THE MILLENNIUM DOME

The Millennium Dome

The Millennium Dome

Introduction

In the course of recent years much quarrel has encompassed certain UK ventures included with the turning of the Millennium. Auspicious guest attractions can furnish a help in tourism to the range, making a positive multiplier impact for neighborhood occupants and the economy. However unsuccessful attractions can expedite a negative picture and harming outcomes. This paper surveys two activities dependent upon the advancement of the Greenwich Peninsula and basically dissections efficacious characteristics and failings of both undertakings. Firstly, The Millennium Dome, operational from January 1st 2000 until December 31st 2000. Run by the New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC), with backing from the Government, lottery financing and subsidizing from the UK taxpayer. All through the Dome's operational year, it pulled in 6,516,874 guests, simply over half of government expectations.

Discussion

The Millennium Dome, later called The O2 Arena, is a multi-sport arena that was inaugurated in late 1999 at Peninsula Greenwich, southeast of London, in the United Kingdom. Arguably the largest dome in the world, it has been designed by award winning architect Richard Rogers. Rogers designed the dome on a massive scale and it was supposed to be the most popular spot for major events in the country (Reid, 1999). Although considered a masterpiece of architecture, the structure initially had major problems regarding its use.

With a cost of nearly 850 million pounds of tax-payer money and expenditure of a staggering 1.8 million pounds on maintenance on a monthly basis, the Millennium Dome turned out to be a dismal failure since it hosted only a small exhibition during its first year even though it was expected to be the center of attraction for major events (Reid, 1999). As a result, the project faced a lot of flak and mounting criticism for mismanagement of resources including precious tax-payers money.

The Millennium Dome is a large dome shaped building on the Greenwich peninsula, located in the southeast of London. Its name was officially changed to The O2 when phone operator O2 plc., which is a subsidiary of Spanish Telefonica, bought the rights for the original promoter, Anschutz Entertainment Group. During the Olympics, the sports arena located in the center of the complex called The O2 Arena, was called "North Greenwich Arena".

The Millennium Dome was built to house a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium (Reid, 1999). The exhibition opened on January 1, 2000 and closed on December 31 of that year. The project itself, as well as the exhibition, was the subject of considerable political controversy. Since the closure of the original exhibition, the building was presented in several possible ways for reuse. The change in the name of the venue on May 31, 2005 publicized the transition zone of the Millennium Dome and indoor sports (Murch, 2004).

The new arena located in the center of the dome, The O2 Arena, finally opened on June 24th, 2007 with their sights set on the London Olympic Games of 2012. It was selected as the venue for competitions of gymnastics and ...