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Why are leisure and entertainment so important for retail areas today? With online sales booming, traditional retail – whether in city centres or shopping centres – has adapted its offering and its marketing approach. The challenge now for those involved in real estate business such as Triple Five, Regions Group, Sonae Sierra, Wanda Group and Apsys, to name a few, is to redefine the idea of the shopping centre, and provide an enhanced customer experience. Customers will still visit shopping centres with the goal of purchasing, but they will also come to spend a day of fun, fellowship and leisure with family and friends. The shopping centre is a one stop shop for today’s customers.
How does MAPIC showcase Retailtainment & Edutainment over three days? Firstly, MAPIC focuses on retail real estate on a global scale. It’s the only event where all types of development sites are represented: shopping centres, city centres, outlying areas, transit zones, factory outlets and leisure centres. This is a unique opportunity for leisure operators and leisure brands to meet with their peers and exchange best practices with international players and owners of different retail site types.
How will entertainment and leisure integrate in shopping centres? In the previous century, culture, leisure and entertainment played a nominal role in the shopping centre strategy, and were perceived in some ways as merely philanthropic or charitable in nature. But in the wake of online competition, many savvy developers and shopping centre operators now perceive a major opportunity to increase footfall by rebranding the shopping centre as an event-space that encourages the public to stay longer (and buy more) while visiting the mall. Events can be focused on culture, leisure or education.
Read more from this issue of Spa Business magazine
View contents of Spa Business 2014 issue 2
Editor's letter: The New Philanthropists
Tech is hot and as the growing number of tech millionaires
turn their thoughts to philanthropy, tech-related
attactions will prosper
Profile: Mario Mamon
The current chair of IAAPA talks about
his role with the organisation, doubling
the size of family theme park Enchanted
Kingdom in the Philippines and the
devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan
Museums: MOHAI
MOHAI's executive director,
Leonard Garfield, talks about
the Seattle museum's new Bezos
Center for Innovation, named after
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Science centres: Appliance of science
Andreas Waschk and Mike Boris
explain how they made Blueprint
Entertainment into Europe's largest
private science centre operator
Museums: Olympic Movement
Director Francis Gabet describes how
The Olympic Museum's extensive
refurbishment reflects the excitement
and diveristy of the modern Games
Planetariums: Starry skies
The newly upgraded Fiske Planetarium in
Boulder, Colorado now boasts the highest
specification full dome theatre in the US.
Director Douglas Duncan tells us more
Museums: Beautiful minds
The founders of MoMath, the New York
Museum of Mathematics, tell us how
they're on a mission to get ordinary
people to fall in love with maths
World expos: Brave new world
Christian Lachel considers how world
expos can raise global awareness
about what matters for the planet
3D/4D/5D: IMERSA
A review of the fifth annual IMERSA
conference held in Denver, Colorado
Advertisement feature: EAS 2014
The exhibitors reveal what they’ll be showcasing at EAS in
September and what the hot topics of conversation will be
Waterparks: Wet'n'Wild
Wet'n'Wild Sydney has welcomed
a million visitors through its gates
since opening in December. Managing
director Chris Warhurst tells us why
Ticketing: Convenience store
Gateway's Liesel Tarquini explains
how mobile web stores can help
generate additional revenue
for attractions operators
In 2014, a dedicated RETAILTAINMENT zone will gather key players from the sector. Strategically located in Riviera 7, this unique area will feature pitching sessions and a café to network and do business in.
Find out more Contact Laetitia Garat, sales manager Tel +33 6 03 28 48 33 Email [email protected] www.mapic.com
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Why are leisure and entertainment so important for retail areas today? With online sales booming, traditional retail – whether in city centres or shopping centres – has adapted its offering and its marketing approach. The challenge now for those involved in real estate business such as Triple Five, Regions Group, Sonae Sierra, Wanda Group and Apsys, to name a few, is to redefine the idea of the shopping centre, and provide an enhanced customer experience. Customers will still visit shopping centres with the goal of purchasing, but they will also come to spend a day of fun, fellowship and leisure with family and friends. The shopping centre is a one stop shop for today’s customers.
How does MAPIC showcase Retailtainment & Edutainment over three days? Firstly, MAPIC focuses on retail real estate on a global scale. It’s the only event where all types of development sites are represented: shopping centres, city centres, outlying areas, transit zones, factory outlets and leisure centres. This is a unique opportunity for leisure operators and leisure brands to meet with their peers and exchange best practices with international players and owners of different retail site types.
How will entertainment and leisure integrate in shopping centres? In the previous century, culture, leisure and entertainment played a nominal role in the shopping centre strategy, and were perceived in some ways as merely philanthropic or charitable in nature. But in the wake of online competition, many savvy developers and shopping centre operators now perceive a major opportunity to increase footfall by rebranding the shopping centre as an event-space that encourages the public to stay longer (and buy more) while visiting the mall. Events can be focused on culture, leisure or education.
Read more from this issue of Spa Business magazine
View contents of Spa Business 2014 issue 2
Editor's letter: The New Philanthropists
Tech is hot and as the growing number of tech millionaires
turn their thoughts to philanthropy, tech-related
attactions will prosper
Profile: Mario Mamon
The current chair of IAAPA talks about
his role with the organisation, doubling
the size of family theme park Enchanted
Kingdom in the Philippines and the
devastation of Super Typhoon Haiyan
Museums: MOHAI
MOHAI's executive director,
Leonard Garfield, talks about
the Seattle museum's new Bezos
Center for Innovation, named after
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Science centres: Appliance of science
Andreas Waschk and Mike Boris
explain how they made Blueprint
Entertainment into Europe's largest
private science centre operator
Museums: Olympic Movement
Director Francis Gabet describes how
The Olympic Museum's extensive
refurbishment reflects the excitement
and diveristy of the modern Games
Planetariums: Starry skies
The newly upgraded Fiske Planetarium in
Boulder, Colorado now boasts the highest
specification full dome theatre in the US.
Director Douglas Duncan tells us more
Museums: Beautiful minds
The founders of MoMath, the New York
Museum of Mathematics, tell us how
they're on a mission to get ordinary
people to fall in love with maths
World expos: Brave new world
Christian Lachel considers how world
expos can raise global awareness
about what matters for the planet
3D/4D/5D: IMERSA
A review of the fifth annual IMERSA
conference held in Denver, Colorado
Advertisement feature: EAS 2014
The exhibitors reveal what they’ll be showcasing at EAS in
September and what the hot topics of conversation will be
Waterparks: Wet'n'Wild
Wet'n'Wild Sydney has welcomed
a million visitors through its gates
since opening in December. Managing
director Chris Warhurst tells us why
Ticketing: Convenience store
Gateway's Liesel Tarquini explains
how mobile web stores can help
generate additional revenue
for attractions operators
In 2014, a dedicated RETAILTAINMENT zone will gather key players from the sector. Strategically located in Riviera 7, this unique area will feature pitching sessions and a café to network and do business in.
Find out more Contact Laetitia Garat, sales manager Tel +33 6 03 28 48 33 Email [email protected] www.mapic.com
Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai in Hoi An, Vietnam, has put together a Global Wellness Day
(GWD) agenda with activations rooted in nature and shaped by four pillars of Joy – in
alignment with the day’s theme #JoyMagenta.
The Global Wellness Summit (GWS) will celebrate its 20th anniversary at the 2026 event in
Phuket, Thailand, later this year with the theme: The Science, Art and Soul of Wellness.
Auko, an all-inclusive development, is opening in Phong Nha in Vietnam in Q3 2026, with a
series of 30 tented eco-lodges and wellness hospitality operations by Lumina Wellbeing.
Therme Manchester’s 28-acre development, which will include interconnected glass pavilions
that measure 65,000sq m, will be the largest bathing and wellbeing attraction in the world once
complete, according to prof David Russell, CEO of Therme UK.
Naples Beach Club, a Four Seasons Resort, has opened a 2,800sq m spa called The Sanctuary,
with the design and concept inspired by the Native American people that populated Florida’s
Southwest coast – the Calusa.
Swire Hotels’ luxury hospitality brand Upper House has revealed it will roll out its two-day
House of Healing retreats at its three hotels in Hong Kong, Chengdu and Shanghai.
LVMH-owned beauty house Guerlain will launch up to five spas with partners a year as part of
its plan to expand globally, according to the brand’s international spa and wellness director,
Diane Davody.
A new global study by Kevin Kelly and Peter Yesawich, called WELLSurvey 2.0, has revealed
more than half of consumers in the UK, US and Germany would not choose numerous high-
profile wellness resort brands for a future trip.
The Spa Life UK Convention returns from 21–23 June 2026 at Whittlebury Park Hotel, Spa &
Golf Resort, bringing together spa managers, directors and owners for two days of focused
education, meaningful connection and commercial insight. [more...]
Le Atelier by C.O.D.E. doesn't offer a standard bespoke service, it provides a highly
customised approach to designing massage beds and loungers in high-end wellness
environments. [more...]
+ More featured suppliers
COMPANY PROFILES
Bellezi Founded in 2009 as a Dutch family business, Bellezi brings more than 20 years of experience in treat [more...]
