The Pope´s guards recently made their annual excursion, this time to Germany’s Europa-Park. With 50 men one third of the Swiss Guard, the unit responsible for the Pope´s security, enjoyed the trip. All of them are Swiss citizens and Catholics, have (...) read more
As Gardaland CEO Aldo Maria Vigevani announced yesterday, the Italian Gardaland Resort plans to open Europe’s first LEGOLAND ® Water Park in 2020. It will also be the world’s first LEGO waterpark in an amusement park which is not completely under (...) read more
The Mote Park Outdoor Adventure is a leisure and recreational park located in Maidstone (county of Kent) in Southeast England, owned by the Maidstone Borough Council and operated by Serco Leisure Operating Ltd.. The destination welcomes over one (...) read more
Brunswick Bowling Products recently released the augmented reality bowling experience “Spark TM”, an immersive and interactive scoring experience. The Spark projection system is connected to the company´s sync-scoring-system “Sync® Invicta”, which (...) read more
The Hallenbad Delphin (“Dolphin Indoor Swimming Pool”) – a 40-year old municipal sports pool complex located in the German town of Lübbenau/Brandenburg – has been closed for extensive renovation works, including an energetic renovation of the (...) read more
On 30 June, KölnBäder GmbH Managing Director Gerhard Reinke has left the company. Reinke, who has thus worked for the multi-site bathing complex operator for 13 years, has always been committed to pushing ahead with a trendsetting concept for (...) read more
For an investment sum of just under 45 million EUR (51 million USD), a new visitor aquarium is set to open its doors in Branson (Missouri) in the summer of 2020, being part of the development plans from California-based Kuvera Partners (operator (...) read more
The Cedar Fair Entertainment Company announced yesterday that the US operating group acquired Sawmill Creek Resort located in Huron, Ohio, which is only minutes away from their amusement park Cedar Point. The resort spans a total of 235 acres and (...) read more
The Guangzhou Sunac Land cultural tourism complex (located in Guangzhou, near Hong Kong) has recently opened its coaster novelty "Dueling Dragons", a dueling triple LSM launch coaster supplied by Intamin. Riders sit in two trains (one featuring a (...) read more
The opening date for the new indoor theme park destination, which is currently being built on the Chinese island of Hengqin (Zhuhai Province), has just been announced: Lionsgate Entertainment World® at Novotown Phase I will open its doors to the (...) read more
Danish Lalandia Resort which is located in Billund near Legoland Park has expanded its visitor offer by the addition of two new attractions this year: a Klarer Turbo Racer water slide and a KristallTurm® high ropes course. The twelve meter long (...) read more
After the deal of the cooperation between The London Resort (formerly: “London Paramount”, we recently reported in EAP news of 14 May 2019) and the US film production company Paramount Pictures had been discontinued in mid-2017 (cp. EAP news of 24 (...) read more
This season, Italy’s Fiabilandia family theme park, which is located in Rimini on the North-Italian Adria coast, has added a new Preston & Barbieri junior coaster to its visitor offer, dubbed “Red Mountain”. The new family attraction features one (...) read more
A consortium consisting of the Danish Lego owner family Kristiansen and two other investors (the private equity firm Blackstone and the Canadian CPPIB pension fund) has submitted an acquisition offer for the British operating group Merlin (...) read more
Vienna Zoo (G.: Tiergarten Schönbrunn) plans to replace its over fifty year-old aquarium house by a new facility, which is set to be built into a slope between the zoo’s existing rainforest house and rhinoceros park, comprising five levels both (...) read more
Dutch Hof van Saksen holiday resort, which belongs to the portfolio of Landal Green Parks, will open its new “Saltato” slide attraction next week (on July 5th), a 195-meter long funnel slide supplied by Van Egdom. Guests to the resort’s indoor (...) read more
Ten years ago, Bremerhaven/Germany's Klimahaus Bremerhaven 8° Ost science and experience center opened its doors for the first time (cf. EAP 6/09 & EAP 2/19). Since then the visitor attraction, which is dedicated to the knowledge transfer on (...) read more
As announced today, Thomas Meier will take over the management of GMF Neuried & Co. KG (GMF) effective from 1st of July 2019 and thus following in the footsteps of Managing Director Rainer Pethran. Pethran, who joined the company about 30 years (...) read more
Yesterday saw the opening of a new VR roller coaster experience called “Crazy Bats” at Germany’s Phantasialand theme park, which according to its own statement is the longest VR coaster in the world. The four-minute experience was installed on the (...) read more
Succeeding Karen Oertley, Mary Jane Brewer (photo) recently took over as new Executive Director of the US-based AIMS International industry association, which is dedicated to the introduction of and compliance with high safety standards at theme (...) read more
