Under the working title of “The Red Sea Project“, a large-scale new tourism destination is being developed on the west coast of Saudi Arabia. Covering an area of some 28,000 square kilometers, including both sections of the country’s coastline and (...) read more
Turkish Polin Group, the main business field of which is the production and implementation of water slides, is further strengthening its presence in the Western European market. Following the establishment of Polin West Europe SAS in Paris in 2019 – (...) read more
Just now, Heide Park Resort, which is operated by Merlin Entertainments, has announced that the lawsuit for the opening of the park before the Lüneburg administrative court was granted. Thus, the park now plans to reopen for visitors at short (...) read more
To save the Vancouver Aquarium from permanent closure, Herschend Family Entertainment, operator of numerous leisure destinations throughout the USA including Silver Dollar City, Dollywood and Kentucky Kingdom (cf. EAP News of 25 Feb 2021), has (...) read more
For the new “Fantasy Springs“ theme port already under development at Tokyo DisneySea, the DisneyParks Blog now shows detailed concept plans for its three related theme areas of “Frozen“, “Peter Pan“ and “Tangled“ in recently posted videos. In 2018, (...) read more
Germany’s Hannover Adventure Zoo will further optimise its pricing strategy and visitor flow by the complete digitization of the customer journey. The zoological leisure destination has started a cooperation with Dutch company Convious, a leading (...) read more
Founded in 1983 by the Vourderis family, Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park (today: Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park) was created around the “Wonder Wheel” Ferris wheel, which was built back in 1920 and has carried the name addition “Deno’s” since 1983 when (...) read more
On Friday, LEGOLAND® Florida celebrated the opening of its new interactive building experience “Planet LEGOLAND“. Children as well as their parents are now able to unleash their creativity and build phantastic LEGO® brick sculptures at four stations (...) read more
Based in Lenggries, Bavaria, the KristallTurm® company has been known for its free-standing high ropes courses and climbing facilities for over ten years now and has already implemented numerous projects worldwide – from Berlin to Dubai and (...) read more
With the launch of its new and open innovation platform INNOKIND, Turkish waterslide manufacturer Polin Waterparks aims at offering a platform for exchange and collaboration of industry professionals, academicians, students and park visitors. (...) read more
With an all-new theme area, Britain’s Drayton Manor theme park is launching a new family-friendly and nautic-themed experience world. “Adventure Cove“ includes new and re-themed attractions for the young and young-at-heart. During their stay, guests (...) read more
The Ernst Leitz Museum in the German city of Wetzlar (Hesse), which has made a name for itself over the past two years as a museum for high-quality photographic art (photography and photographic technology), is changing strategy. In order to (...) read more
Preparations for the three trade show events organized by the International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions (IAAPA) are moving forward. Attendee registration is now open for IAAPA Expo Asia, scheduled to take place from August 11-13 at (...) read more
After its premiere last year, the Dutch amusement park Toverland will again operate a pop-up campsite near the wooden roller coaster “Troy” as a temporary accommodation offering this summer (cf. EAP news of 3 Aug 2020). From May 1st to September (...) read more
During the first edition of its “Fun Week” – an online product & project presentation format by Zamperla to take place once per month until the end of this year – the Italian manufacturer launched its new spinning attraction ”Gryphon”, being one of (...) read more
Since the beginning of March this year, Olivier Garaïalde (photo right) has been supporting the management team of the European holiday park provider as a member of the Management Board and new CEO of Center Parcs Europe. With more than 30 years of (...) read more
Ride Entertainment, the US-based sales and support company for the leisure and attractions industry, welcomes two new key additions to their team: Kris Rowberry, who takes over the role als the company’s Communications Manager, and Ed Hodgdon as new (...) read more
The Plantsch leisure bathing complex, located in Schongau, Bavaria, will expand its attractions line-up by adding a new tube slide in the near future. Swiss manufacturer Klarer has been commissioned with the design of the new slide attraction. The (...) read more
With effect from 1st of May 2021, Tim Golstein (photo) will take over as new Director of Avonturenpark Hellendoorn. He succeeds Lyan van den Bosch, who, after almost nine years at the helm of the Dutch amusement park, is now taking on a new (...) read more
With a virtual handover of the traditional coin by “Captain Minnie Mouse” and the subsequent lowering of the ship’s first block, Meyer Werft and Disney Cruise Line yesterday celebrated via video conference the keel laying of the new ocean vessel (...) read more
