Employees are a company’s most important asset … With this in mind, Herschend Enterprises recently announced its intention to fully cover tuition, fees and literature for its 11,000 employees, who entertain millions of guests each year, to further (...) read more
Bristol-based Moonraker VFX, who specialises in the production of CGI content and visual effects, has now announced its first original film “Moonbase: The Next Step“, which will be launched this summer as an immersive 4D fulldome experience for (...) read more
The Park at OWA amusement park, part of the leisure and entertainment destination OWA in Alabama, will undergo a major transformation and turn into “Tropical Falls at OWA“ this spring. This development, in which a sum of over 70 million US Dollars (...) read more
The Zug, Switzerland-based Kannewischer Management AG, which is specialised in thermal baths and wellness facilities, was founded in 1952 by Bernd Kannewischer and is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, led in the second generation by his (...) read more
Effective 7th February 2022, Yannick Gemme (pictured) is the new Vice President Sales & Marketing at Montréal, Canada-based company Triotech. The sales expert looks back on many years of experience in the development and management of international (...) read more
From today, 8 February, the new outdoor theme park Genting SkyWorlds welcomes its first visitors, officially kicking off its soft opening phase. Covering an area of over ten hectares (26 acres), nine different themed areas with a total of 26 (...) read more
As of this summer, the Belgian capital city will have an all-new family-friendly visitor attraction on offer as the new LEGO Discovery Centre, to be operated by Merlin Entertainments, will open its gates for the first time. Following the opening of (...) read more
On a ground space of around 1.6 hectares (four acres) at the heart of Twycross Zoo, which is located in Atherstone around a 45-minute drive west of Leicester, the new, multi-million pound visitor attraction “The Gruffalo Discovery Land“ is scheduled (...) read more
As part of the Las Vegas-based entertainment complex AREA 15, which is home to e.g. Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart (see EAP 3/21), the new “Liftoff” aerobar by French manufacturer Aerophile has opened, and is now the first attraction of this kind in the (...) read more
For the further development of The London Resort, for which first cooperation partners were announced in fall last year (cf. EAP News of 12 Oct 2021), a strategic partnership has now been formed with the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) organization & (...) read more
To further drive the company’s growth, California-based manufacturing and design company BRC, which just celebrated its 40th anniversary last year (cf. EAP News of 7 Oct 2021), now announced it is reorganizing and expanding its organizational (...) read more
Yesterday, Merlin Entertainments (Merlin) and Mondelēz announced that Merlin will take over the operations and brand licenses of Cadbury World in Birmingham “Cadbury World is a truly unique experience and since it first opened its doors in 1990, has (...) read more
Cedar Fair, the Sandusky, Ohio-based operator group, has announced that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding takeover offer from SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. Together with legal and financial advisors, the Cedar Fair board of directors will (...) read more
At Germany‘s Bostalsee, more precisely at the “Surfbasis“ on the Gonnersweiler lakeshore about 400 metres away from Center Parcs Bostalsee, a new visitor attraction is being developed with “Das Haus steht Kopf“ (Engl.: “The house is upside down“), (...) read more
Everything under one roof now at the Asia Hotel & Spa Leoben in Styria, Austria. Since 28 January 2022, the popular wellness and recreation spa, a modern lifestyle hotel and a new fusions restaurant have belonged together. The 28,000-square metre (...) read more
Under the motto of “Growing Green Cities”, the Floriade 2022 will kick off in the Dutch city of Almere on 14 April this year. “The Arboretum has been completed. This permanent green space forms the green cornerstone of the Expo and the Hortus (...) read more
Playparc, the play equipment manufacturer based in Bad Driburg (East Westphalia region/Germany) specialized not only in classic children’s play equipment but also in multi-generational concepts and exercise course installations, has recently (...) read more
SPREE Interactive, the Nuremberg-based developer of multi-player VR experiences, and Italian company Eurogames, who specializes in the production of battery-powered bumper cars, now announced their partnership to offer the new experience “VR Space (...) read more
The 34-hectare (85-acre) dinosaur park ROARR! Dinosaur Adventure, which is run by the Goymour family, is planning an extensive expansion of its area, which currently features not only replicas of prehistoric giants but also interactive visitor (...) read more
Red Raion, the Italian CGI studio specializing in films for media-based attractions, recently announced the production of a new film that is a modern reinterpretation of the well-known Jules Verne adventure novel from 1873. In “Around the World in (...) read more
