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
Tomorrow will see the opening of a new splash fun area for kids named “Pirates’ World” at Germany’s Bayern-Park (cf. park report in EAP, 2/17). On an area of more than 500 square meters, the little guests can enjoy 14 different water play elements (...) read more
At Bavaria’s Schloss Thurn amusement park, guests can enjoy a special evening event this summer: The “Knight Tournament at Night” is a combination of a theater piece and a knight tournament, performed by a team of 35 showmen, a “dragon” and eight (...) read more
Back in 2012, the steel and glass steeple The Shard was opened as London’s highest building and visitor attraction (height: 310 meters, cp. EAP-News from September 22nd, 2012), now its belonging observation platform named “The View of The Shard” has (...) read more
As recently announced by Disney, Disney Cruise Line plans to launch a seventh ocean liner after two more ships, which will set sails in 2021 and 2023 (cp. EAP news from March 9th, 2016), had already been announced last year. Both cruise ships are (...) read more
British ride manufacturer Garmendale Engineering recently announced that Kelvin Ensor has been appointed as new General Manager of the company, having worked with Garmendale for many years as both supplier and client in the automotive and (...) read more
“Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire” is the name of a new hyper reality experience set to open this year at Disney Springs in Orlando, as announced today by Lucasfilm, ILMxLAB (the “immersive entertainment” arm of the media group, belonging to the (...) read more
This past March, Finland’s Särkänniemi Theme Park had announced to build a triple launch coaster as its largest investment into a new attraction until to date (cf. EAP, 2/17). Recently, the new coaster named “Hype” has been opened, attracting lots (...) read more
October 2017 will see the opening of “National Geographic Encounter: Ocean Odyssey” in Times Square in NYC, for which Orlando-based Falcon’s Creative Group will deliver the show design. On an area of some 5,574 square meters (60,000 square feet), (...) read more
Once a year in Viena, the Agency for Health and Wellness (G.: “Agentur für Gesundheit und Wellness”) hands out the “European Health & Spa Awards” for outstanding spa and health offerings. Applicants are rated in a two-stage procedure, first by (...) read more
