In summer 2019, TimeRide, provider of virtual city experiences, opened its third location in its founding city of Munich, where visitors since then have been able to enjoy a voyage over the Bavarian capital and through its history from “Barbarossa” (Frederick I., Holy Roman Emperor) to the first ever “Oktoberfest“ ...
Since its opening earlier this month, the world’s first water park for ladies only has been welcoming guests. Situated in Dana Bay on the shores of Half Moon Beach and developed by Jenan Real Estate, Loopagoon Waterpark offers a mix of waterslides and attractions as well as shopping and food options. On its ...
On the former grounds of the Zeche Werde I/II coal mine located in Werne (Germany, Ruhr Region), which was shut down in 1975, a new mega artificial surf spot called SURFWRLD will be developed. Plans for the new water attraction were presented recently by the Werne municipality and the project executing organisation ...
Today sees the reopening of the MOTIONGATE™ Dubai theme park and the Lapita™ theme hotel at Dubai Parks and Resorts, which had to shut down their operations on March 31st this year due to the corona pandemic. The Hollywood-based park and the Polynesian-themed hotel reopen now with enhanced safety ...
The Dutch SaaS company Convious, which with its “Convious Crowd Control” product offers an artificial intelligence-based platform for leisure attractions to manage the allotment of visitors (cf. our “Day X” special feature in EAP 4/2020), has now added the mobile ticketing app Tap (“Tick and Pay”, formerly “Tapperuse”) to its portfolio. Thanks to this newly integrated solution ...
For his conceptual work on the variety of gastronomic offerings at Europa-Park, the related waterworld Rulantica and the six park hotels, Thomas Mack recently received the award as “Most Successful Gastronomer of the Year“. The managing partner of Europa-Park received the award during the ceremony ...
This year, Sweden‘s Liseberg park would have celebrated the 40th anniversary of the “Applause Awards“, which are presented every two years during the IAAPA Expo in Orlando. Due to the postponement of the trade show by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions‘ (IAAPA) ...
Under the name of “Air Balloon Tbilisi”, a captive balloon delivered by the French company Aerophile has been hovering over the Georgian capital Tbilisi as a new tourist attraction since the beginning of August. With this new installation, the provider was able to realize its first balloon in the Caucasus region. The balloon ...
With a post on Twitter and Instagram, Phantasialand has been inviting its followers to explore the new "Rookburgh" theme area since yesterday. The world's first Flying Launch Coaster, which was developed and built by Vekoma – and which not only fans have been waiting for since three years – started now into ...
In 2017, the Lisbon-based company Turcultur (Turismo e Cultura de Portugal, Lda.) commissioned the Dutch storytelling specialists of Jora Vision with the concept development and planning of a new visitor center dedicated to a natural catastrophe – the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. With an estimated magnitude ...
As part of Tokyo Disney Resort‘s park expansion plans revealed in summer 2018, new attractions had been announced for the “Fantasyland“, “Toontown“ and “Tomorrowland“ theme areas (see EAP 3/2018 & EAP-News of 15 June 2018). Today saw the official announcement that some of these attractions will ...
During a “Breakfast Meeting for Tourism Politics“ at the German Bundestag, Jürgen Gevers (photo), MD of German Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (VDFU), and other association representatives pointed out the requirements of theme and amusement park operators in Germany, who are still ...
In the city of Glendale, located in the South-Western state of Arizona, temperatures easily reach 40 degrees Celsius during summer time, but access to public water areas is not given to the residents – a trip to the beach takes a five hour car ride to San Diego (california). So City Council of Glendale recently approved ...
Today sees the opening of YULLBE, an all-new free roaming and full-body tracking VR attraction located between Rulantica, the new water world of Europa-Park (cf. EAP 1/2020) and the related “Krønasår” theme hotel. Developed by MackNeXT in cooperation with VR Coaster and Vicon, the new LBE facility offers a capacity for up to 32 guests ...
This past weekend, the new Lindt Home of Chocolate experience located in Kilchberg, Switzerland opened its gates to visitors for the first time. Constructed in the direct neighborhood of the Lindt & Sprüngli Schweiz AG headquarters, the new chocolaty museum aims at informing visitors about all interesting facts ...
The fourth edition of the Virtuality trade show for new technologies, which was originally planned to take place as a physical trade show event in Paris in November this year, had to be cancelled by the organizers (the Virtuality Paris specialist committee around founder Olivier Godest) due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis with ...
The British beverage producer Diageo, who also produces the well-known Johnnie Walker whiskey brand, is developing a new retail and entertainment experience for whiskey enthusiasts. After a construction pause of three months, due to the government‘s Covid-19 guidelines, construction works of the ...
Registration is now open for “IAAPA EMEA Trade Summit”, an event which is being held for the very first time and is scheduled to take place at Germany’s Europa-Park in Rust (Baden-Wuerttemberg) from February 2-4, 2021. The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) invites industry ...
Spain’s PortAventura World theme park resort and the Spanish national soccer league LaLiga have formed a joint venture in order to develop a large-scale three-phase project, including new attractions in PortAventura and the construction of a complete new theme park to become the fourth destination of the resort ...
The Sonnentherme Lutzmannsburg, which is directly located on the Austrian-Hungarian border, recently enhanced its outdoor offerings by a new multilane stainless steel water slide by German manufacturer wiegand.waterrides. On a slide lenght of 25 metres, the “Rainbow“ offers a family-friendly slide ...
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Fri, 25 September 2020
International Trade Magazine for Specialists & Executives in the Leisure Business
