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Due to the latest Covid-19 restrictions, the Walibi Sud-Ouest amusement park in the south of France (Nouvelle-Aquitaine region) also had to end its season early. Actually, the Halloween festival in the park was supposed to be celebrated with (...) read more

The Natural History Museum (NHM) in London recently received the “go ahead” from the responsible authorities for the transformation of the museum garden. For the “Urban Nature Project“, the museum is forming a coalition with wildlife organizations (...) read more

Today, Legoland Windsor, which is operated by the Merlin Group, announced the development of the new “Lego Mythica: World of Mythical Creatures“ themed area. The new land, which will be dedicated to mythical creatures “from another world“ is (...) read more

As Efteling just announced, Coen Bertens (photo), Director of the Park business unit, will  leave the Dutch fairytale theme park after 23 years. “Efteling is a dynamic organisation that moves with the times. This also applies to me, it is time for a (...) read more

Universal Music Group and Dakia U-Venture, an entertainment investment group, recently announced their joint venture in order to develop the new UMUSIC Hotel chain, of which the first three locations are set to be constructed in the USA (in Atlanta, (...) read more

The feared “second wave“ of the coronavirus spread is keeping European countries firmly in its grip and is prompting states once again to take stricter measures in order to control the current sharp rise in the number of infected persons and reduce (...) read more

Despite the conditionally limited visitor numbers due to the Corona pandemic, Robert Dahl, owner and operator of five Karl Erlebnis-Dörfer across the country, looks optimistically into the future. Shortly after the company’s expansion plans for the (...) read more

The German leisure industry firmly rejects the recent imminent closures of amusement parks and attractions. The hygiene concepts have proven to be effective under the strict control of operators and authorities in recent months, explains the (...) read more

With the new “Toverland App“, visitors to the Dutch Toverland amusement park can receive detailed and useful information for their stay. Whether guests are looking for opening and waiting times of attractions, show times, F&B options or shops, all (...) read more

The Six Flags operating group recently announced the appointment of Janine Durette as new President of Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Northern California. Durette will also oversee operations for the Hurricane Harbor Concord waterpark. Since 2012, (...) read more

On October, 31st Germany’s Jaderpark will start into its winter season with extensive attraction and leisure offerings also during the cold months. The animal and leisure park in Jaderberg, located between Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg in Northern (...) read more

The US-American ride manufacturer and distribution partner Ride Entertainment and the also USA-based supplier company NewcoUSA, which is specialised in precision engineering and application of polyurethane wheels for roller coasters, recently (...) read more

OCT Group’s Happy Valley theme park in Chongqing (South West China) is getting a new theme area dedicated to the popular 3D children animation series “Super Wings”. At a scheduled total investment of 75.8 million Euros (600 million Yuan) several new (...) read more

The sauna landscape at Cologne‘s Zündorfbad, which comprises a Finnish infusion sauna, a KELO log cabin sauna, a herbal sauna and a steam bath, was recently modernized and redesigned as “Groov Sauna”, in relation to the region’s Groov island and the (...) read more

Actually, several new water slides were scheduled to open to the public last Friday at the Andersonstown Leisure Centre in Belfast as part of an extensive 25 million British Pounds (around 27.5 million Euros) redevelopment. Already last autumn, a (...) read more

Yesterday saw the grand opening of the new The Palm Fountain Dubai water show attraction, which spans an area of over 1,300 square meters (14,000 square feet) of sea water at the waterfront of Palm Jumeirah island in Dubai and is thus the currently (...) read more

Now that four parks of the Plopsa Group in Belgium, namely Plopsaland De Panne, Mayaland Indoor, Plopsa Indoor Hasselt and Plopsa Coo, are affected by the sudden closure order (cf. EAP News of 23 Oct 2020), the company goes public with a clear (...) read more

The Belgian federal government held a press conference this morning, following last night's meeting of the “consultation committee” which is in charge of taking decisions to slow down the spread of the coronavirus in the country. Among the different (...) read more

As one of the largest European water park projects completed in the past months, the Rulantica water world, which is part of the Europa-Park Resort, was honored with a “Leading Edge Award” by the World Waterpark Association during this year’s “WWA40 (...) read more