As Walt Disney Parks and Resorts recently announced, Samuel Lau (pictured) has taken over the position of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort’s (HKDL) new Managing Director, effective immediately. Lau succeeds Andrew Kam, who resigned for personal reasons (...) read more
Following a construction time of four weeks, the outdoor pool facility Moskaubad, located in the city of Osnabrück, will officially open its new “Dschungelpfad” (Engl.: “Jungle Path”) ropes course this coming weekend. The 75-meter long course, which (...) read more
After five days, this year’s tourism trade show ITB Berlin, which took place in the German capital, ended yesterday. The trade fair’s organizer Messe Berlin is satisfied with the results: Attended by some 120,000 professional visitors, the world’s (...) read more
Tomorrow, Legoland Discovery Centre Oberhausen will open its new “LEGO® Star Wars™ MINILAND” exhibition area. Visitors can look forward to a galactic experience as the area, which is based on the popular “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the (...) read more
Today Hamburg’s exhibition center opened its doors for the 90th edition of Internorga, Europe’s leading trade show for the hotel, restaurant, catering, baking and confectionery industry. Until Wednesday, March 16, about 1,300 exhibitors from 25 (...) read more
In 2008, the 18-hectare Raging Waves water park, located some 86 kilometers southwest of Chicago, Illinois, opened its doors. Visited by more than 300,000 guests annually, the family-owned park today offers, amongst other features, 20 water slides, (...) read more
Having welcomed 1,015,000 guests last year, Zoo Osnabrück is one of the most visited zoos in Germany. In recent years, the zoo opened its Asia-themed “Angkor Wat” area, which includes a temple occupied by apes as well as a tiger temple garden (cf. (...) read more
As Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), a division of the US-based media group Viacom Inc., and the international leisure park operator Parques Reunidos recently announced, the two companies will partner to bring “Nickelodeon” family (...) read more
As of April 1, David Cromwell will be leading the Virginia-based Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park as well as the Water Country USA water park, which is located in close proximity to Busch Gardens. The current Vice President of Aquatica San (...) read more
Following the renaming as Disney Springs and the opening of several restaurants last fall (cf. EAP News from September 29, 2015), some of the best-known shopping brands and further restaurants will soon be added to Walt Disney World Resort's (...) read more
Disney Cruise Line’s fleet continues to grow: As the shipping company, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, announced a few days ago, two new family cruise liners will set sail in 2021 and 2023. Like their predecessors “Disney Dream” (cf. EAP, (...) read more
It’s the first push of the Dalian Wanda Group in France: As recently announced, Wanda has signed an investment contract with the real estate company Immochan, a subsidiary of the French retail group Auchan, in Paris at the end of February. The (...) read more
Movie Park Germany’s popular “Halloween Horror Fest”, which takes place each year in October, is one of Europe’s biggest Halloween events. Due to the strong demand, the Bottrop-based amusement park will open a permanent horror attraction in the (...) read more
Visited by more than 1.6 million guests in 2015, Karlsruhe’s 12 swimming pool facilities, as in the recent years, registered high attendance figures. Thanks to last year’s good summer weather, the outdoor pools welcomed 200,000 more guests than in (...) read more
As the US-based Six Flags Entertainment Corporation recently announced, the theme park operator has entered a marketing partnership with the technology company Samsung, which appoints Samsung as Six Flags’ “Official Technology Partner”. In the (...) read more
Italy’s Gardaland Resort, which will open its new “Gardaland Adventure Hotel” on June 1 (cf. EAP News from September 11, 2015), has announced a further novelty for this season. The resort has concluded an agreement with DreamWorks Animation for (...) read more
On March 1, the world's largest travel website TripAdvisor announced this year's “Traveller's Choice Award” winners in the “family hotel” category. TripAdvisor bases the ranking on millions of experience reports and opinions of the travel community (...) read more
During the last few weeks, Germany's automobile and technology museum Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim updated its IMAX 3-D cinema with the modern IMAX 4K laser technology (cf. EAP News from December 8, 2015). The film theatre presents two new (...) read more
This past Sunday (February 28, 2016) Disneyland Anaheim’s marketing legend Jack Lindquist died at the age of 88. Lindquist, who was born on March 15, 1927 in Chicago, worked for 38 years in different positions at Disneyland. Only a few months after (...) read more
As the US-based Six Flags Entertainment Corporation recently announced, its board of directors has split the theme park company’s executive leadership roles. While Jim Reid-Anderson, Six Flag’s former Chairman, President and CEO, has been named the (...) read more
