ExperienceTrack record
An operating track record built at venue level.
The Alyon Management team has built, launched, operated, and turned around leisure and entertainment venues across the UAE, working with mall developers, intellectual property partners, and independent operators.
The team's track record
- 24+
- unique flagship venues launched or operated across team careers.
- 300k+
- sq. ft. of leisure space managed cumulatively.
- 2.5M
- Average annual guests served.
- 40+
- Years of combined GCC industry experience.
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Venues
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Sqft
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Guests
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Years
Sectors
Sectors we operate across
Our experience spans the breadth of leisure and entertainment. The underlying operating principles are consistent across formats; the specifics of each sector are different, and the operating requirements — safety, throughput, staffing model, commercial mix — shape how we approach each.
Trampoline and Active Play Parks
Laser Tag and Paintball
Virtual and Immersive Reality
Sports-Branded Entertainment Venues
Edutainment
Social Entertainment
Waterparks
Outdoor Leisure
Carnivals and Events
Beach and Recreation
Escape Rooms and Challenge Experiences
Venues
Venues the team has operated or launched
The venues below have been operated or launched by members of the Alyon Management team, either in their current roles with the group or in prior positions, and represent the depth of the team's collective experience.
The logos shown represent venues that members of the Alyon Management team have operated or launched in current or prior roles. No current commercial relationship or endorsement is implied.
Turnkey Management
Case study: City Challenge
Turnkey venue management for a Manchester City Football Club–branded interactive entertainment venue at Yas Mall, Abu Dhabi.
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Project summary
Alyon Management delivered turnkey venue management for City Challenge, a Manchester City Football Club-branded interactive entertainment venue at Yas Mall, Abu Dhabi. The engagement covered pre-opening setup, launch, and ongoing operations.
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Scope of engagement
- Pre-opening operational build-out, including team recruitment, training, systems setup, supplier onboarding, and compliance.
- Launch delivery, including soft launch, full opening, and the first months of live operation.
- Ongoing operations, including front-of-house, guest services, attraction operation, safety, commercial activity, and day-to-day venue management.
- Brand stewardship, operating the venue to the standards required by a globally recognized sports intellectual property partner.
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Adjacent-space attraction build-out
Within the same engagement, the team was asked to take on an adjacent, undeveloped area of the venue. The owner sought a recommendation on how best to use the space to drive footfall and extend the commercial footprint of the venue.
Alyon Management delivered the work end-to-end. The team developed a bespoke attraction concept tailored to the venue's audience and commercial context, led the design and attraction sourcing, project-managed the build, and integrated the new space into ongoing operations on completion. The outcome was a new revenue-generating area delivered within the existing venue envelope, operating as a seamless part of the guest experience from opening onward.
The work drew on each of the disciplines Alyon Management brings together in one team: concept design, attraction sourcing, project management, and live venue operation.
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The scope in context
City Challenge combined several of the more demanding elements of venue management: delivering an intellectual property-led concept, meeting the standards of a global sports brand, opening at scale within a flagship mall, running the venue to a consistent operating standard from day one, and, in the adjacent-space build-out, developing and delivering a new attraction in parallel with running the base operation. The team delivered the full scope.