As of this summer, the Belgian capital city will have an all-new family-friendly visitor attraction on offer as the new LEGO Discovery Centre, to be operated by Merlin Entertainments, will open its gates for the first time. Following the opening of (...) read more
On a ground space of around 1.6 hectares (four acres) at the heart of Twycross Zoo, which is located in Atherstone around a 45-minute drive west of Leicester, the new, multi-million pound visitor attraction “The Gruffalo Discovery Land“ is scheduled (...) read more
As part of the Las Vegas-based entertainment complex AREA 15, which is home to e.g. Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart (see EAP 3/21), the new “Liftoff” aerobar by French manufacturer Aerophile has opened, and is now the first attraction of this kind in the (...) read more
For the further development of The London Resort, for which first cooperation partners were announced in fall last year (cf. EAP News of 12 Oct 2021), a strategic partnership has now been formed with the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) organization & (...) read more
To further drive the company’s growth, California-based manufacturing and design company BRC, which just celebrated its 40th anniversary last year (cf. EAP News of 7 Oct 2021), now announced it is reorganizing and expanding its organizational (...) read more
Yesterday, Merlin Entertainments (Merlin) and Mondelēz announced that Merlin will take over the operations and brand licenses of Cadbury World in Birmingham “Cadbury World is a truly unique experience and since it first opened its doors in 1990, has (...) read more
Cedar Fair, the Sandusky, Ohio-based operator group, has announced that it has received an unsolicited, non-binding takeover offer from SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. Together with legal and financial advisors, the Cedar Fair board of directors will (...) read more
At Germany‘s Bostalsee, more precisely at the “Surfbasis“ on the Gonnersweiler lakeshore about 400 metres away from Center Parcs Bostalsee, a new visitor attraction is being developed with “Das Haus steht Kopf“ (Engl.: “The house is upside down“), (...) read more
Everything under one roof now at the Asia Hotel & Spa Leoben in Styria, Austria. Since 28 January 2022, the popular wellness and recreation spa, a modern lifestyle hotel and a new fusions restaurant have belonged together. The 28,000-square metre (...) read more
Under the motto of “Growing Green Cities”, the Floriade 2022 will kick off in the Dutch city of Almere on 14 April this year. “The Arboretum has been completed. This permanent green space forms the green cornerstone of the Expo and the Hortus (...) read more
Playparc, the play equipment manufacturer based in Bad Driburg (East Westphalia region/Germany) specialized not only in classic children’s play equipment but also in multi-generational concepts and exercise course installations, has recently (...) read more
SPREE Interactive, the Nuremberg-based developer of multi-player VR experiences, and Italian company Eurogames, who specializes in the production of battery-powered bumper cars, now announced their partnership to offer the new experience “VR Space (...) read more
The 34-hectare (85-acre) dinosaur park ROARR! Dinosaur Adventure, which is run by the Goymour family, is planning an extensive expansion of its area, which currently features not only replicas of prehistoric giants but also interactive visitor (...) read more
Red Raion, the Italian CGI studio specializing in films for media-based attractions, recently announced the production of a new film that is a modern reinterpretation of the well-known Jules Verne adventure novel from 1873. In “Around the World in (...) read more
From April 8, LEGOLAND® New York will start the first full season of its still young park history and visitors can look forward to a number of new attractions: The long-awaited media-based interactive darkride “LEGO Factory Adventure” will also (...) read more
“PIK 2”, a new mega city development project, is currently on its way in Indonesia, more precisely just a few minutes away from Jakarta’s international airport. A thriving modern city is to be built on an area of over 2,000 hectares (5,100 acres). (...) read more
Northern Germany’s HolstenTherme in Kaltenkirchen (Schleswig-Holstein), which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, has big plans. Under the project name “ParadiesInsel” (ParadiseIsland), the wellness and spa complex is planning an extensive (...) read more
After the concept of Topgolf has already been established in the leisure industry in the USA for many years, the brand is also growing internationally and has opened further locations in Great Britain, Australia, Mexico, Dubai and now also in (...) read more
The Chinese amusement park Sunac Land Chengdu (located in Sichuan Province, Southwest China) recently opened a new Double Launch Coaster from Intamin, dubbed “All Speeds“ by the park and featuring a “raging bull“ theming. As the name of the (...) read more
After the first artificial surf facility under the name The Wave by the company of the same name, which is already equipped with the “Wavegarden Cove” wave-generating technology of the Basque company Wavegarden (see EAP 2/2020), was opened in (...) read more
