To exchange views on current and future industry trends, a delegation from Ocean Park Hong Kong recently visited Europa-Park in Germany. Chairman Leo Kung, CEO Matthias Li and Celine Cheung (Executive Director, Design & Planning) met with (...) read more
In the course of comprehensive restructuring measures, Wanda Hotel Development – an arm of Dalian Wanda Group, listed at Hong Kong Stock Exchange – has announced the acquisition of Wanda Culture Travel Innovation Group (Wanda Travel) and of Wanda (...) read more
Visitors to Germany’s Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen leisure and animal park (close to Heide Park) can now try out the latest feature of the “Serengeti-Park app”, named “Serengeti Interactive” and turning visitors into animal keepers. At several sites in (...) read more
Today will see the movie theater premiere of the new family animation movie “Happy Family”, which is the first cinema film production from MackMedia. In cooperation with Ambient Entertainment, Michael Mack’s media company has created a 90 minute (...) read more
British Frontgrid company, founded by the two entrepreneurs David Wood (Chairman) and Matt Wells (CEO), will present their newly developed ParadropVRTM Virtual Reality (VR) experience, which has been created in cooperation with Simworx – a leading (...) read more
Starting this month, visitors to San Francisco’s Aquarium of the Bay can try out the facility’s first Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) experiences to encounter sea animals in a virtual environment. Sponsored by Big Bus Tours, the (...) read more
Landing Jeju Development – a wholly owned subsidiary of Landing International Development Limited based in Hong Kong – and the US content and media company Lionsgate recently announced their plans for the new Lionsgate Movie World theme park, which (...) read more
China’s capital city of Beijing and the million-strong metropolis of Shanghai will both see the opening of a new midway attraction by Merlin Entertainments in 2018. Following the first installation of Merlin’s newest Midway attraction “Little BIG (...) read more
Alongside Silver Dollar City, Kings Dominion, Cedar Point and California’s Great Amercia (cp. EAP news f. 17 August 2017, here and here), California-based Knotts Berry Farm has also announced a brand-new rollercoaster for the 2018 summer season. (...) read more
The so-called hybrid coaster, which combines a wooden structure with a steel track, shows to be a current trend in US amusement parks, following latest announcements for new attractions for the 2018 season: Located in Doswell/Virginia, Kings (...) read more
Branson/Missouri-based Silver Dollar City amusement park recently announced its plans to open a new rollercoaster – a world’s first – in spring 2018, following the launch of the “Outlaw Run” record-breaking wooden coaster (from Rocky Mountain (...) read more
Holovis, one of the leading suppliers of projection technology for the attractions industry, has recently announced a new strategic partnership with the Dutch company E2M Technologies, which is specialized in mechatronic product design and (...) read more
Since Virtual Reality (VR) technology has made its way into the leisure and entertainment industry and more and more leisure facilities have been opening up new VR attractions for visitors (cf. our VR special in EAP, 3/17), more and more (...) read more
The German city of Bottrop is the location of some supra-regional and popular leisure destinations such as Movie Park Germany or Schloss Beck family leisure park. To strengthen the city’s visibility in the leisure market in order to support smaller (...) read more
California’s SeaWorld San Diego recently opened its new “Ocean Explorer” theme area featuring five new family attractions, three aquariums and the new “DeepSEEVR: Orca 360” Virtual Reality (VR) experience, which is located in the park’s so-called (...) read more
Under its Sunparks and Pierre & Vacances brands, Groupe Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs plans to develop five new year-round destinations for short vacations in China, seeing the increasing demand for such facilities close to Chinese megacities. The (...) read more
As recently announced by FoxNext Games (a FoxNext division), the Los Angeles-based Aftershock studio, which has been acquired by FoxNext in June 2017, is developing a new action-RPG (= role-playing game) in cooperation with Marvel Entertainment, as (...) read more
DXB Entertainments (DXBE) – a spin-off company of real estate developer Meraas – has presented its first half 2017 financial results (January 1st until June 30th, 2017). According to DXBE, its Dubai Parks and Resorts theme park complex, which was (...) read more
Germany’s Hannover Adventure Zoo today opens its new “Afi Mountain” theme area featuring a “Drill forest” and a walk-in aviary, which replaces the old wading bird enclosure and connects the existing “Gorilla Mountain” with the “Kibongo” chimpanzees’ (...) read more
After a construction period of around three years, Euro Disney S.C.A. and Pierre & Vacances-Center Parcs today open their new, ecological vacation destination Villages Nature® Paris (cp. EAP news from June 7th, 2017). This new tourism destination (...) read more
