After 40 years of service to the international leisure industry, Tim Timco (photo), President and CEO of S&S Worldwide, Inc. will soon retire. He will be succeeded by Jason Mons, currently COO of the US-based company, who will serve as President and (...) read more
With “NEOM”, the Saudi Arabian ruling family is planning a futuristic megacity in the middle of the desert that will cover an area of 26,500 square kilometers across three countries (Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt) and become the world’s first (...) read more
Founded in Canada and now headquartered in Santa Monica, California, media company Lionsgate has appointed International Management Group (IMG) as its new and exclusive global agency for consumer products. In a multi-year agreement, IMG will work (...) read more
As of 1 November 2022, Claudia Herkert-Derungs (photo) will take over as the new Head of Marketing and Education at Zurich Zoo. She succeeds Markus Rege, who is retiring but will continue to act as a fundraising consultant for the zoo on a project (...) read more
The UK-based entertainment provider The Experience Department (“ted” for short, since April this year a subsidiary of the US-based RWS Entertainment Group) welcomes Jake McCoy (photo) as new Director of Operations to its management team. McCoy, who (...) read more
More and more shopping centers and malls are turning to retailtainment to offer customers an entertaining shopping experience and retain their loyalty (read also our special feature on the topic of “revitalizing stationary retail” in EAP 2/2020). (...) read more
The Libori Festival, which has religious origins, is one of the largest and oldest popular festivals in Germany. The church and the city use it to celebrate the arrival of the bones of St. Liborius, the patron saint of (...) read more
For 50 years now, Schwaben Park, located between Heilbronn and Stuttgart in Southern Germany, has been providing leisure fun to young and old. As Managing Director Thomas Hudelmaier revealed to EAP already at the beginning of the year (see EAP (...) read more
Spain’s Tibidabo amusement park, located at an altitude of around 500 metres (on Barcelona's eponymous local mountain), will present a special novelty for thrill fans in the 2024 season: A Dop Tower that will allow a free-fall experience from a (...) read more
It won’t be long until skydiving enthusiasts can also enjoy a flight in an indoor skydiving tunnel in New York City. A new facility from iFly will come up in the city borough of Queens on Long Island, the island in the south east of US state New (...) read more
Located in the holiday resort of Belek, east of Antalya (Turkey), the Titanic Deluxe Golf Belek offers its guests on a total area of 170,000 square meters, in addition to 594 rooms, a 15,000-square-meter-large outdoor waterpark that has been (...) read more
Germany’s Oskarshausen family amusement park, based in Freital near Dresden, opened its new themed area “Oskar’s Lemonade Factory” yesterday. The new zone covers an area of around 1,000 square meters and offers, among other things, two new rides: (...) read more
The Warner Bros. Movie World theme park on Australia’s Gold Coast, which is part of the Village Roadshow Theme Parks (VRTP) operating group, just announced to open the world’s first “Wizard of Oz” themed area in two years. Attractions announced for (...) read more
Yesterday, representatives of the Bavarian member companies organized in the German Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (VDFU) met at Bayern-Park with Rita Hagl-Kehl MdB, member of the SPD parliamentary group in the tourism committee of (...) read more
While a large part of Europe is suffering under the extreme summer heat these days, fall is moving ever closer into view, at least for amusement and leisure industry professionals: In eight weeks (from Sept. 13 to 15), the industry will come (...) read more
Some days ago, British leisure facilities operator Merlin Entertainments and Coca-Cola Great Britain announced to extend their partnership by offering guests new exclusive prizes in the scope of the “Plastic for Prizes” marketing initiative launched (...) read more
Rich Hill, long-time employee at Sally Dark Rides, most recently as Creative Director, has now been promoted to Chief Creative Officer of the US company. The industrial design graduate has worked for the Jacksonville/Florida-based theme ride (...) read more
“Today we’re making history with the debut of our record 20th coaster, the most at any theme park in the world. We are extremely proud to be the first theme park to accomplish this unprecedented and amazing feat as we add yet another world-class (...) read more
The Driburg Therme in North Rhine-Westfalia – owned by the town of Bad Driburg – had often made the headlines even before the pandemic. And in February, the local media reported on the city’s plans to build a spa hotel ... In April of this year, it (...) read more
The Mandoria indoor theme park near Łódź, Poland, which opened only a year ago and is therefore still very young, has already added a new themed land this week: “Arcades”, which covers an area of 10,000 square meters and features a total of five new (...) read more
