The manufacturing company RiMO Supply – a company of the RiMO Germany Group – is building for the very first time a fully-equipped Go-Kart track for a cruise liner – the “Norwegian Joy” of the US shipping company Norwegian Cruise Line, which is (...) read more
Regiondo, the leisure-ticketing provider based in the German city of Munich, announced on May 18th, 2016 the successful conclusion of a round of investment, in which the company Jochen Schweizer GmbH has been gained as a new investor. Jochen (...) read more
Madame Tussauds New York is currently developing the exclusive virtual reality experience “Ghostbusters: Dimension” in its already existing area “Ghostbusters Experience” in cooperation with Sony Pictures, Ghost Corps and THE VOID, which is (...) read more
KCC Entertainment Design – one of the world’s leading companies in entertainment design with headquarters in Belgium – was commissioned with the design of a unique indoor theme park of 34,000 square metres for the Dalian Wanda Group in Nanjing. The (...) read more
On Ma y 3rd, 2016, Six Flags Entertainment – one of the world’s largest regional theme park companies – released initial plans for Six Flags Dubai, which is scheduled to open at the end of 2019 as the first dedicated thrill park of Dubai Parks & (...) read more
Herbert Doll, founder and General Manager of monte mare – one of Germany’s largest operator of bathing complexes, sauna and wellness facilities – has been appointed senator at the yearly spring convention of the German Senat der Wirtschaft. The (...) read more
The acquisition of the Looping Group by the investment company Ergon (cf. EAP-news from March 30th, 2016) – a subsidiary of the Belgian concern Albert Frère – opened some new perspectives for the Aquaparc in Switzerland’s town of Bouveret. The park (...) read more
The visitor’s center Hershey’s Chocolate World Attraction in Pennsylvania invites visitors to join the new opening celebration of the dark ride Hershey’s Chocolate Tour, which has been reformed for the first time since its opening ten years ago. (...) read more
Frank Daemen, General Manager at Center Parcs Germany and Board Member at Center Parcs Europe, and Hans-Jörg Henle, mayor of Leutkirch in the German region Allgäu, informed yesterday together with a team of experts the residents of Leutkirch and its (...) read more
The Canadian water park attractions supplier ProSlide Technology recently announced Geert van Heugten as new Business Development Manager at its Dutch office in Amsterdam. With this decision ProSlide is persueing its European expansion course to (...) read more
Merlin Entertainments recently opened its new LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Michigan in Detroit on March 24th, 2016, as the eighth one of its kind in North America and the 14th LEGOLAND Discovery Center worldwide. This is also the 100th Midway (...) read more
The Canadian amusement park Canada’s Wonderland located close to Toronto inaugurated its new attraction “Skyhawk” starting into the current season on 1st May 2016, which offers visitors to slip into a pilot’s skin taking control of their own (...) read more
According to an official announcement of the Spanish investment fund ALBA dated 28th April 2016, the company that forms part of the March Group has acquired a block of shares from the large amusement park operator Parques Reunidos of a total value (...) read more
Th e Fårup Sommerland theme park located in the Denish Blokhus has opened on 4th May 2016 its new four star family hotel Fårup on time (cf. EAP, issue 4/2015). Located directly in the park with a view on “Falken” (Eng. “falcon”) and “Orkanen” (Eng. (...) read more
The Europa-Park in Rust recently announced that Michael (right) and Thomas Mack (2nd from left) become Executive Directors of Germany’s largest theme park. As members of the 8th generation of the entrepreneur family Mack, this step has been made to (...) read more
On 27th April 2016 Ubisoft®, one of the leading developers and publishers of computer games, announced to open the world’s first “Rabbids” family entertainment centre on Montreal’s West Island in August this year. The company aims to persue the (...) read more
For the first time ever, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter invites Harry Potter fans to discover the Dursleys’ living room in the week from 27th May until 6th June this year. The original set will be presented for the (...) read more
Since 9 April, the rock crystal-like building KinéMAX in the French theme park Futuroscope has been treating park visitors to a new XXL cinema experience. Recently, the existing pavilion was updated with a brand-new IMAX 4K laser projection system, (...) read more
On 28th April 2016 the Comcast Corporation division NBCUniversal announced the acquisition of DreamWorks Animation, which is scheduled to be closed by the end of this year. DreamWorks Animation will become part of the Universal Filmed Entertainment (...) read more
According to latest press reports the first KidzMondo edutainment park is set to open in Abu Dhabi’s The Mall in the first quarter of 2017. In the park, which is designed as a miniature city, children aged 2-14 years can experience 120 different (...) read more
