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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 – (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
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 (...) read more
Opened in November 2019, the sports and leisure attraction CLYMBTM Abu Dhabi (cf. EAP news of 31 Oct 2019) offers guests the chance to experience two record-breaking attractions: the world’s largest indoor skydiving flight chamber as well as the (...) read more
Already in November 2018, at IAAPA Expo in Orlando, Turkish waterslide manufacturer Polin Waterparks launched “Glassy“– a transparent fibreglas waterslide (cf. EAP 1/2019). This summer, the first fully transparent composites waterslide has been (...) read more
In the East of Ho Chi Minh City, which is located in South Vietnam, a new city area will be developed as a new hub for the technical industry and innovation. The new twelve billion US dollar (around 10.1 billion euros) city development project also (...) read more
