Sandusky, Ohio-based Cedar Fair Entertainment Company has announced that Monica Sauls will serve as Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer from now on. Sauls has more than twenty years of experience in senior HR roles. Most recently, she served as Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer at the chicken restaurant chain Bojangles ...
The Belgian media company Studio 100, known for its popular children’s TV series, has relieved the CEO of its theme park division Plopsa Group, Steve Van den Kerkhof (48, photo), of his duties with immediate effect. The separation is the company’s reaction to complaints from part of the workforce ...
Chloe Hausfeld has been serving the amusement and entertainment industry for twelve years now. After helding the role as Vice President at the creative design company Jack Rouse Associates (JRA), which today is part of the RWS Entertainment Group, Hausfeld is now joining Baynum Amusement Solutions, where she will serve as a director. Hausfeld is also part of the ...
Next Saturday (25 March), the largest artificial standing wave of the citywave brand to date will be put into operation at Ewa Beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu (not far from the capital Honolulu). Over 30 metres wide, the wave planned by the Munich-based family business Action Team ...
Located in the Vendée region of western France, the O’Fun Park adventure and activity park offers its guests a wide range of different outdoor recreational activities, including tree-top climbing, ziplining, daring jumps from the “Water Jump”, paintball, mini-golfing, pony rides, and much more. In the neighboring O’Gliss Park, the water park opened in 2016 ...
The opening date for SeaWorld’s theme park announced in 2016, its first location outside North America, has been set. As announced by Arabian company Miral, SeaWorld® Yas Island in Abu Dhabi is scheduled to open on May 23, 2023!On five indoor levels with a total area of 183,000 square meters, more than 100,000 marine animals from 150 different species ...
As of this year’s season, visitors to Movie Park Germany will once again have the option to make use of a dog care service that the park had already offered temporarily a few years ago and is now reviving. In cooperation with the dog accessory brand Dogstyler®, guests with dogs have the opportunity to have ...
Attractiepark Slagharen has announced the novelties for its upcoming anniversary season. With the park opening on April 1, guests can look forward to a new show. “Uit Je Bol met Randy en Rosie” (Randy’s and Rosie’s heyday) is the name of the new park show starring mascots Randy and Rosie. It will be presented in the Music Hall. On May 27, Slagharen will celebrate its 60th anniversary ...
After almost three years, the 42nd ESU Congress, which was attended by participants from nine nations, could take place again in presence. After the problems of the Corona pandemic were evaluated, the European showmen dedicated themselves to the current and future tasks. These include, for example, EU education projects for the next generation of showmen ...
On 16 June this year, the doors of the new Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter will open for the first time to Harry Potter fans from Japan and guests from all over the world. The experience world of film scenes and sets, which is modelled on the Harry Potter Studio Tour in London that opened in 2012 ...
In the upcoming 2023 season, visitors to the Duinrell vacation and leisure park in the Netherlands can look forward to the following novelties: two new playground elements for younger park guests as well as a renewed themed area and expanded overnight accommodations. The new attractions are for one thing the new playground element “Wauwels Nest”, which ...
The Dutch Center Parcs vacation park provider has long been guided by principles such as sustainability, environmental protection and regionalism. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the company’s receipt of the internationally recognized “ISO 14001” certification. In 2017, the certificate was extended to “ISO 50001”, which ...
As was announced today, the opening date for the new themed area called “Le Festival Toutatis” and its signature ride, the LSM launch coaster “Toutatis”, has now been settled: As of 8th April, visitors to the amusement park located north of Paris will be able to discover the park’s season novelties. After the park, which is part of ...
The British Blackpool Pleasure Beach theme park has announced the return of its iconic “Valhalla” dark ride this season. The water ride from manufacturer Intamin was opened in 2000 and since then, until its temporary closure in 2019, has been thrilling visitors to the park and never let them go dry. However, water is not the only element of the dark ride; fire and ice are also part of the experience. In April 2023, the modernized attraction can be experienced by ...
Germany’s Freizeitpark Irrland in Kevelaer, North Rhine-Westphalia, near the Dutch border, started into this year’s season yesterday – visitors can look forward to several novelties in the course of the next months, such as an extension of the “railway station” playground in the form of new climbing and hiding facilities, which will again be realised ...
The Norwegian amusement park Kongeparken, which belongs to the Lund Gruppen, has announced a new attraction for this summer. “Raset” is the name of the new attraction, which is a Disk’ O coaster from the Italian manufacturer Zamperla. For the construction of the attraction, 10,000 cubic meters of stone have already been blasted away, so that the future ride can be built into the rock ...
The Norwegian amusement park Kongeparken, which belongs to the Lund Gruppen, has announced a new attraction for this summer. “Raset” is the name of the new attraction, which is a Disk’ O coaster from the Italian manufacturer Zamperla. For the construction of the attraction, 10,000 cubic meters of stone have already been blasted away, so that the future ride can be built into the rock ...
Ahead of the 2023 season kick-off tomorrow, construction has already begun on a new overnight offering at LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort, which is part of the Merlin Entertainments Group. In addition to the LEGOLAND® Resort and Castle Hotel, guests will be able to stay at the new LEGOLAND® Woodland Village as of spring 2024. On ten acres of land ...
Today is the day: the first theme park in the Dominican Republic, KatmanduTM Park Punta Cana, officially opens its doors to its guests after a soft opening phase. The developer and operator of the theme park is the American company Falcon’s Beyond, which has collaborated with Meliá Hotels International for this project. The cooperation is intended to ...
Zurich Zoo has announced the construction of a new big cat facility as part of its “Development Plan 2050”. “Panterra” will be its name, which is composed of “Panthera” (genus name of the actual big cats) and the Latin word “Terra” for earth. The construction of the facility will begin in July this year and is expected to be completed by April 2025 ...
Wed, 22 March 2023
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