The British Blackpool Pleasure Beach theme park has announced the return of its iconic “Valhalla” dark ride this season. The water ride from manufacturer Intamin was opened in 2000 and since then, until its temporary closure in 2019, has been (...) read more
Germany’s Freizeitpark Irrland in Kevelaer, North Rhine-Westphalia, near the Dutch border, started into this year’s season yesterday – visitors can look forward to several novelties in the course of the next months, such as an extension of the (...) read more
The Norwegian amusement park Kongeparken, which belongs to the Lund Gruppen, has announced a new attraction for this summer. “Raset” is the name of the new attraction, which is a Disk’ O coaster from the Italian manufacturer Zamperla. For the (...) read more
Ahead of the 2023 season kick-off tomorrow, construction has already begun on a new overnight offering at LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort, which is part of the Merlin Entertainments Group. In addition to the LEGOLAND® Resort and Castle Hotel, guests will (...) read more
Today is the day: the first theme park in the Dominican Republic, KatmanduTM Park Punta Cana, officially opens its doors to its guests after a soft opening phase. The developer and operator of the theme park is the American company Falcon’s Beyond, (...) read more
Zurich Zoo has announced the construction of a new big cat facility as part of its “Development Plan 2050”. “Panterra” will be its name, which is composed of “Panthera” (genus name of the actual big cats) and the Latin word “Terra” for earth. The (...) read more
Today, Orlando/Florida-based entertainment company Falcon’s Beyond announced Simon Philips as their President (pictured here in the middle) – a newly-created position at the company. Philips previously acted as a Senior Advisor to Falcon’s board and (...) read more
Ten years ago, the Italian company Neveplast launched its “Skiddy” product, which is a go-kart track with a track that is slippery due to an artificial synthetic surface, so that the karts glide as if on real snow. Now the company has announced a (...) read more
The three-day DEAL 2023 trade show, organized by International Expo-Consults LLC (IEC) and focusing on the leisure industry in the Middle East and Africa region, starts today in the desert city of Dubai. From 14-16 March, interested parties can (...) read more
It’s not just polar bears, elephants and apes that are threatened. The extent of insect mortality is also becoming increasingly clear. As part of the project “ProInsect”, which was funded in the federal program “Biological Diversity” by Germany’s (...) read more
International cruise line Royal Caribbean International has received approval from the government of The Bahamas to develop the first Royal Beach Club. “The Royal Beach Club at Paradise Island”, in west Nassau on The Bahamas, will offer guests a (...) read more
The Dutch Toverland amusement park has a spectacular new park show called “Aqua Bellatores” in store for its visitors this season. Aqua Bellatores means “water fighters”, which gives an idea of the core of the show. Thus, water is at the center of (...) read more
Tomorrow, it’s the day: The new “Aquaman: Power Wave” water roller coaster opens at US theme park Six Flags Over Texas. The new attraction is the “Power Splash” model from German roller coaster manufacturer Mack Rides. On a total track length of 213 (...) read more
Recently, the former conference and exhibition center in Manchester’s leisure and retail complex TraffordCity was demolished, allowing the Therme Group to begin construction of Therme Manchester. The demolition was carried out by regeneration (...) read more
Internorga, the leading international trade fair for the out-of-home market, starts today in the halls of Hamburg Messe & Congress: during five days (through March, 14th), professionals in F&B such as operators of amusement parks and leisure (...) read more
Last year, the Dutch Efteling theme park welcomed 5.43 million visitors. A record result in its 70-year history! 81.5 percent of park guests came from the Netherlands, 12.4 percent from Belgium, 3.8 percent from Germany and 2.3 percent from other (...) read more
Universal Parks & Resorts, a unit of Comcast NBCUniversal, is becoming Universal Destinations & Experiences to better reflect the full breadth of innovative offerings Universal aims at bringing to theme park guests and consumers around the globe. (...) read more
March 24 marks the premiere of the new “Peanuts” edutainment show at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Called “All Systems Are Go”, the new show was produced by the Montreal-based production company Monlove. It will be shown in the facility’s (...) read more
Northern Germany’s Jaderpark has revealed the secret of a new themed area and large-scale attraction for 2024: On a site between the “Okavango River” flume ride (by Hafema, read the full article here EAP 5/2021), which opened two years ago, and the (...) read more
Merlin Entertainments has announced the development of a new Peppa Pig theme park. After the first park around the pink cartoon character opened in Florida in spring 2022, North America’s second destination of this kind is now under construction in (...) read more
