Located in Gothenburg/Sweden, Liseberg amusement park yesterday announced the construction of a new dark ride attraction, slated to open at the beginning of the 2020 season as part of the 200 million SEK (approx. 19 million EUR) expansion of its (...) read more
Construction works on “Rulantica” – the new water park of Germany’s Europa-Park (cf. EAP 6/17 & EAP News f. Dec 12th, 2018) – continue at full steam: After the installation of the first slides at the water park’s west slide tower, this week saw (...) read more
The Karlsruher Bäder municipal bathing complex operator, including ten indoor & outdoor pools in the city of Karlsruhe/Germany, has taken stock for the 2018 financial year, during which a total of 609,858 bathing guests were welcomed at the four (...) read more
Canada’s Triotech company – the Montréal-based provider of interactive, media-based attractions – yesterday announced the appointment of Sylvain Larose (photo) as new Chief Operating Officer of the company. Larose, who until very recently held the (...) read more
Today, Germany’s Serengeti-Park in Hodenhagen/Lower Saxony has revealed new offers for visitors set to be launched this upcoming season, into which the animal and leisure park will start on March 30th. Highlights include a transportable indoor (...) read more
US operating group SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. has recently announced the results of its 2018 financial year, which – after decreasing success in 2017 (cf. EAP News from Feb 27th, 2018) – again show growth in both revenue and attendance figures. (...) read more
British Merlin Entertainments operating group has recently announced the preliminary results of its 2018 financial year, showing an organic revenue growth of 5.2 percent. For the year ended December 29th, 2018 Merlin recorded revenues of 1.65 (...) read more
Today will see the official opening of the new anniversary attraction “Filmstadt Atelier” at Bavaria Filmstadt in Geiselgasteig near Munich, a permanent interactive exhibition celebrating 100 years of Bavarian film studios. Film classics such as (...) read more
In early December of last year, Germany’s Spreewelten bathing & swimming pool complex, located in Lübbenau, celebrated its re-opening after extensive renovation works – with new penguin storytelling, interactive waterslides and much more (read our (...) read more
In the Austrian community of Wildschönau, located in the Tyrol Alpes region, a new leisure park could soon become a reality in order to make the popular winter sports destination also attractive in the summer in terms of recreational activities for (...) read more
For over a year, Scruffy Dog has had a presence in Dubai (UAE), and now the British design company has opened a new satellite office in the city to better serve their customers in the Middle East region. “This was the natural step to take to ensure (...) read more
The “Hermann Monument” (G.: Hermannsdenkmal) in the Teutoburg Forest region (Germany), commemorating the Cherusci war chief “Arminius” as the “first German” and his victory over Rome in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (in 9 AD), is the largest (...) read more
A s announced by Los Angeles/California-based Thinkwell Group last week, the global experience design company has recently acquired Réalisations-Montréal, a company specialized in new technologies (e.g. big data, artificial intelligence, or (...) read more
Yesterday, Viad Corporation, specialized amongst others in travel and recreation services in the US and Canada through its Pursuit business unit (a provider of attractions and hotels), announced plans to develop a new flying theater attraction in (...) read more
In February this year, Florian Ruckert (photo) has joined the management board of Germany’s JUMP House Holding GmbH and its related subsidiaries, leading the group’s business at the side of company founders Till Walz and Christoph Ahmadi. JUMP (...) read more
With a total of almost 2.8 million guests in 2018, the Dubai Parks & Resorts (DPR) theme park complex has recorded an increase of 22 percent in visitors compared to the last year (cp. EAP news f. 5 Feb 2018), as reported by operating group DXB (...) read more
“Elysium City” is the name of a new mega project to be realized close to the municipality of Castilblanco in the Spanish province of Badajoz (in the autonomous community of Extremadura in western Spain). It comprises two development phases, the (...) read more
Featuring numerous attractions as well as shopping and dining options, The Island is another attractive entertainment destination for families with kids in Pigeon Forge/Tennessee, besides Dolly Parton’s well-known Dollywood amusement park. As was (...) read more
With 40 million guests since its opening in 2000, Autostadt Wolfsburg has reached a new visitor milestone this month. Over the past 18 years, the theme and experience world has clearly exceeded its original goal of welcoming around one million (...) read more
California’s Universal Studios Hollywood theme park recently started a cooperation with Berlin/Germany-based bookingkit company, provider of ticketing sales and administration software, to offer visitors from Europe the opportunity to book limited (...) read more
