The Dutch Efteling theme park is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and is looking to the future with confidence despite the current pandemic-related closure of cultural and leisure facilities in the Netherlands. The plans are comprehensive: (...) read more
Burbank, California-based Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) – serving the creators, developers, designers and producers from the global themed entertainment industry – announced the members of its new Executive Committee for 2021/2022. The new (...) read more
True to its motto “standstill is regression“, Germany‘s Traumland auf der Bärenhöhle leisure park, located about an hour‘s drive south of Stuttgart, is constantly striving to further develop its existing visitor offerings. Founded in 1974 and now (...) read more
Today, the Dubai Parks & Resorts theme park and entertainment complex celebrates the opening of several new attractions: Visitors to MOTIONGATETM can now experience the two new coasters “John Wick: Open Contract“ (an installation of the “4D Free (...) read more
After more than five years, Janne Nilsson (l.) will step down as CEO at Skara Sommarland (part of Parks and Resorts Scandinavia) effective next summer. The management of the park will in future be taken over by Christine Karmfalk (r.), the current (...) read more
For the third time in a row, Rostock Zoo has been named Europe’s most successful zoo in the category of over 500,000 to one million visitors annually by British zoo expert Anthony D. Sheridan with a “Best European Zoo Award”. Rostock Zoo also ranked (...) read more
At the Six Flags Fiesta Texas high-thrill amusement park (located in San Antonio, Texas), visitors can now experience the venue’s “SkyScreamer“ StarFlyer attraction (from Funtime) in the prone position in addition to the classic seating position to (...) read more
The “Norwegian Prima“ ocean liner currently under construction at the Italian Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera – the first of six ships in this new series (class?) of the American cruise line company Norwegian Cruise Line/NCL – which is scheduled to (...) read more
The future visitor offering of Pradera Islands, a new theme park under development on the Philippines (in the Pradera Verde tourism area) whose groundbreaking ceremony took place in late 2019, will include versatile immersive and family-friendly (...) read more
Dutch software developer Convious recently added a new Managing Director for UK and Ireland to its team – with immediate effect Andy Povey (pictured) supports the London-based team around Business Director Adam Thompson (cf. EAP news of 8 Nov 2021) (...) read more
With Fabrique des Lumières, the French company Culturespaces Digital® is realizing a new location of its fascinating “Atelier des Lumières“ digital art museum concept (cf. EAP 3/2020), this time in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam‘s culture park of (...) read more
The Montreal, Canada-based multimedia production firm Moment Factory and the technology platform disguise (headquartered in London with offices in the US, Dubai and Asia) have recently announced their collaboration to use their combined expertise in (...) read more
After Universal recently announced several changes at the top management level for its international park locations (cf. EAP News of 2 Dec 2021), there is now another change at Universal Studios Hollywood: Scott Strobl (photo), who served as Senior (...) read more
Are you interested in an electric powered passenger train for your leisure park or attraction facility to make the visitor experience even more comfortable for your guests and to better connect your attractions? Karls offers for sale an almost new, (...) read more
Jose Tolosa has been named new Chief Executive Officer of the art collective Meow Wolf. This news was recently announced by the company, which currently operates three permanent exhibitions in Santa Fe, Las Vegas (see EAP 3/21) and Denver (see EAP (...) read more
In the Aqua Mundo water park at Center Parcs Allgäu in Germany, which opened in 2018 (cf. EAP 6/2019), guests can now try out a virtual snorkeling experience in addition to the existing “real“ snorkeling offer in the snorkeling pool with tropical (...) read more
During this year’s “Dubai Shopping Festival“, the Mall of the Emirates draws additional visitors and customers with a temporary Harry Potter experience: Since this week and still until February 10th, the shopping center is hosting “Harry Potter – (...) read more
One of the most important topics which Zurich Zoo is dedicated to is species conservation. To further expand this area and create the infrastructure for conservation breeding of endangered species, the new “Ornis” Species Conservation Center has now (...) read more
Following the successful implementation of the Youseum concept at the Westfield Mall of the Netherlands in Leidschendam, the Netherlands (another Youseum attraction is located in the city center of Amsterdam), the Westfield Centro in Oberhausen, (...) read more
After around 20 years of professional experience in the themed entertainment industry, including five years at Los Angeles-based Thinkwell Group in positions such as Senior Art Director, Jason McManus has now been promoted to Principle at Thinkwell. (...) read more
