(eap) The Fichtelgebirge vacation region in Upper Franconia, northern Bavaria, is getting a new ropeway that will be able to transport around 2,000 people per hour up the 1,024-meter-high Ochsenkopf mountain. A total of 40 ten-seater gondolas will (...) read more
(eap) The Europabad Karlsruhe leisure and family pool in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, which is operated by the Karlsruher Bädergesellschaft, was closed for just under three weeks last month due to renovation works. A total of around two million (...) read more
(eap) This afternoon, a fire was reported at the Heide Park Resort in Soltau, which is operated by the Merlin Entertainments Group. According to the company, a localised fire broke out at the old administration building in the entrance area of the (...) read more
(eap) Cincinnati, Ohio-based creative studio JRA, part of RWS Global, welcomes Matt Dawson (photo) in the position of Vice President Global Business Development at the company. Previously, Dawson served as VP of Global Business Development at (...) read more
(eap) Yesterday saw the opening of the new outdoor area of The Green Planet™ Tropical House, located at City Walk in Dubai. Here, visitors can now discover a nature trail-inspired adventure park with several new offerings. These include a treehouse (...) read more
(eap) The Stuttgart-based interSPA Group, which operates the Wonnemar leisure pools in Germany, has announced that it will take over the operational management of the Salztal Paradies water world complex in Bad Sachsa, Germany. As of November 1, the (...) read more
(eap) Building on the success of “Jurassic World: The Exhibition” in Cologne, the dinosaur experience is now coming to the German capital. From December 1, visitors will have the opportunity to experience the exhibition around the prehistoric giants (...) read more
(eap) The German gaming studio SisyFox has recently introduced a new product called “Jumplings”, which is a multiplayer game that is controlled by the jumps of players. Each player stands on a jumping pillow and controls the character in the game on (...) read more
From now on, the pool staff at Osnabrück’s Nettebad will be assisted by an artificial intelligence (AI) in water supervision. The new technology will initially be used in the 33-meter hall of the Nettebad, which belongs to the Osnabrücker (...) read more
(eap) Around USD 125 million (approx. EUR 118 million) has been invested by Great Wolf Lodge Resorts shareholders Blackstone and Centerbridge Partners in the transformation of the Great Wolf Lodge facility in the Pocono Mountains (Pennsylvania). The (...) read more
(eap) The Austrian ropeway and cable car specialist Doppelmayr recently celebrated its 130th anniversary. Since its establishment in 1893 by Konrad Doppelmayr, the Wolfurt-based company has grown to become one of world market leaders in ropeway (...) read more
(eap) Today, UK-based leisure attractions operator group Merlin Entertainments and Immersive Gamebox, also a British company, announced to enter a partnership. Immersive Gamebox currently operates 27 of the so-called “Gamebox” facilities in the UK, (...) read more
(eap) The Oskarshausen amusement park near Dresden, Germany is going to receive a new attraction next year. The park recently got the approval for the construction of an all-weather toboggan run. The new Alpine Coaster is to be built in the middle (...) read more
(eap) The Brigerbad thermal spa, located in the town of the same name in the canton of Valais in Switzerland, recently opened some new attractions. Among them, the new children’s area “Kids Splash” with a water slide and a spray park from the German (...) read more
(eap) The Danish amusement park Djurs Sommerland near Nimtofte in Djursland has announced a new attraction for 2024: a new 60-meter high drop tower in the park’s “Mexicoland” theme area is to open in time for the start of the season on the 27th of (...) read more
(eap) Germany’s largest Center Parcs holiday park celebrates its 5th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the “Allgäuer Feschtle” special celebration was held on the fairground on October 1st, with guests enjoying a beer garden and an entertainment (...) read more
(eap) The Canadian technology company Connect&GO, known for its RFID access control and ticketing systems, recently became a partner of the French Looping Group, which operates a total of 18 leisure facilities (including amusement parks & zoos) in (...) read more
(eap) The Stuttgart-based interSPA Group, which operates the Wonnemar spas in Germany, has taken over the Belasso leisure facility from the Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) municipal and now plans to extensively modernize and expand the (...) read more
(eap) Already in summer, a first show staging was presented in a festive atmosphere on the world’s largest LED “screen” with a surface of some 580,000-square-foot (approx. 54,000- square-meters) – the spherical outer shell of the MSG Sphere building (...) read more
(eap) Yesterday, on October 3, 2023, a spectacular helicopter operation could be observed at the Danube Tower in Vienna. The reason for this: the individual parts of the “Danube Tower Slide” were delivered at a height of 165 meters. The slide at the (...) read more
