Two weeks ago, Ohio-based operating company Cedar Fair Entertainment had received a takeover offer from SeaWorld Entertainment (cf. EAP news of 2 Feb 2022) – now the operating group from Florida announced that its offer had been rejected and that (...) read more
In September 2021, the Therme Vierordtbad, which is operated by the Karlsruher Bäderlandschaft, launched numerous new wellness offerings for its visitors after a construction time of one and a half years (cf. EAP News of 27 Sep 2021). During the (...) read more
Last Friday, the undocking of Meyer Werft’s latest cruise ship was celebrated in Papenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. In true Disney fashion, the “Disney Wish”, the newest cruise ship of Disney Cruise Line, left the shipyard construction hall (...) read more
The second Sesame Place theme park (managed by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment) in the USA is currently being built on an area of around 17 hectares in San Diego and will officially open on March 26 this year, as the group has now announced (cf. EAP (...) read more
Plopsaland De Panne, the Belgian theme park belonging to the Belgian Plopsa Group, will invest a total of 2.5 million euros in the redesign of its “Ketnetzone” in the upcoming season, including the two existing attractions, “Viktors Race” (a Zierer (...) read more
Plopsaland De Panne, the Belgian theme park belonging to the Belgian Plopsa Group, will invest a total of 2.5 million euros in the redesign of its “Ketnetzone” in the upcoming season, including the two existing attractions, “Viktors Race” (a Zierer (...) read more
A total of 12.5 million euros has been invested in the renovation of Leipzig Zoo‘s aquarium, the reconstruction of which took place between 2019 and 2021 – now, the zoological institution held the official opening ceremony for the new aquarium as (...) read more
Just a few weeks ago, the newest Topgolf facility opened in Oberhausen, Germany (cf. EAP news of 26 Jan 2022) and now the Dallas/Texas-based company has announced the next new location with Topgolf Glasgow, scheduled to open later this year. The new (...) read more
Under the motto of “Art Inspires Future“, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with special exhibition concepts, such as ”From Fauvism to Surrealism. Masterpieces from the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris”, which (...) read more
Animalive, the Brighton-based specialist in real-time interactive animation attractions, partners with Sueport, a creative technology agency and service provider for digital LBE headquartered in Amsterdam, in order to deliver several installations (...) read more
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
