Founder and owner of the Europa-Park in Rust near Freiburg, Roland Mack (58) has been received in the Légion d'honneur to the class of chevalier (knight).The decoration ceremony took place at the French embassy at Pariser Platz in Berlin. Ambassador (...) read more
The Siam Park in the south of the Canary Island of Tenerife is now (finally) set to open soon. In early May the huge facility run by Loro Parque owner Wolfgang Kiesling is to make its premiere. Europe’s largest waterpark complex will then span (...) read more
During a recent four-hour visit to the spa “Therme Erding”, Jörg Haider, Governor of Carinthia in Austria, informed himself in detail of the concept and proposition of Europe’s largest thermal spa and sauna facility. The unanimous opinion of the (...) read more
A new dinosaur park is set to open at the end of April 2008 on the Baltic Sea isle of Rügen. A total of 106 life-size primeval animal models will “populate” the park. The dinos were produced by the Bernd Wolter Design GmbH based in Rehburg-Loccum, (...) read more
On the peninsula of Tarnewitz, east of the Baltic Sea resort Boltenhagen, one of the largest holiday resorts in Germany is set to open at the end of April 2008 after five years of project development and a 20-month construction phase. The “Weiße (...) read more
“A decade of wild animals and wild places” was the motto of the celebrations for the ten-year anniversary of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park on 22 April 2008. The nature conservation efforts of Disney’s theme park were a focal point during the (...) read more
The former USSR’s answer to the American space shuttle programme was called “Buran”, which translates to “snowstorm” in English. After a long sea passage to Rotterdam from Bahrein, where the space shuttle stood in the desert for years, the former (...) read more
"Tower of Terror", probably one of the most exciting Disney attractions ever, awaits guests this season at Disneyland Paris. Up until now, the Disney parks in Orlando, California and Tokyo have also featured a "Tower of Terror". For the last (...) read more
Ever since the Tuscan spa resort "Toskana Therme Bad Sulza" (Thuringia) was opened as an EXPO project in 2000, the stream of enthusiastic visitors has not let up. The Tuscan spa is primarily associated with "liquid sound", the art of bathing in (...) read more
Contracts for the most expensive tourism investment in Pinzgau were signed in February. The facility consisting of a spa and hotel will cost a good 90 million euros and, according to ORF Salzburg, is to open in December 2010. Construction is set (...) read more
Since the grand opening of the Designer Outlet Centre (DOC) in Wolfsburg (see our print issue 2/08 for more details), a fight over the authorisation to build another outlet centre in Lower Saxony has ignited. Within six weeks of opening in (...) read more
The Paderborn-based spa operator Heribert Stork is investing more than 15 million euros in the construction of the "Gran Belveder Spa & Golf Resort". In such, the Scharbeutz spa on the Baltic Sea, which opened in 1993, will be enriched with a (...) read more
For the first time ever, Busch is expanding outside of the US and has announced some phenomenal expansion into Dubai (UAE). The Busch Entertainment Corporation (BEC), the division of the Anheuser-Busch enterprise geared to family entertainment, (...) read more
Architectural plans by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) for the science centre / aquarium / knowledge theatre in the HafenCity complex are sure to attract a great deal of attention and curiosity. Construction will (...) read more
In mid-2009 construction is set to begin on a holiday park at Lake Bostal in the Saarland, which has been in planning for over ten years now. 130 million euros are to be invested in the 90-hectare large site. The state of Saarland is expected to (...) read more
In 2004, the French Grévin Group bought Panorama Park from its founders, the Schulte-Wrede family. Grévin is now selling the park (around 60 hectares) to the entrepreneur Siegfried Hamm, who lives nearby. According to Rascal Hüppe, General Manager (...) read more
The current capacities at Wonnemar Ingolstadt have become too tight. Five to six hundred visitors daily and around 70,000 more guests in 2006 than in the previous year have called for an expansion of the facility. Three new saunas and a relaxation (...) read more
So now it’s “official”: The manufacturer of the ride that is planned for the new world of motorsports, the Erlebniswelt Nürburgring, is S&S Power, which asserted itself successfully in a global public call for tenders. “S&S Power is one of the (...) read more
At the sauna facility Therme1 in Bad Füssing, Europe’s first potato sauna opened on the 18th of January. With the new facility, an unusual sauna landscape has been created in a historical, lovingly kept four-sided courtyard in Rottal. This absolute (...) read more
Since losses were noted for three of the past four quarters, the American group that currently runs 21 parks has started to cut costs drastically. In doing so, expenditures for this year are to be cut by 60 million USD: The planned budget slash will (...) read more
