days the opening hours had to be cut back; 230PM to 8PM on weekdays and 10AM to 4PM on weekends. The Council put the blame on postal strikes having delayed the recruitment process, but staffing issues would be a problem that would never go away. After a week’s closure to repair a faulty pump, when they re-opened for business on October 10th enough staff had been found to return to full-time running.

A further day was lost in October after loose bolts were found in the structure, the Recreation Department assured users through the medium of the Evening News that the flumes were “absolutely safe“. Some patrons had complained that they had felt “dizzy” or “sick” after their experience, prompting Conservative Councillor Ian Berry to table a series of questions about flume safety to the District Council (if he had taken the trouble to try the flumes for himself then I can assure you he too would have felt dizzy or sick afterwards. It was an intrinsic part of the experience!) . Berry admitted that he did not know of anyone being injured, Councillor Vestri replied that a couple of torn swimming costumes were the only reported problems.

The flumes closed again for a week in June 1989 to allow for the ventilation system to be upgraded: it had been found that staff working on them had been exposed to excessive amounts of chlorine. Further bad news would come in August; after less than a year of business the forecast profit had materialised as a large operating loss. of £244,651 had been run up,. This was a quarter of the entire budget deficit of the city’s Recreation Department. It might now take five, rather than four years, to pay off the private contractor as the initial forecast cost had increased by almost half to £1.49 million.

The problems continued to pile up like a bunch of teenagers on the River Rapids. They were shut down again for a week in October so that experts could “probe a technical fault” with the water temperature. The District Council was forced to admit to the ‘News that their show-piece attraction had been out of action for 20 days that year because of technical problems and staffing issues. Councillor Steve Cardownie, Vice Chairman of the Recreation Committee, promised that any operating losses due to technical problems with the flumes themselves would be pursued with Whitewater.

Closure came again in June 1990 and once more it was the persistent staffing problems. This time the root cause was industrial action on the part of five members of the NUPE union who worked in the flumes’ plant room. Their Branch Convenor claimed that various issues around staffing levels and grading had been unresolved for 21 months. They staged a two day strike within a month of the approaching summer holidays as a warning shot. When the District did not come to terms, they walked out again at the beginning of August. They returned after three weeks, only for work-to-rule action to be taken by NALGO members. This kept the flumes were out of action until September 5th, resulting in £25,000 in lost revenue. A tumultuous spell was brought to a close at the end of that month with a further day’s closure as a result of Chlorine fumes.

The disruption of that summer capped a disappointing year for the flumes. Patronage was down by 50,000 on the previous year; from 138 thousand in the first half of 1989 to just 87 thousand – 30% below expectations. General custom at the pool itself was also down 10% over the same period. Councillor Berry placed the blame in the hands of pool management and on a lack of car parking. Such was the scale of the financial problems that when the District Council came in October 1990 to set its budget for the next financial year, they gave serious consideration to shutting the two-year old attraction.

Ultimately such drastic action was not taken, but anyone hoping the flumes would now catch a break would be proved sorely wrong. Come March they were closed again for a day due to a “chemical imbalance” in their water. A new scandal hit in May when it emerged that a number of Recreation Department files, including documents relating to the flumes, had “gone missing“. Liberal Democrat councillor Donald Gorrie wrote to the authority’s chief executive saying he was “most concerned” that there were “significant gaps” in the paperwork. This ultimately led Strathclyde Police to open a fraud investigation into Glasgow District Council‘s Recreation Department, now headed up by Bernard Connolly and his deputy in Edinburgh, Robert Hulbert. This would result in Hulbert being removed from his job for gross misconduct: he was the undeclared majority shareholder of a leisure company that was bidding for local government contracts.

Four more days were lost in June and October, blamed on staff illness and holidays, followed by an entire week when “parasitic” bacteria was detected in the water. This latter closure alone cost £11,000 in lost revenue. Councillor Moira Knox, the Conservative recreation spokesperson, was reported by the Evening News to be “furious“:

One of these days [the flumes] will close and be reopened as a monument to the Labour Party’s mismanagement of the city’s affairs.

Councillor Moira Knox, quoted in the Evening News, 30th October 1991

Come the end of 1991 and the flumes’ finances had reached a crisis point: it was predicted losses that financial year would widen to at least £456,000. The fact of the matter was that the initial ridership projections had been “grossly over-estimated“. It was implied by Councillor Vestri that they had been fundamentally made up by Connolly and Hulbert. Patronage was less than half of what had been hoped for and the income didn’t even cover half the running costs. This alarmed the Eeninoo to such an extent that it created a special flume-themed graph to illustrate the scale of the issue. With the Council’s own Leith Waterworld leisure pool forecast to open the following year in direct competition (and already projected to operate at a £1m annual loss from the get go), Councillor Knox demanded that the council sell the facility at the Commie, or even the entire pool, to a private operator. She tabled a motion to this effect at a meeting of the Council but it was not supported.

The District Council decided to try and sort things out once and for all and at the start of 1992 brought in a troubleshooting new manager at the Commie, Ken Harvey. By this time the flumes had sunk deeper into the red, with losses projected to break £1 million that year. When interviewed on the subject, Harvey replied:

No-one has said the flumes are a duff product. All they have said is they are not making money. Hopefully, we will be able to change that.

Edinburgh Evening News, 2nd January 1992

Harvey hoped that proper marketing and dynamic pricing, to encourage use in otherwise quiet periods, would help to turn things around. But he was hardly in the job for a few months though when in March the NUPE union sued the District. They claimed three of its members were suffering from the occupational illness of “flume flu“. Symptoms were said to include breathing difficulties, sore eyes and runny noses and it was alleged that the Council had been made aware of the risk but had ignored it.

And then in May 1992 Leith Waterworld opened, boasting two flumes, a river rapid, a wave pool, a whirl pool, and a whole host of other fun features. This scheme had actually been mooted since before the Commie got its flumes, but had a long and troubled gestation period. The fact of the matter was that there were only so many children to go around in Edinburgh and the new attraction drew them away from the Commie in their tens of thousands. Not only was the Council in direct competition with itself, this was the golden era of the municipal fun pool. Central Scotland was awash with exciting destinations: the Magnum in Irvine; Perth Leisure Pool; Aquatec in Motherwell; the Mariner in Falkirk; the Time Capsule Monklands in Coatbridge; Bubbles in Livingston. What a time it was to be a certain age.

The bad press kept on coming. In 1993 the Commie was one of ten pools in the UK that failed in a flume safety survey published by the Consumer Association. This claimed there were inadequate safety guidelines, that rules were not being enforced (e.g. the legendary head-first descents), that there was a lack of supervision, poor lighting in exit pools that meant someone stuck at the bottom might not be seen and that poor design meant that users had to cross eachother’s paths at the exit pool.

On April 1st 1996, Edinburgh District Council was replaced by the new unitary authority, the City of Edinburgh Council. CEC found that it had inherited a poisoned chalice when it came to flumes. Not only was Leith Waterworld leaking (both money and water!), at the Commie they found the operating account was £1m in the red and the flumes at the end of their operational life. One was permanently out of action, two were being kept going intermittently on a wing and a prayer. To compound matters, they were legally obliged to keep them running and still did not actually own them! Despite their predecessor body having paid Whitewater over £2 million, they had failed to fully clear off the financial liabilities. An emergency report was tabled to the Council outlining options for their future. In bold print this stated “The status quo is not an option aavilable to the Council“. The options presented ranged from closure and removal of the flumes at a cost of £363,000 through to buying out Whitewater and refurbishing, and modernising them at £460,000.

A private meeting was held to discuss the future of the flumes at which it was agreed to buy out Whitewater for £100,000 and patch the flumes up sufficiently for a further report to be written on their future. More problems came in 1998 when the British Medical Association published a report into flume safety, claiming they posed a danger for people who were not “fit and resilient“. Professor David Bell of Middlesex University claimed that the level of risk from using flumes was higher than that for contact sports. The Commonwealth Pool strongly refuted that there was any risk from their facility. But the end was nigh and after it was found that the bill to modernise the flumes and restore them to full operation would exceed £750,000 the plug was finally pulled.

On Monday March 13th 2000, the Council’s Recreation Committee unanimously voted to close and remove the flumes at a cost of £150,000. And that was that. The Committee’s convenor, Councillor Steve Cardownie, told the Evening News:

We have to cut our losses. We have to shut it down as it is out-dated. It’s not dangerous at the moment but it does need a substantial amount of money spent on it which we can’t justify.

Evening News, 13th March 2000

Ironically, at the same meeting the Committee was made aware that Leith Waterworld would have to close for a year due to the failure of the adhesive used in attaching its tiles and rust in the flume structure (it ended up being closed for twice as long). The flumes at the Commie were removed in 2001, although the tower at the rear lasted – disconnected from the main building – until it was removed in 2008. The architecture critics approved. It was a bitter final irony for fans of flumes in Edinburgh that when Waterworld too closed in 2012, it was to help pay for the renovation of the Commie’s diving pool ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth games. Tradition had triumphed over fun.

Thank you to the staff at the Edinburgh & Scottish Collection of Edinburgh Central Library for their help in finding pamphlets and reports on the subject of the flumes in the depths of their stores. Curiously, the official box file of archive material submitted there by Edinburgh Leisure contained not one single mention of the flumes. Perhaps it was a saga they’d rather forget all about…

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Flotarium, a new attraction at water parks
This solution establishes a separate wellness zone within the water park, expanding the offering and enhancing its appeal.

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Glow-in-the-dark pools: a new night-time experience
With fibre optics, LED lights and photoluminescent materials in the flooring, waterfalls and backdrops, the water becomes a visual spectacle.

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The use of theming in climbing experiences
Unlike standard climbing walls, artificial rock allows geological formations from real landscapes to be recreated.

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Campismo Colina do Sol and Amusement Logic
Let yourself be carried away by the laid-back rhythm of summer at this campground in the Serra dos Mangues, São Martinho do Porto, Portugal.

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Campismo Colina do Sol and Amusement Logic
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An experience that captures the local essence
An interior design project inspired by an interpretation of local culture and forms, as well as the local climate and landscape.

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🏺 #localessence #interiordesign #culture #landscape #inspiration #architecture #leisure #essencelocale #designintérieur #esencialocal #interiorismo #cultura #arquitectura #ocio #loisirs #amusementlogic

Exquisite interior design: XO Cape Arnna, Fethiye, Turkey
“Orchestrated design”; when “architecture, like music, can form a spatial symphony”.

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🏛️ #xoearnna #fethiye #turkey #interiordesign #architecture #tourism #leisure #turquie #designintérieur #architecture #tourisme #loisirs #turquía #interiorismo #arquitectura #turismo #ocio

Is It Ethical to Go on a Safari in India? A Responsible Traveler’s Guide to Wildlife Tourism in 2026

https://indiasafaristrends.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/is-it-ethical-to-go-on-a-safari-in-india-a-responsible-travelers-guide-to-wildlife-tourism-in-2026/

https://www.fogolf.com/1255131/australia-golf-cart-market-expands-as-eco-friendly-mobility-and-leisure-infrastructure-gain-momentum/ Australia Golf Cart Market Expands as Eco-Friendly Mobility and Leisure Infrastructure Gain Momentum #and #as #Australia #cart #EcoFriendly #Expands #GAIN #Golf #GolfNews #Infrastructure #leisure #market #Mobility #momentum

Children’s water park at a luxury resort hotel in the Maldives
Design of a children’s water play area that blends seamlessly into the overall landscape of the holiday resort.

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💧 #waterpark #kids #luxuryresort #design #tourism #leisure #parcaquatique #enfants #hôteltheluxe #conception #tourisme #loisirs #maldivas #parqueacuático #infantil #hoteldelujo #diseño #turismo #ocio #amusementlogic

Children’s water park at a luxury resort hotel in the Maldives
Design of a children’s water play area that blends seamlessly into the overall landscape of the holiday resort.

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💧 #waterpark #kids #luxuryresort #design #tourism #leisure #parcaquatique #enfants #hôteltheluxe #conception #tourisme #loisirs #maldivas #parqueacuático #infantil #hoteldelujo #diseño #turismo #ocio #amusementlogic

Children’s water park at a luxury resort hotel in the Maldives
Design of a children’s water play area that blends seamlessly into the overall landscape of the holiday resort.

👉 Discover MUCH MORE and SUBSCRIBE to our summary of news and updates through link: https://amusementlogic.com/company-news/childrens-water-park-at-a-luxury-resort-hotel-in-the-maldives/

💧 #waterpark #kids #luxuryresort #design #tourism #leisure #parcaquatique #enfants #hôteltheluxe #conception #tourisme #loisirs #maldivas #parqueacuático #infantil #hoteldelujo #diseño #turismo #ocio #amusementlogic

Children’s water park at a luxury resort hotel in the Maldives
Design of a children’s water play area that blends seamlessly into the overall landscape of the holiday resort.

👉 Discover MUCH MORE and SUBSCRIBE to our summary of news and updates through link: https://amusementlogic.com/company-news/childrens-water-park-at-a-luxury-resort-hotel-in-the-maldives/

💧 #waterpark #kids #luxuryresort #design #tourism #leisure #parcaquatique #enfants #hôteltheluxe #conception #tourisme #loisirs #maldivas #parqueacuático #infantil #hoteldelujo #diseño #turismo #ocio #amusementlogic

Interview with William Rodríguez López, Costa Rica’s Minister of Tourism
“Out of every ten tourists who visit us, six return. Of those six, three return seven times or more.”

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🎙️ #costarica #tourism #interview #leadership #leisure #tourisme #entretien #leadership #loisirs #turismo #entrevista #liderazgo #ocio

Sirène Holidays Camping Clubs (full screen version)
Each at their own pace, the staff at @camping_hippocampe, @campingleboisdevalmarie and @campinglasirene welcome a new season.

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Music: Alex Hamlin, www.youtube.com/@AlexHamlinMusic and Ezra Lipp, www.youtube.com/@Ezralipp

🏕️ #camping #newseason #hospitality #tourism #leisure #campsite #nouvellesaison #hôtellerie #tourisme #loisirs #nuevatemporada #hostelería #turismo #amusementlogic

Hotels around the world: Houshi Ryokan, Komatsu, Japan
Four wings surrounding a Japanese garden of moss, red pines and centuries-old cedars are named after the four seasons.

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🏯 #architecture #tourism #leisure #japon #hôtel #jardinjaponais #architecture #tourisme #loisirs #japón #hotel #jardínjaponés #arquitectura #turismo #houshiryokan #komatsu #japon

Camping La Sirène and Amusement Logic
Work completed and handed over, campsite open, families ready to live happy moments!

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Image: @campinglasirene
Music: Golden Palm Recorders - www.youtube.com/@GoldenPalmRecorders

🏕️ #campsite #family #happymoments #tourism #leisure #camping #famille #momentsheureux #tourisme #loisirs #familias #momentosfelices #turismo #ocio #amusementlogic

Architecture and landscape, an efficient alliance
A building that forms part of the landscape and provides pedestrian walkways, recreational areas and viewing points.

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🏞️ #architecture #landscape #design #sustainability #publicspace #tourism #leisure #paysage #durabilité #espacepublic #tourisme #loisirs #arquitectura #paisaje #diseño #sostenibilidad #turismo #ocio #amusementlogic

Interview with Alejandro Beneit, General Manager of BIOPARC Aquarium of Gijón
“Zoos and aquariums (…) we must lead in animal welfare and conservation.”

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🐠 #zoo #animalparc #bioparc #aquarium #gijón #animalwelfare #conservation #tourism #leisure #parcanimalier #bienêtreanimal #tourisme #loisirs #zoologico #acuario #bienestaranimal #conservación #turismo #ocio

A quotation from Cicero

For men ought not to be so elated by the dignity of the affairs which they have undertaken to manage, as to have no regard to their ease; nor ought they to dwell with fondness on any sort of ease which is inconsistent with dignity.
 
[Neque enim rerum gerendarum dignitate homines ecferri ita convenit ut otio non prospiciant, neque ullum amplexari otium quod abhorreat a dignitate.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 45 / sec. 98 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #prosestio #dignity #indolence #leisure #publicservice #recreation #retirement #sloth #worklifebalance #idleness #laziness #selfimportance #prestige

Hotels of the world: Kimpton Bem Budapest, Hungary
“There's a clear sense of individual identity in each space. You'll remember exactly which room you stayed in”.

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🏨 #architecture #hospitality #interior #kimpton #budapest #hungary #hotel #design #tourism #leisure #hongrie #hôtel #tourisme #loisirs #interieur #hungría #diseño #turismo #ocio #arquitectura #interiorismo #hosteleria

Hotels of the world: Kimpton Bem Budapest, Hungary
“There's a clear sense of individual identity in each space. You'll remember exactly which room you stayed in”.

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🏨 #architecture #hospitality #interior #kimpton #budapest #hungary #hotel #design #tourism #leisure #hongrie #hôtel #tourisme #loisirs #interieur #hungría #diseño #turismo #ocio #arquitectura #interiorismo #hosteleria

The Final Frontier of Leisure Travel 🚀 Your Ultimate Guide to Cosmic Getaways

Your guide to Orbital, Lunar, & Martian Holidays 👽 Here are the trips of a lifetime that are closer than you think.
https://www.sandspice.com/Final Frontier Space Holidays
#FinalFrontier #Leisure #Travel #Cosmic #Getaways #Space #Orbital #Lunar #Martian #Holidays

Yoruba Gelede mask from Benin.
© Markus Matzel/SOAM
www.soul-of-africa.com

#nofilter #visitessen #ruhrarea #ruhrgebiet #essencity #soul_of_africa_museum #soulofafricamuseum #africamuseum #afrikamuseum #museum #exhibition #voodoo #vodou #vodun #voodooreligion #vodoureligion #vodunreligion #benin #secretsociety #yoruba #gelede #familyouting #leisure time #leisure time tips #leisuretimeouting

Nganga Briyumba of Madre Canasta, the Congo Nanà Buruku, deity of lagoons, swamps and the moon.

© Markus Matzel/SOAM
www.soul-of-africa.com

#visitessen #ruhrarea #ruhrgebiet #essencity #soul_of_africa_museum #soulofafricamuseum #africamuseum #afrikamuseum #museum #exhibition #voodoo #vodou #vodun #voodooreligion #vodoureligion #vodunreligion #cuban #palo #palomayombe #diaspora #nganga #cuban #familytrip #leisure #leisuretips #leisuretrip

Colorful Fly Fishing Lure. New in my classic Color Fusion series!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/colorful-fly-fishing-lure-art-sharon-cummings.html

#fish #fishy #fishes #fishing #angler #fly #flies #flyfishing #leisure #recreation #recreational #outdoor #outdoors #outdoorsy #camp #camping #campsite #salmon #trout #bass #rustic #cabin #farmhouse #country #colorful #art #artwork #vintage #antiques #antique #handmade #handmadeart #SharonCummingsArt

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

For my part, the thing that I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 3 “Competition” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/767…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #contentment #satisfaction #bertrandrussell #aspirations #competition #economicsecurity #goals #leisure #ratrace #wealth #money

Adventure River, Rixos Hotels' innovative water adventure in the Red Sea 🏝️💦
Amusement Logic's design responds to the challenge of offering tourists "exceptional escapes beyond the ordinary".

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#redsea #luxurytourism #innovative #leisure #tourism #merrouge #aventureaquatique #tourisme #loisirs #luxe #marrojo #aventuraacuática #turismo #ocio #lujo #innovación #amusementlogic

Lasers [LiDAR] Reveal 15th-Century Fortified Zapotec City In Mexico
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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lasers-reveal-15th-century-fortified-zapotec-city-in-mexico <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956536124000166 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #LiDAR #groundsurface #survey #Zapotec #Oaxaca #Mexico #topography #archaeology #vegetation #indigeneous #history #Tehuantepec #Guiengola #city #urban #urbanplanning #layout #residential #neighbourhoods #leisure #sports #elite #ethnohistory #FirstNation #spatialanalysis #postclassic #mesoamerica #typology #barrio #epicenter #plaza #road #infrastructure #river #ballcourt #buildings

'Field work' on the hydrology at a portion of the US continental divide in Colorado. 😉😁
Twee maybe, but don't forget to live life now too, use that leave...
#water #hydrology #work #leisure #leave #goodforthesoul #professional #daysoff #regeneration #hippydippy #water #snow #skiing #lovelandskiarea #continentaldivide #notHoth

Updates To New Zealand Topo50 Map Coverage - Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/toit%C5%AB-te-whenua-linz-_our-talented-cartographers-have-been-busy-activity-7274891422502195200-mCGe <-- shared post
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https://www.linz.govt.nz/products-services/maps/new-zealand-topographic-maps/topo50-map-chooser <-- Topo50 NZ Map Chooser
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https://www.linz.govt.nz/products-services/maps/new-zealand-topographic-maps/topo50-map-chooser/topo50-map-bs24-mount-robert <-- Topo50 map example - BS24 - Mount Robert
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H/T Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand
#GIS #spatial #mapping #map #papermap #geotiff #opendata #NewZealand #coverage #usecase #Topo50 #download #topographic #AI #machinelearning #emergencyresponse #planning #urbanplanning #tramping #tourism #leisure
@Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand @LINZ

🌊 Large-scale aquatic infrastructures: the science behind Amusement Megapools
🔧 Advanced engineering, 🌍 resource optimization, and 🌱 sustainability in pools that offer a unique aquatic experience.

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#amusementlogic #leisure #tourism #aquaticinfrastructure #megapools #pool #loisir #tourisme #infrastructureaquatique #piscine #infraestructurasaquaticas #piscina #piscinas

🗣️ Nicolas Perpigna, General Manager of Canyoning Park d'Argelès-sur-Mer
“The particularity of our business is that all our customers are treated on a first-name basis with us, but we always treat them with respect.”

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#canyoningpark #adventure #leisure #tourism #uniqueexperience #aventure #loisir #tourisme #experienceunique #aventura #ocio #turismo #experienciaúnica

#CULTURE & #LOISIRS - L' #agenda de la #semaine en #Tunisie

https://lepetitjournal.com/tunis/a-voir-a-faire/culture-loisirs-lagenda-de-la-semaine-en-tunisie-380117

#CULTURE #LEISURE #week #Tunisia