The Jacksonville, Florida-based company Sally Dark Rides, which is specialised into the development of dark ride experiences, recently announced the appointment of Rolf Paegert (photo) as new Chief Operation Officer. Paegert has more than three (...) read more
Germany’s family-friendly vacation & leisure park Ferienzentrum Schloss Dankern located in the Emsland-region has been welcoming back guests since the end of June. “I am pleased to see that the park is revitalized”, says park owner Friedhelm (...) read more
Dubai‘s IMG Worlds of Adventure indoor theme park has been open to visitors again since July 10th. The adventure destination, which is dedicated to the characters well known from the Marvel and CN comics, has changed its pricing structures. From now (...) read more
Austin, Texas-based and VR-dedicated Virtuix, implemented a new pirate-themed game for ist “Omni Arena“ esports attraction. In “Blackbeard: The Trials of Skull Island“ players will immerse into the role of four pirates, which work together to loot (...) read more
The Europa-Park turns 45 – if that is not a cause for celebration? Germany’s largest theme park located in Rust (Baden) will turn its park ground into a huge birthday party. On Sunday, July 12th visitors will experience a blue and yello day at the (...) read more
This Saturday, after three years of construction time and a delayed opening date due to the corona pandemic, Gulliver’s Valley Theme Park will welcome guests for the first time (cf. EAP news of 9 May 2017). Located in Rotherham (South Yorkshire), (...) read more
In downtown Copenhagen, right around the corner of the city hall, a new recreational city park called “Vesterbro Passage“ is planned. The project includes the transformation of a multi-lane road to a 14,000 square metres-large city park. To provide (...) read more
In order of the ground development for its new and third theme park Epic Universe, which is scheduled to open in 2023, Universal Orlando Resort has received a million dollar financial help from the Orange County. To relocate a large wastewater (...) read more
The Therme Group, which was founded in Austria, recently announced the appointment of Adrian Ion as new Executive Vice President for Corporate Finances and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ion will assume responsibility for financial oversight and (...) read more
This summer season, Center Parcs park De Eemhof wants to update its visitor experiences with diverse additions. The “AquaMundo“ indoor water world will feature the new “Duo Racer“, type Body2Racer supplied by German manufacturer Aquarena. On a slide (...) read more
Since May 29th, the indoor pools of Therme Wien are open again open to visitors – now, one month later, also the sauna area of the thermal bathing facility has been reopened. Again, Therme Wien developed extensive safety and hygiene measures for the (...) read more
Despite the fact, that Sweden’s theme Parks are not allowed to open this summer due to an outdated legislation, which separates parks into two sections – with and without mechanical amusement rides – developments at Liseberg are not on hold. The (...) read more
German manufacturer Wiegand.Waterrides supplied the world’s first stainless steel 8-lane mat racer, to the recently opened water park in Xiangyang, China, which was developed by the OTC Group. The new attraction starts on a height of 15 meters and (...) read more
The Nederweert-based ETF Group has taken over the assets and employees of SOIOS B.V., a Dutch company which develops, produces and assembles electronically or solar energy powered road trains for person and freight transport. The trains, which are (...) read more
Intu Properties, the real estate and investment company headquartered in London which operates a number of shopping malls in the UK and Spain, goes into administration in order to avert imminent insolvency. The KPMG accounting organization was lined (...) read more
Sweet treats are not only available at Movie Park Germany in the new Dunkin’ Donuts Store (read our article “Food Brands in the Park”, EAP 4/2020), but also in the revamped “Candy & Sweets” candy shop, which with its new American Diner style fits (...) read more
On one side of the building walls of CopenHill – a power plant in Denmark‘s capital Copenhagen, which is also used as an urban mountain sports facility – an 80-metres-high and 10-metres-wide multi-pitch climbing wall is currently under construction, (...) read more
According to the current corona protection measures by the German government, public events will still be prohibited throughout the country through 31 October 2020. Therefore, numerous traditional folk festivals have been cancelled. Some German (...) read more
The Walt Disney Company just announced a complete make-over of its “Splash Mountain“ log flume rides at Disneyland Park California and Magic Kingdom Park in Florida. Where visitors have been immersed into the world of “Song of the South“, a Disney (...) read more
Today, after around 24,500 working hours, Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg launches its new miniature funfair, which is located in the “Central Germany“ section. Just before the forced closure due to the corona pandemic, the main part of the 750,000 (...) read more
