Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation will partner with the company behind the London Eye Ferris wheel for a Shrek-themed attraction on the capital's South Bank. Shrek's Far-Far Away Adventure will be one of six similar sites across the globe. The attraction is due to open in summer 2015 and will celebrate the four-film animated fantasy saga about a grumpy green ogre that has so far taken more than US$ 3.5 billion at the worldwide box office, as well as other films from DreamWorks Animation. "The 1860 square meters experience will be based on a brand-new adventure being written by the DreamWorks team," said the studio and partner Merlin in a statement. "It will feature a Shrek interactive walk-through adventure, a character courtyard where visitors will be able to meet Shrek and his swamp friends, along with characters from Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon." The attraction will be installed at County Hall, near the London Eye, the London Sea Life Aquarium and the London Dungeon, all of which are owned by Merlin. The theme park operator is the largest company of its kind in Europe. "We're excited to work with Merlin to build something that we think is going to be a singularly unique way to experience Shrek and his world," said DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg. "This attraction is going to be unlike anything that currently exists and will undoubtedly become a new type of destination for families." The London Shrek attraction will be the first to open, with a further five sites set to be built between now and 2023.

A plan to create a giant casino complex - called Eurovegas - near Madrid has collapsed after disagreements between the developer and Spanish authorities. US casino operator Las Vegas Sands has pulled out of the US$ 30 billion project which included six casinos, 12 hotels and many shops. On July 25, 2013 the corporation officially registered plans to build a sprawling resort known as "Eurovegas" outside the Spanish capital Madrid, but now it was cancelled. Directly and indirectly the project was supposed to create up to 250,000 posts. That was an important selling point in Spain where the jobless rate currently stands at 27%. However Spanish authorities would not agree to several demands from the US Company. Las Vegas Sands wanted the government to insure it against future changes in policy which could damage the resort's profitability, as well as a lower tax on gambling. There was also a disagreement over smoking at the resort, with Las Vegas Sands asking for the resort to be exempted from Spanish rules on smoking. At a news conference after the government's weekly cabinet meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said: "New conditions were put forward concerning taxes and legal protection ... which could not be taken on board by the administrations involved," "The government needs to preserve the general interests of all Spaniards," she said. In a statement, Las Vegas Sands chief executive Sheldon Adelson said: "While the government and many others have worked diligently on this effort, we do not see a path in which the criteria needed to move forward with this large-scale development can be reached. "Developing integrated resorts in Europe has been a vision of mine for years, but there is a time and place for everything and right now our focus is on encouraging Asian countries, like Japan and Korea, to dramatically enhance their tourism offering through the development of integrated resorts there." Madrid was selected as the location for the resort after a long battle with Barcelona, which also coveted the investment. The casino complex has been opposed by several groups, including the Roman Catholic Church, which argued the development would encourage prostitution and crime.

Las Vegas Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corporation has chosen Madrid for a multi-billion dollar gambling resort project which has been dubbed "Eurovegas" and will be Europe's biggest casino and conference center. On July 25 the corporation has officially registered plans to build a sprawling resort known as "Eurovegas" outside the Spanish capital Madrid. The resort to be built on a 750-hectare site in the commuter town of Alcorcon some 15 kilometers south of Madrid. Initial investment in the resort, the first phase of which is due to be completed by 2017, will be US$ 7.9 billion and could create as many as 250 thousand jobs, a welcome boost for a country where more than one in four are out of work. The first stage of the project will includes four separate "resorts" with casino facilities attached and 12 hotels with 36 thousand hotel rooms. The final result will be a 72-storey hotel building including six casinos, a convention center, three golf courses, shopping malls, bars and restaurants. Apart this, plans also include a congress center and the largest leisure tourism center in Europe, including a stadium with capacity to hold 20 thousand spectators, 7 theatres with a total of 6 thousand seats.

Sochi will be the home for the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge. 440 meters long bridge in the new constructed Extreme Park on the road to the mountain resort Krasnaya Polyana will span over the gorge of Mzima River. Besides the bridge the Extreme Park will include a giant swing, two attractions named "Flying fox", restaurant, bar and parking for 300 cars. The entertainment complex is planned to be commissioned at the end of this year. Attractions like this are already successfully operating in Germany, France, China, Australia and Singapore.

As reported news.am, Yerevan Circus art-director Sos Petrosyan announced, that the circus building restoration will be completed in October 2014, a year later than the scheduled date. The Armenian circus restoration began in September 2011 and would be completed in October 2013. According to Mr. Petrosyan, construction delays are associated with design changes, and as a result, restoration plan changes into new construction. The new building will have two-story parking, and the "riding arena" will rise by 6 meters higher. In this regard, the circus building roof also needs to be raised to 6 meters higher. Subsequently, the building designers decided to demolish the old building and to build the new one. The new circus building differs from the old one by height, seats will be increased by 500, the underground floor and 3 arenas will be added, and so on. According to preliminary data the restoration budget was US$ 10 million, but the new construction will double the budget. The Yerevan Circus old building was built in 1962 and never has been renovated.