(eap) The US amusement park Cedar Point has announced the opening of a “Tilt” coaster from Vekoma for 2025. The roller coaster, which receives the name of “Siren’s Curse”, will include the signature “Tilt” element, 13 air-time moments, two (...) read more
(eap) The long-established company Meyer Werft in Papenburg has been an integral part of the German shipbuilding industry for over 225 years. Due to extraordinarily challenging market conditions (Covid-19, Ukraine War, raw material price (...) read more
(eap) The two giant pandas from Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, have recently been relocated to their home country China, where they will spend the rest of their lives in a station specialized in geriatric pandas in accordance with Chinese (...) read more
(eap) Florida’s animal and theme park Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has unveiled a new family-friendly themed area called “Wild Oasis”, which is due to open in spring next year. In the jungle area of the park operated by United Parks & Resorts, young (...) read more
(eap) Zero Latency VR, an Australian developer and provider of free-roam VR arenas, has reached a milestone in the company’s history: there are now 100 Zero Latency VR arenas worldwide (in 26 countries), in which a total of more than four million (...) read more
(eap) The Danish creative studio AdventureLAB and the Norwegian animation studio Qvisten have entered into a strategic partnership to combine their expertise in creative strategy, concept development and storytelling to jointly create new themed (...) read more
(eap) Otium Leisure, a French operator group of location-based entertainment attractions such as Speedpark, Kids Empire, Games Factory and Kojump, has presented its “Strike” strategy, with which it aims to – according to the company – become the (...) read more
(eap) Germany’s Fackelmann Therme in Hersbruck in the Nuremberg region is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a series of events, which kicked off on August 31 with the “Pool Party Mallorcastyle”. In mid-November (Nov 16th) (...) read more
(eap) Schwaben Park in southern Germany, which is aimed at families with young children, is now using a modern visitor counting technology to monitor and analyse visitor flows in real time in order to optimize park operations. The (...) read more
(eap) After four successful days, GaLaBau 2024 ended last Saturday. Over 66,000 trade visitors (in 2022 there were around 62,000 visitors) from Germany and abroad came to the Exhibition Center Nuremberg from 11 to 14 September for the 25th edition (...) read more
(eap) The Sanrio Puroland amusement park in Tokyo Prefecture comprises various attractions based around Sanrio characters such as “Hello Kitty”, “Keroppi”, “Chococat”, “My Melody” and “Cinnamoroll”. The new experience “Cinnamoroll’s Little Big (...) read more
(eap) At Messe Wien (Hall C) – near the Vienna Prater – karting & gaming fans find BattleKart: Beyond Reality, where they can duel themselves as drivers in six different interactive mini-games in e-karts from RiMO. Due to the success of the race (...) read more
(eap) A new “sugar-sweet” visitor attraction is set to open in Dubai this month: The Museum of Candy, where visitors can discover a total of 15 themed rooms centered around cotton candy, gummy bears, lollipops, ice cream and other popular sweet (...) read more
(eap) Germany’s Ravensburger Spieleland on Lake Constance will surprise its guests with a “world’s first” attraction novelty in summer 2025: As the family park has just announced, an interactive ride based on the popular detective board game (...) read more
(eap) The Dutch five-star vacation park De Zeeuwse Kust in Renesse on the North Sea coast is expanding its water park with a wild river from Dutch company iPlay Water Attractions. The current channel will begin in the central building, where the (...) read more
(eap) The Green Planet™ tropical house at City Walk in Dubai is now offering a new interactive adventure for the whole family: “Jungle Quest” challenges especially the younger visitors with various activities that they can take part in during their (...) read more
(eap) Germany’s Spreewelten Bad Lübbenau (located around 80 km south-east of Berlin) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, an anniversary week with special events and activities will take place from September 16 to 22 (...) read more
(eap) For 22 years, the European Waterpark Association (EWA) has been presenting the “EWA Awards” for particularly innovative offerings and marketing concepts to European waterparks, leisure pools and spas. This year, the two prizes – the “EWA (...) read more
(eap) At the end of October, Universal’s US theme parks Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Orlando Resort will build excitement for the new movie “Wicked”, a film adaptation of the beloved musical “The Wizard of Oz”, which starts in U.S. (...) read more
(eap) A new water park manager simulation game entitled “Aquapark Tycoon”, created by German video games creator Boxelware, will be launched next year. On Windows, Linux, MacOS and consoles (TBD), water park fans will be able to build up their own (...) read more
