Today, Orlando/Florida-based entertainment company Falcon’s Beyond announced Simon Philips as their President (pictured here in the middle) – a newly-created position at the company. Philips previously acted as a Senior Advisor to Falcon’s board and (...) read more
Ten years ago, the Italian company Neveplast launched its “Skiddy” product, which is a go-kart track with a track that is slippery due to an artificial synthetic surface, so that the karts glide as if on real snow. Now the company has announced a (...) read more
The three-day DEAL 2023 trade show, organized by International Expo-Consults LLC (IEC) and focusing on the leisure industry in the Middle East and Africa region, starts today in the desert city of Dubai. From 14-16 March, interested parties can (...) read more
It’s not just polar bears, elephants and apes that are threatened. The extent of insect mortality is also becoming increasingly clear. As part of the project “ProInsect”, which was funded in the federal program “Biological Diversity” by Germany’s (...) read more
International cruise line Royal Caribbean International has received approval from the government of The Bahamas to develop the first Royal Beach Club. “The Royal Beach Club at Paradise Island”, in west Nassau on The Bahamas, will offer guests a (...) read more
The Dutch Toverland amusement park has a spectacular new park show called “Aqua Bellatores” in store for its visitors this season. Aqua Bellatores means “water fighters”, which gives an idea of the core of the show. Thus, water is at the center of (...) read more
Tomorrow, it’s the day: The new “Aquaman: Power Wave” water roller coaster opens at US theme park Six Flags Over Texas. The new attraction is the “Power Splash” model from German roller coaster manufacturer Mack Rides. On a total track length of 213 (...) read more
Recently, the former conference and exhibition center in Manchester’s leisure and retail complex TraffordCity was demolished, allowing the Therme Group to begin construction of Therme Manchester. The demolition was carried out by regeneration (...) read more
Internorga, the leading international trade fair for the out-of-home market, starts today in the halls of Hamburg Messe & Congress: during five days (through March, 14th), professionals in F&B such as operators of amusement parks and leisure (...) read more
Last year, the Dutch Efteling theme park welcomed 5.43 million visitors. A record result in its 70-year history! 81.5 percent of park guests came from the Netherlands, 12.4 percent from Belgium, 3.8 percent from Germany and 2.3 percent from other (...) read more
Universal Parks & Resorts, a unit of Comcast NBCUniversal, is becoming Universal Destinations & Experiences to better reflect the full breadth of innovative offerings Universal aims at bringing to theme park guests and consumers around the globe. (...) read more
March 24 marks the premiere of the new “Peanuts” edutainment show at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Called “All Systems Are Go”, the new show was produced by the Montreal-based production company Monlove. It will be shown in the facility’s (...) read more
Northern Germany’s Jaderpark has revealed the secret of a new themed area and large-scale attraction for 2024: On a site between the “Okavango River” flume ride (by Hafema, read the full article here EAP 5/2021), which opened two years ago, and the (...) read more
Merlin Entertainments has announced the development of a new Peppa Pig theme park. After the first park around the pink cartoon character opened in Florida in spring 2022, North America’s second destination of this kind is now under construction in (...) read more
The Catalan amusement park Tibidabo, located on the summit of the eponymous mountain in Barcelona and thus offering visitors a panoramic view of the metropolis in addition to numerous family-friendly and nostalgic attractions, started its season (...) read more
One of the first escape rooms in Germany opened in 2014 under the name ExitGames Stuttgart (which is by now represented there with two locations) – in the future they will operate as Team Escape Stuttgart. By April, both locations in the city, which (...) read more
Located around 60 kilometers south of Berlin guests can find the Tropical Islands resort, which offers them an exotic short vacation all year round. Tropical Islands announced today to expand the resort by a new hotel complex, which will dock onto (...) read more
Starting tomorrow, representatives of the international travel industry will meet in Berlin to learn and exchange ideas on the latest trends and developments in global tourism at the ITB (7-9 March 2023). It is the first time since the start of the (...) read more
The ELORIA Erlebnisfabrik, operated by ELORIA GmbH – a subsidiary of Berlin-based Paperdice Solutions GmbH, which is one of the largest escape room providers in the country with more than 100 escape room facilities – has expanded its escape room (...) read more
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London is celebrating its 11th anniversary this year like the birthday of a Hogwarts student with an invitation to the wizarding school. From May 2nd to September 4th, visitors can explore Harry Potter’s early years at (...) read more
