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The secret about the French park’s new attraction for next year is out: Walibi Rhône-Alpes will open a brand-new wooden coaster next spring. While the attraction will be supplied by US manufacturer The Gravity Group, no further technical information (...) read more

Amy Steele will from now on support the team of Holovis, UK-based specialist for audio and video systems. In her function as VP of Development, Steel will lead the in-house production team which includes more than 30 film makers, game producers, (...) read more

In January this year, Germany’s Tropical Islands resort located in Krausnick, close to Berlin, announced its plans for the development of an outdoor area (cf. EAP News from January 8, 2015). Following the enlargement of the “Mobile Homes Park” at (...) read more

This year’s Euro Attractions Show (EAS), held from 6 to 8 October at the Svenska Massan in Gothenburg, Sweden comes with an expanded five-day educational program including comprehensive learning opportunities. The general education sessions, which (...) read more

Following the announcement of a ”Hunger Games” themed area at motiongate™ Dubai in April earlier this year (cf. EAP News from April 7, 2015), the Hollywood-inspired theme park and the US ride manufacturer S&S Worldwide recently announced their plans (...) read more

Last week, Sweden’s Skånes Djurpark announced its plans for the opening of the first international „Shaun the Sheep“ family attraction in summer 2016. Children and their parents will get the chance to experience the world of Shaun that so far could (...) read more

Announced in 2014 (cf. EAP-News from October 4, 2014), Kalahari Resorts & Conventions recently opened its third African-themed resort in the United States. Following two indoor waterparks in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin and Sandusky, Ohio the Nelson (...) read more

On the occasion of Enchanted Kingdom’s 20th anniversary this year, the Philippine theme park’s Chairman and President Mario O. Mamon recently announced the arrival of two new attractions. The park’s first project is to replace its 60 seat “OMNI (...) read more

In April this year, Cirque du Soleil announced the sale of the majority of its shares for the first time. Now the Canadian producer of live artistic entertainment finalized the deal by selling a majority stake to TPG, a global private investment (...) read more

As one of the first German zoos Gelsenkirchen’s ZOOM Erlebniswelt recently introduced free WLAN for its visitors, covering the whole area. The realization of the “ZOOM WLAN” project started in January in cooperation with HUAWEI, IT and (...) read more

Following the announcement that British architect Terry Farrells has been appointed to design the masterplan for the London Paramount Resort planned in the Noth Kent region (cf. EAP-News from May 22, 2015), the operator recently published the (...) read more

Today will see the opening of “Jedi Training Academy”, the newest attraction at Disneyland Paris. For the first time in Europe, Star Wars fans aged seven to twelve can now participate in an interactive show to immerse in the world of Star Wars. (...) read more

Starting in 2016, the veteran rockers of The Rolling Stones will delight their fans with their first major gallery exhibit “Exhibitionism” paying tribute to 50 years of the band’s history. Tickets for the exhibition, which will debut at London’s (...) read more

Following the anniversary of Center Parcs Hochsauerland last year (cf. EAP-News from July 1, 2014), another German Center Parcs facility will turn 20 this weekend. On this occasion Center Parcs Bispinger Heide invites visitors to a tour through the (...) read more

The OVAVERA Hallenbad, Spa & Sportzentrum, opened in St. Moritz in Switzerland one year ago (we reported on this in EAP, issue 3/2013), can look back on a quite successful first operational year. With a total of 172,000 visitors, the swimming pool, (...) read more

Since July 1, visitors of Germany’s Hansa-Park have the possibility to dare a ride on the new rollercoaster “The Oath of Kärnan”. The planning of the Gerstlauer attraction started in 2010, the actual construction time took one and a half years. Its (...) read more

To attract more visitors from Germany Burgers’ Zoo located in Arnhem, the Netherlands, has started a cross-border marketing strategy. For this purpose a bus of Germany’s public transport company NIAG was given an underwater design which makes it a (...) read more

Efteling’s new dive coaster “Baron 1898” was officially opened on July 1st, 2015. The 18-million Euro coaster supplied by B&M is the park’s sixth rollercoaster – construction took only ten months “We’ve worked with so many people to create this new (...) read more