Last Friday the annual IAAPA Expo 2019 came to an end. The International Association of Amusement Parks & Attractions (IAAPA) recently released this year‘s results of the trade show. With a total of 42,600 attendees, which informed themselves (...) read more
October 28, 2020 will see the premiere of the first resident Cirque du Soleil show in Europe, named “Nysa” – debuting in the Theater am Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. This was announced by the Canadian entertainment group earlier this week. Presented (...) read more
Theo Pagel, director of Cologne Zoo since 2007, has recently been introduced as new President of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) at the association‘s annual conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With this appointment, Pagel is (...) read more
Following the announcement of German leisure park Tripdsdrill (Baden-Wuerttemberg) to add two new rollercoasters for the upcoming 2020 season to its attractions portfolio (cp. EAP news of 4 Nov 2019), today further details on both new additions from (...) read more
The design company Scruffy Dog Group, with offices in London, Barcelona and Shanghai, announced the appointment of Jim Bowen as new Global Business Development Director yesterday. In his 25 years of work experience in the entertainment and real (...) read more
After its debut in Osaka in 2018, “Godzilla VR“ has now been brought to the UK and celebrated ist premiere in London’s event arena The O2. In addition to “Mario Kart VR“, Godzilla VR will be an other immersive experience by Bandai Namco Amusement (...) read more
The recipients of the “TEA Thea Awards”, the “industry Oscar” of the international entertainment industry, issued by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), were officially announced yesterday during the IAAPA Expo 2019 in Orlando/Florida. (...) read more
Earlier this week, the British animation professionals at Aardmand and Dutch P&P Projects presented their brand-new concept of “A Fish Tale“ for the theme park market. The totally new storyline was created especially for the amusement park (...) read more
As announced yesterday on the first day of IAAPA Expo 2019 in Orlando, Triotech, the Canadian supplier of multi-media attractions, will create a new interactive 4D dark ride for California’s Knott’s Berry Farm theme park, celebrating the park’s (...) read more
Under the name of “Hyperdeck”, US firm of MajorMega is offering a VR attraction which combines the visual effects of the virtual experience with additional multi-sensory effects such as wind, heat and motion . The attraction is powered by a 3 DOF (...) read more
When LEGOLAND® New York Resort opens its doors on July 4th, 2020 as the largest Legoland theme park ever built, “LEGO® Factory Adventure Ride” will be the world’s first dark ride with on-ride tracking technology available for visitors – as was (...) read more
The Mexican tourism developer Grupo Vidanta yesterday announced the purchase of their first attractions for the new amusement park collection Vidanata World in Nuevo Vallarta (Nayarit, Mexico), which includes numerous theme parks and is currently (...) read more
One year ago the 15 million euro renovation project for the Hotel Royal**** Superior at EurothermenResort Bad Ischl was completed. Now the operator group looks back on a first successful year after reopening. “The sales growth of the new renovated (...) read more
Today marks the start of IAAPA Expo 2019 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. From Tuesday, 19 November to Friday, 22 November more than 1,100 exhibiting companies will showcase and inform visitors about the new trends and (...) read more
The Japanese company teamLab, which is specialised in the installation of interactive, immersive and digital art projects, and the hotel complex Sands Resorts Macao recently announced the name of a new teamLab museum, which is supposed to open in (...) read more
The Museum Rotterdam currently presents the interactive “Girlpower“ exhibition, which shows the stories of internationally successful Rotterdam women and girls in sports. The exhibition was opened by the ten-year-old Dutch world champion of (...) read more
Virtuix, the Austin-based provider of the esports attraction “Omni Arena“ (cf. EAP news 23 Nov 2018), and the foot traffic generation platform Hownd™ announced their partnership. Hownd will accesss the Omni Arena player database to generate email (...) read more
Today the official new headline sponsor of London’s tourist attraction London Eye, which is operated by entertainment company Merlin Entertainments, was announced – lastminute.com. The online travel agency’s sponsorship will start in February 2020, (...) read more
During the 74th annual conference of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) in Buenos Aires/Argentina last week, Switzerland‘s Zoo Zurich was honored with the “WAZA Conservation Award” for its conservation project on the Masoala (...) read more
Earlier this month, the newest ship in the fleet of US-based Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) company, the “Norwegian Encore”, set sail for its maiden voyage – from Europe, the new giant vessel crossed the Atlantic ocean towards the US east coast, from (...) read more
