A new visitor record was recently set at France’s theme park Futoroscope, located in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou. With a total of 16,243 guests on Wednesday, August 12 the previous record, set at a weekend of May this year, was broken. In addition to (...) read more
The camping and caravan industry is currently booming in Australia. The number of people spending their holidays at camping facilities has been steadily growing over the last few years, with families as the most important target group. For operators (...) read more
In 2014, the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom theme park was opened in Guangzhou, China (cf. EAP, issue 04/2014). Recently, a new attraction has entered the Penguin Hotel which belongs to Ocean Kingdom Resort. Performed by 16 life-sized animatronic penguins (...) read more
On September 12, 1997, Berlin’s Labyrinth Kindermuseum, a children’s museum, was opened with the bubbles exhibition “Babbels”. This year, the museum located in the socio-cultural center Fabrik Osloer Straße celebrates its 18th birthday. On this (...) read more
One year ago, Germany’s Emotion Media Factory, known for its multimedia show installations, announced the creation of two shows for Romon U-Park, located in the south of Ningbo, China (cf. EAP, issue 5/2014). Meanwhile, the 20-minutes shows are (...) read more
Until August 23, visitors of PortAventura have the possibility to see Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” show which Spain’s leisure resort hosts this summer (cf. EAP News from June 29, 2015). Up to now, more than 110,000 people attended the show, making (...) read more
According to an annual report tracking the attendance of theme parks released by Themed Entertainment Asscociation and AECOM, Lotte World has recorded an increase in attendance figures of 2.8 per cent from June last year to June this year. In total, (...) read more
In cooperation with Playland’s Castaway Cove’s owner Scott Simpson, the US-based ride manufacturer S&S Worldwide has developed a new roller coaster for New Jersey’s amusement park. The Triple Launch Coaster “Gale Force” will be targeted to families (...) read more
This past weekend, Edaville amusement park situated in Carver, Massachusetts saw the opening of the first Thomas Land theme park in the USA. Covering an area of 11.5 acres (around 47,000 square meters) within Edaville, the new attraction features (...) read more
This past weekend, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’ Chairman Bob Chapek gave an overview of the newest attractions to join the Disney theme parks around the world. According to these plans, visitors of Florida’s and California’s theme parks will be (...) read more
The new “Promotion Module”, developed by Austria’s software company TAC | The Assistant Company, gives hotel, fitness and spa operators the opportunity to appropriately market their offers and enlarge their distribution channels. In this way, (...) read more
In October 2012, the Casino Pier and Breakwater Beach leisure complex situated in Seaside Heights, New Jersey was hit by Hurricane Sandy. Nine month after the catastrophe, the park was accessible to visitors again but is still in the midst of its (...) read more
Since June, InterSPA Group’s first Wonnemar resort hotel is under construction in Wismar, Germany. The operator of Wonnemar health and adventure swimming pool complexes announced the hotel will be built in close proximity to Wonnemar Wismar and (...) read more
Following the opening of Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort™ located in the US state of Tennessee in July (cf. EAP News from July 29, 2015), Dollywood Company recently announced the addition of a new attraction to its theme park. In March 2016, “Lightning (...) read more
In cooperation with the German-Belgian artist Carsten Höller Germany’s slide manufacturer Josef Wiegand GmbH & Co. KG created two identical slides. Until September both 39 meter long tube slides, which are part of Höller’s exhibition “Decision”, (...) read more
The German Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (VDFU) calls for a revision of the amendments recently made to the documentation duty with regard to minimum wages. The new legislation does not include seasonal workers which, according to (...) read more
At the beginning of this month, the sports complex Surf Snowdonia in Dolgarrog, in the Conwy Valley, North Wales was opened. The surf park’s central attraction is a 300 meter long and 110 meter wide lagoon which can be used by 52 surfers at the same (...) read more
US-based Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, headquartered in Sandusky, Ohio reports record results for the first half of 2015. Until the end of June, the owner and operator of eleven amusement parks, three outdoor water parks, one indoor water park (...) read more
Yesterday, August 5, a new visitor record was set at Dutch Toverland amusement park, located close to Venlo. In total, a number of 11,000 guests, including 3,000 German visitors, spent their day in the park. Around 4 pm, the park management decided (...) read more
Recently, accesso® Technology Group plc, provider of technology solutions to leisure, entertainment and cultural markets, announced the signing of a long-term agreement with the British Merlin Entertainments Group Ltd. The contract provides the (...) read more
