Today marks the start of IAAPA Expo 2019 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. From Tuesday, 19 November to Friday, 22 November more than 1,100 exhibiting companies will showcase and inform visitors about the new trends and (...) read more
The Japanese company teamLab, which is specialised in the installation of interactive, immersive and digital art projects, and the hotel complex Sands Resorts Macao recently announced the name of a new teamLab museum, which is supposed to open in (...) read more
The Museum Rotterdam currently presents the interactive “Girlpower“ exhibition, which shows the stories of internationally successful Rotterdam women and girls in sports. The exhibition was opened by the ten-year-old Dutch world champion of (...) read more
Virtuix, the Austin-based provider of the esports attraction “Omni Arena“ (cf. EAP news 23 Nov 2018), and the foot traffic generation platform Hownd™ announced their partnership. Hownd will accesss the Omni Arena player database to generate email (...) read more
Today the official new headline sponsor of London’s tourist attraction London Eye, which is operated by entertainment company Merlin Entertainments, was announced – lastminute.com. The online travel agency’s sponsorship will start in February 2020, (...) read more
During the 74th annual conference of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) in Buenos Aires/Argentina last week, Switzerland‘s Zoo Zurich was honored with the “WAZA Conservation Award” for its conservation project on the Masoala (...) read more
Earlier this month, the newest ship in the fleet of US-based Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) company, the “Norwegian Encore”, set sail for its maiden voyage – from Europe, the new giant vessel crossed the Atlantic ocean towards the US east coast, from (...) read more
Together The VOID, one of the business-leading companies for VR attractions for commercial locations, and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality created the new VR experience “Jumanji: Reverse the Curse“. The new immersive game is related to the upcoming (...) read more
From Nov 21st to 23rd next week, the CINTQUATRE-PARIS cultural center will host the third edition of the VIRTUALITY trade show, the marketplace for new, immersive technologies in the entertainment sector. During the three-day event, visitors to (...) read more
VR is everywhere! Opened in 2012 (cp. EAP 2/2013), Germany’s Thermen & Badewelt Sinsheim, whose offer is primarily focused on wellness and bathing fun, now offers its guests fun and thrills with a new virtual reality experience. Until the end of (...) read more
After a planning phase of four years and the demolition of the old pool structures in 2018, Horner Bad (Bremen, Germany) recently celebrated its foundation stone ceremony. Plans for the new outdoor pool area were already made official in 2016 (cf. (...) read more
After the announcement of different changes on management level this past August (cf. EAP news 9. Aug 2019), SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. appointed Sergio (Serge) D. Rivera to new Chief Executive Officer of the company and member of the Board of (...) read more
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation recently announced the appointment of Brian Machamer to future park president of the new Six Flags Qiddiya theme park in Saudi Arabia (cf. EAP news 27 Aug 2019), which is currently under construction and will (...) read more
Already for some years now, the Puy du Fou inventors have had in mind to establish their successful show and park concept on an international level (cf. EAP news of 12 Mar 2019) – for this purpose, the company Puy du Fou International was founded. (...) read more
The ambitious multi-billion mega leisure project EuropaCity, which was planned to be created in the Val d’Oise department, approx. 15 km northeast of Paris, has now finally failed after the French government, which was previously considered a (...) read more
The US-american animatronics manufacturer Animax Designs just announced personnel changes. To establish the company in the leisure and entertainment business even more, Animax now created “Technical Design Team“, which will overlook the technical (...) read more
Merlin Entertainments never sleeps. Following the announcment of the development LEGOLAND® Sichuan Resort at the end of September (cf. EAP news 27. Sep 2019), Merlin today announced the creation of LEGOLAND Shanghai Resort. The second LEGO® (...) read more
The Deutsche Sauna-Bund e.V. (German Sauna Association) recently awarded the sauna of Hamburg’s Holthusenbad with a 5-star certification for its quality, diversity and service. The 105-year-old pool facility provides guests with extensive sauna (...) read more
The British company intu, which owns and operates numerous shopping centers in the UK and Spain, has just received the green light for its newest major leisure and entertainment project. The new intu Costa del Sol leisure destination will be (...) read more
Today sees the start of the 26th edition of the established trade fair duo FSB (International Trade Show for Public Space, Sports and Leisure Facilities) and aquanale (Trade Fair for Sauna, Pool, Ambience) in Cologne, Germany. In a total of four (...) read more
