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Articles in issue 2010 - 2

Coverstory

Holidays during a crisis

The Foundation for Future Studies (Stiftung für Zukunftsfragen) presents the
26th German Tourism Analysis. Interview with Dr. Ulrich Reinhardt, Executive Board Member and Researcher, the Foundation for Future Studies – An initiative of British American Tobacco.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Successful re-topping despite adverse conditions

New sport opportunities in the Emmendingen stadium.
The stadium in Emmendingen in the Southern Black Forest was a critical patient. The plastic surface material, which dated from the 1980’s, was not only due for a refit for age reasons. Damaged areas were visible beneath the surface in some cases, but hidden in others.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Melos-Granules - The surface for winners

22-year-old Jamaican Usain Bolt has set the predicted new world record in the 100-meter discipline. His strongest competitor, Tayson Gay, got the shock of his life during the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in the Berlin Olympic Stadium, when Usain Bolt not only set a new world record in the 100 metres but also in the 200 metres.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

20.000 Euro for ideas and visions for sports clubs

Lotto Hesse and the Hesse regional sports association announce the
“Oddset Future Prize for Sport in Hesse”.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Solution-oriented, further development of elastomers, a success story

The Melos GmbH develops know-how. Their products set standards in quality and application throughout the world with their state-of-the-art knowledge based on decades of experience and continual research. An interview with the Managing Director of Melos GmbH, Jörg Siekmann.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Maintenance of sports equipment: Quality guarantees safety.

A group of experienced sports equipment manufacturers joined forces with the most significant consumer representative and founded the “Gütegemeinschaft Sportgeräte e.V.” (quality control of sports equipment) which – under the pub-lic-law-governed, well-known roof of the RAL (Deutsches Institut für Gütesi-cherung und Kennzeichnung e.V. – German Institute for quality control and la-belling) – issued the quality control legislation, RAL-GZ 945.