Dollywood‘s Splash Country water park, part of Dollywood Parks & Resorts, kicked off this year‘s season on May 14, which will run through September 5. There has been an improvement in the park‘s attraction offerings, especially for families with (...) read more
The skywalk allgäu nature experience park located in Scheidegg (Bavaria) offers its visitors a new educational experience around the topic of “bees“ starting next Saturday (May 21). The “Nature Experience Garden – Bees and Blossoms in the Course of (...) read more
In January of this year, Efteling announced a major park expansion that includes the development of a new 17,000-square-foot themed area designed to give visitors goosebumps. The “Spookslot“, which opened in 1978, will be demolished in favor of the (...) read more
As has now been officially announced, the French animal and amusement park Le PAL (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region) will expand and diversify its visitor offering next year by the addition of a new Smash & Reload dark ride. Starting in 2023, park guests (...) read more
On Denmark’s vacation island of Als in southern Jutland, the symbolic groundbreaking ceremony for the first Center Parcs Europe holiday park in Scandinavia is taking place today. The new holiday park complex with over 440 holiday homes is being (...) read more
Braunschweig, Germany-based Simtec Systems, a global developer of high-end motion simulators, and Scruffy Dog Creative, a leading experience design company, just announced to have formed an alliance to develop a new immersive, trackless dark ride (...) read more
Italian manufacturer Neveplast is best known for its TUBBY slides, which can be used all year round and on which young and old alike glide downhill sitting in tubes filled with air over slopes covered with a special plastic coating. Now the supplier (...) read more
The Keukenhof, the flower park located in the west of the Netherlands, which presents a colorful variety of blossoms on its park grounds from March to May annually, closes its first season after a two-year forced closure due to the Corona pandemic (...) read more
This past weekend, Parc Astérix (part of the Compagnie des Alpes group) celebrated the official opening of the renewed and renamed wooden roller coaster “Tonnerre 2 Zeus” (formerly “Tonnerre de Zeus”). Together with actor and comedian Arnaud Ducret (...) read more
In September 2021, the third Meow Wolf permanent exhibition “Convergence Station“ (photo) opened in Denver, Colorado which did not mean that the art collective is taking a break. As Meow Wolf now announced it will open two more locations in the US (...) read more
Florida-based Ellis & Associates (E&A), an international aquatic safety and risk management consulting firm dedicated to the prevention and elimination of drowning accidents, recently announced Darlene Reese-Sittig (photo) as its new Education & (...) read more
For the first quarter ended on 31 March of the current fiscal year 2022, Comcast Corporation reported significantly positive results for its Universal Parks & Resorts theme park division compared to the same period last year: Total revenues (...) read more
Jonathan Bonner, who most recently was Project Producer at Katapult, has been appointed new Executive Producer at Storyland Studios. Bonner, who was involved in numerous projects for well-known companies such as Walt Disney Imagineering, The LEGO® (...) read more
With their newly founded company TDAC BV (Tourist Development and Attraction Consultants), the two Dutch leisure professionals Coen Bertens (former COO of Efteling) and Bart Dohmen (former BRC Imagination Arts executive) want to position themselves (...) read more
The Saudi Entertainment & Amusement Expo (SEA Expo) will take place at the Riyadh International Exhibition & Convention Center next week from May 16 to 18. For four years now, manufacturers from all over the world have been gathering in Saudi Arabia (...) read more
Pradera Islands, the new future theme park in Lubao, province of Pampanga, on the Philippines, aims at opening its doors to visitors for the first time in 2024 (as part of the Pradera Verde Resort). With this goal in mind, construction work on the (...) read more
Vantage Technology Ltd., a technology company belonging to WhiteWater West, has a new president: Effective immediately, technology expert Michael Jungen is taking the helm of the company’s division to drive its growth. The Vantage technology (...) read more
Since May 1, the Hungarian capital Budapest has one more exciting visitor attraction on offer. In the historic garden of Heroes’ Square (near the Széchenyi Thermal Bath), the new large balloon supplied by the French company Aerophile lifts off the (...) read more
From May 11 to 13, industry professionals will meet up again for the “IAAPA EMEA Spring Summit”, this time taking place in Rome. Panel discussions, keynotes and networking are to be dedicated primarily to the four main topics of sustainability, (...) read more
The Seepark Ternsche, a leisure, camping and relaxation destination around 40 kilometers north of Dortmund (Germany’s Ruhr Region), now offers guests to the park’s swimming area a new attraction. Here, a new swimming high-ropes course of the brand (...) read more
