Last year saw the opening of “Angry Birds Land” at Särkänniemi Adventure Park in Tampere, Finland (cp. EAP 4/2012). This year a further new expansion within the park is already underway: This summer the new theme area “Särkänniemi Doghill” will be (...) read more
Only a few weeks to go until Fun Spot America (formerly Fun Spot Action Park) in Orlando, Florida will open two new major attractions. One will be a virtually 23 meter high wooden coaster from GCI (Great Coasters International) called “White (...) read more
The Spanish leisure resort PortAventura announced the complete renovation and extension of its existing waterpark at the beginning of this year. The new “Costa Caribe Aquatic Park” will have been enlarged by an area of 14,000 square meters and will (...) read more
As announced last week, the market-listed company Royal Imtech N.V., a general contractor of AWW, had to postpone the publication of its 2012 financial statements and its Annual General Meeting of shareholders originally planned to be held in April (...) read more
As announced by the end of last week, KidZania is set to open in Sentosa Island, Singapore in early 2015. The indoor park will be the centerpiece of a new multi-million dollar redevelopment at Palawan Beach where it will join the existing water (...) read more
Only recently has the new interactive attraction “Do You Speak Beluga?” at Seoul’s Lotte World theme park been opened to guests. As we reported in our online news from Jan 8, 2013, it was the California-based design company The Goddard Group which (...) read more
Two US waterparks operated by Palace Entertainment will make use of Lo-Q’s virtual queue and online ticketing systems in 2013. Following last year’s successful launch of Lo-Q’s “Q-band” product for the queue line management in waterparks at Splish (...) read more
In less than two weeks the London Dungeon, after 38 years of operation, will close its doors at Tooley Street forever … but don’t worry, the new London Dungeon opens 1 March 2013 in the underground vaults of County Hall on the South Bank next to the (...) read more
Michael Hahn has been supporting Zierer in the distribution of their products in China since 2012. Hahn was born in Germany but has been living in Shanghai for several years now and he successfully represented other German brands there. Wolfgang (...) read more
Do good and talk about it – following this motto, the EurothermenResorts Group supports Karl Heinz Böhm’s campaign “Menschen für Menschen” by donating 10,000 Euros for the construction of a fountain for the new school “Oberösterreich-Schule” in (...) read more
Four of five hotels of Germany’s biggest amusement park, Europa-Park, received an award from the hotel evaluation platform HolidyCheck. The selection of award winners was based on more than 780,000 hotel evaluations from the year 2012 provided by (...) read more
DP Leisure (DPL), operator of the 360 Play family entertainment centre brand, has opened its third FEC in the UK last December. The new venue was planned and designed by DPL’s sister company DP Associates (DPA) and opened at the Meridian Leisure (...) read more
Founded in 1973, “Club van Elf”, the Dutch association of leading visitor attractions, has elected new board members during their annual meeting. Mascha van Till, General Director of Walibi Holland, is the new President of the association following (...) read more
Pete Barto is the new sales manager at US-based rollercoaster and park attraction supplier Premier Rides. Jim Seay, President of Premier Rides, said, “We are excited to have Pete on board. The combination of Pete’s sales expertise and extensive (...) read more
As Germany’s Hannover Adventure Zoo has announced at the end of last year, a new home will be created for the chimpanzees during the next months and through to the autumn of 2013. Firstly, the indoor enclosure will be renovated until February 2013 (...) read more
Right on time for the start of the next season, Germany’s Legoland Deutschland in Günzburg will open a new interactive indoor attraction on March 23, 2013. Along with the new Knight’s Castle hotel that will open in Legoland’s Holiday Village, it (...) read more
Seoul-based theme park Lotte World opens a new interactive theater show called “Do You Speak Beluga?” in January 2013. The new attraction results from a collaboration between Lotte World and Hollywood-based design firm The Goddard Group. Visitors (...) read more
After a construction period of only seven months, the Europabad Karlsruhe opened its new sauna village at the end of November. It’s the next novelty implemented at this swimming pool facility following the expansion of its attraction line-up through (...) read more
Soon the year is over … until then, the Stadtwerke Osnabrück, responsible for the operation of three swimming pool complexes in Osnabrück /Germany, hope to reach a new annual visitor record. At Nettebad, the one million mark could already be reached (...) read more
At the beginning of November, Phantasialand in Brühl, Germany presented its plans for a park expansion reduced from initial 30 to 19 hectares (cp. EAP news from Nov 9, 2012). Now the plans have been approved by the regional council. The final (...) read more
