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There’s been a lot going on in the world of attractions over the last week. Here are some of the headlines:
Tom Anstey | Planet Attractions | 22 Jul 2024
There’s been a lot going on in the world of attractions over the last week. Here are some of the headlines:
• With Europe in the midst of a brutal heatwave, Greece’s Culture Ministry last week ordered the closure of the historic Acropolis, while visitors were given bottles of cold water and information on heat illnesses.
• Oracle chief executive Safra Catz will be stepping down from Disney's board after serving as a member for six years. With Catz’s departure, the company’s board size has been trimmed to 11 directors from 12.
• Keith Sanford, the Tennessee Aquarium's fourth president and CEO, has announced his retirement.
• A rare orange lobster discovered in a shipment to a Colorado Red Lobster restaurant has been given a second chance at life after being donated to Denver Downtown Aquarium.
• The panda pair that arrived at the San Diego Zoo from China earlier this summer will make their eagerly awaited public debut on Thursday, August 8, the zoo has announced.
• The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art has become the first in the US to restitute its holdings of Benin Bronzes, with a brass plaque and wooden altarpiece formally returned in a ceremony to the Oba of Benin
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