“Gerstlauer Elektro GmbH” is now “Gerstlauer Amusement Rides GmbH”. According to company sources, considerable expansion in the product palette rendered the change necessary ...
For the second time already, the Tyrolean tourism region Serfaus-Fiss-Ladis is able to look forward to the Best-of-Austria Award: Within the scope of the ITB trade fair presentation of Österreich Werbung (ÖW – Austria advertising) in Berlin, major German tour operators and travel journalists nominated ...
The relatively mild climate in Central Europe this past winter has been welcomed by the construction industry ...
London, New York, Dubai: Three cities – one deal. Merlin Entertainments Group (“Merlin”), controlled by the Blackstone Group (“Blackstone”), and The Tussauds Group (“TTG”), controlled by Dubai International Capital LLC (“DIC”), are today announcing a partnership of two rapidly growing businesses – Merlin and Tussauds ...
According to an estimation by the Russian Ministry for Economic Development and Trade, the Russian tourism industry currently accounts for merely 1.5 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), ...
In the north of Budapest, Europe’s second largest recreational pool facility is to be built on 86,000-square metre large premises. The project planned by the Hungarian real estate developer InterEstate comprises ...
At the island resort of Sentosa just off the coast of Singapore, the 343,000 square metre large “Resorts World at Sentosa” is underway thanks to an overall investment volume of 2.6 billion euros. The mega project with numerous “resorts inside the resort” is scheduled to open in 2010 ...
On the 28th of March 2007, visitors can step out onto the glass Skywalk at Grand Canyon West for the very first time. Work on the project began back in March 2004 already. The Skywalk will be the highest free-floating observation deck ...
Legoland in California reached a record in visitors this past year. A total of 1.65 million people came to Legoland in Carlsbad ...
The four-star “Quellenhotel” (lit.: mineral spring hotel) is the heart of the Bad Waltersdorf health resort and has 350 beds. 370,000 people visited the Bad Waltersdorf curative spa and its Quellenhotel in 2006 ...
The holiday park operator Landal GreenParks can look back on a successful year in 2006. Growing numbers of guests and the optimisation of the service spectrum have ...
Candover Investments plc, one of the numerous American-British and generally very “hungry” investment firms, has announced the signing of an agreement on the takeover of Parques Reunidos ...
In the next few months, Bremen’s tourist magnet will be supplemented with a pavilion for new exhibition space and an outdoor area with numerous experimental stations ...
On the Wadden Sea island of Terschelling in one of the most popular holiday regions of the Netherlands, another Landal holiday park is being built across the Dutch coast and will open ...
Christophe Jeannest, CEO of Center Parcs Europe recently announced massive investments for new holiday parks and the expansion of existing facilities ...
The financing of the historical 13-hectare village facility in the north of Wolfsburg has been secured. A “finance package” of 2.25 million euros has been agreed upon for the project ...
New for 2007: “Science House” as Europa Park’s own science centre: In cooperation with the German sponsoring society Science und Technologie, a “science house” will be ...
For the first time in the history of the world’s oldest zoo, the 255-year old Tiergarten, a woman took up the reigns on the 1st of January 2007: Dr Dagmar Schratter. As reported by the Viennese press, the new Tiergarten director is planning a sort of “adventure path in the treetops”, ...
Ole Bested-Hensing has made it – or rather, he and his entire team of around 600 employees have: Tropical Islands in Krausnick (State of Brandenburg) opened to visitors right on time on the 27th of December 2006 after just eight weeks of construction ...
After around eight months of construction, the NaturTherme (nature spa) in Templin (Uckermark/Germany) opened to the public again on the 23rd of December 2006. In mid-2005, the ...
Sun, 25 October 2020
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