The French Pierre & Vacances-Center Parcs Group (P&V-CP Group), which currently unites six brands in tourism and further brands in real estate under one umbrella, announced this past Tuesday the strategic realignment of its corporate strategy in (...) read more
Today, Dutch theme park Toverland welcomes back visitors, celebrating the start of its anniversary season – exactly on this date some 20 years ago, the Sevenum-based leisure destination opened its gates for the very first time. As for now, visitors (...) read more
The Sunac Cultural Tourism City in Jiaxing (located about 100 km southwest of Shanghai) will receive a new type of roller coaster from the German manufacturer Maurer Rides, which will be the first installation of the “SC3000 NIL“ spinning coaster (...) read more
The management of Endless Surf, a business unit of WhiteWater West, which specializes in the development of artificial surfing destinations, has now been strengthened by Baptiste Caulonque (photo right) and Andrew Thatcher (photo right). Frenchman (...) read more
With an official groundbreaking ceremony, Zoo Osnabrück recently celebrated the start of a new construction project. At a volume of eight million euros, a new area called “Water Worlds” (German: Wasserwelten) is being built on an area of 5,000 (...) read more
The Linkspring Fun World water park in the Chinese city of Nantong (Jiangsu province) is the location of the world’s third Slide Wheel installation by German manufacturer Wiegand.Waterrides, following the Slide Wheel projects at Chimelong Water Park (...) read more
Germany’s Melos GmbH, which specializes in the development and production of coloured rubber granulates and system components for artificial turf pitches, multifunctional sports fields and playgrounds (among other products and services), has a new (...) read more
With the official season kick-off on April 30, Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark welcomed the first guests in its anniversary season 2021 – this year, the amusement park owned by the Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company and themed after Hershey sweets (...) read more
Since 1936, the “Hot Ice Show”, then “Ice Parades”, has been a central part of the entertainment offering at Blackpool Pleasure Beach (BPB). The ice show, which is held at the “Pleasure Beach Arena” (formerly “Ice Drome”), is one of the (...) read more
On 27 May, engineering professionals and aspiring engineers are invited to participate in a free webinar on the topic of risk assessment for amusement rides. “How to conduct a Risk Assessment” is hosted by Advantis and conducted by CEO Philipp (...) read more
The Australian Dreamworld theme park, which is operated by Ardent Leisure, released first details about a currently still non-binding agreement it has entered into with the accommodation developer Evolution Group to set-up plans for the park’s (...) read more
The holiday park chain Center Parcs Europe continues to expand. After only recently achieving a further step in the project on the German Baltic coast (cf. EAP news of 13 Apr 2021), the provider now announces its first location for Scandinavia. In (...) read more
As recently announced, Michel Commerman, who supported BoldMove Nation during the start-up phase in terms of technical planning and layout creation for dark rides and themed FEC concepts, will now be a permanent part of the young creative company, (...) read more
New dates have been announced for the IAAPA EMEA Spring Summit event, organized by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) in Belgium this year: it is now scheduled to take place from 29 June to 1 July. During the (...) read more
After the Klutensee-Bad in Luedinghausen became the first leisure pool in Germany to resume its operations yesterday – read our news here – water parks and leisure pools in four federal states of the country (Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony (...) read more
The Saraya Aqaba Waterpark, which is currently under development in the port city of Aqaba in Jordan, will be operated by Farah Experiences, an entity of Miral Asset Management. The Jordanian development company behind the water park project, Eagle (...) read more
Recently, the US operator group SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. announced its results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2021 and in that course also the appointment of Marc Swanson as CEO with immediate effect. Swanson has been serving as interim (...) read more
There are finally positive prospects for the bathing complexes, thermal spas and waterparks in Germany, too! Based on the model project funded by the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the general regulation issued by the Coesfeld district, (...) read more
In order to turn the 640-hectare Eilenriede urban forest of Hannover into a close-to-nature experience, Hannover Adventure Zoo and the city of Hannover presented a first idea sketch for the development of a “Forest Experience World”. The concept (...) read more
After the French government published a multi-stage plan last week for easing the Covid-19 restrictions in the country – which, however, left open when exactly amusement parks, zoos and water parks will be allowed to reopen (cf. EAP news of 29 April (...) read more
