Mission Hills Group, a company in China’s fledgling hospitality, sports and leisure industry, is teaming up with Guangxi Investment Group to build China’s first Wet’n’Wild waterpark. Wet’n’Wild Haikou will be operated by the Australian Village (...) read more
Rethink Leisure & Entertainment, a California-based design agency specializing in themed entertainment, announced that Michael Pharr (photo) has joined Rethink as the company’s first-ever Chief Operating Officer. As of now, Pharr is in charge of (...) read more
This past September construction works for a new major Doppelmayr Seilbahnen project started: As of the second quarter in 2017 an eight-kilometer 3S Doppelmayr cableway will connect the islands of Phú Quốc and Hòn Thom located in South Vietnam, (...) read more
Today, this year’s IAAPA Attractions Expo, the world’s largest trade show for the amusement park and attractions industry, starts in Orlando, Florida. Until Friday, November 20, more than 1,000 exhibiting companies, including 140 first-time (...) read more
Enchanted Kingdom’s Chief Operating Officer, Cynthia Mamon, revealed the Philippine-based theme park’s plans to double its land area in order to expand its attractions portfolio. Thus, the park intents to increase the visitors’ length of stay and to (...) read more
As Great Coasters International announced, the US-based rollercoaster manufacturer has completed the construction and final testing of its newest wooden rollercoaster “Viper” at Wanda City Theme Park in Nanchang, China this month. The new (...) read more
This past mid-November Timbalaya Ltd headquartered in the USA published its new outdoor experience concept “Timbalaya”. The concept is based on a series of children’s books set in the imaginary land of Timbalaya and can be implemented by interested (...) read more
Indiana Beach Boardwalk Resort, which was purchased by Apex Parks Group in September 2015 (cf. EAP News from September 10, 2015), has recently begun a major renovation project on its “Giant Gondola Wheel”. In preparation for the park’s 90th (...) read more
SeaWorld Entertainment’s President and CEO Joel Manby has recently given notice of the creation of two new partnerships, with Panasonic Enterprises Solution Company and Evans Hotel Group. Panasonic will become an official technology partner of (...) read more
On the last weekend of October the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (B.I.E.), the institution responsible for allocating world exhibitions, announced the “B.I.E. Awards” winners at “Expo 2015” in the Italian city of Milan. In three (...) read more
In January 2014 the construction works for the new “AVATAR” themed area started at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida (cf. EAP, issue 2/2014). Recently, Disney unveiled further details with regard to the family-friendly attractions the new (...) read more
In summer last year, Ocean Park Hong Kong announced its plans for the opening of a year-round, all-weather water park (cf. EAP News from July 14, 2014). On November 5, 2015 the theme park held the official ground breaking ceremony for the “Water (...) read more
About one year ago, Montreal-based water play equipment manufacturer Vortex Aquatic Structures International started expanding its manufacturing plant. In a first step around 20,000 square feet (1,858 square meters) were added to the production (...) read more
Within the next few years the model building area of the city of Leer’s Miniaturland, which shows a miniature version of Germany’s East Friesland region at a scale of 1:87, will grow by 2,000 square meters, leading to a total area of 2,600 square (...) read more
In 2009 the German city of Dortmund was chosen as location for Germany’s first football museum (cf. EAP News from October 21, 2009). Following a construction period of about three years, the German Football Museum was officially opened by the (...) read more
Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products is teaming up with Al Ahli Holding Group (AAHG), a multi-diversified international conglomerate headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, to build a Fox-branded theme park and resort in Dubai. Scheduled to (...) read more
Since the beginning of this week Bernard Giampaolo has been the new General Director of Italy’s Mirabilandia amusement park, succeeding Giovanni Cavalli. During the last nine years Giampaolo served as General Manager at Marineland, a theme park (...) read more
Currently Ferrari World Abu Dhabi works on a massive extension of its attractions portfolio (cf. EAP News from July 16, 2014). Now the theme park has announced the opening date for its newest major attraction “Flying Aces”. The Intamin rollercoaster (...) read more
The board of directors of IAAPA (International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions) has elected Andreas Veilstrup Andersen as its second vice chairman for 2016. After his term of office he will change to the position of the first vice (...) read more
Actually we knew this before: German amusement parks are particularly family-friendly. This was recently proved by an independent customer survey carried out this fall by the analysis and consulting company ServiceValue in cooperation with WELT am (...) read more
