British operator group Merlin Entertainments is continuing its successful partnership with the LEGO® Group to bring three next generation LEGO® Discovery Centers to three locations in the U.S. next year. Under the new name (previously, these indoor (...) read more
Next to Karls Erlebnis-Dorf in Elstal near Berlin, a “Bibi & Tina” theme park will be built by 2024, developed in cooperation between Karls Erdbeerhof and Germany’s Kiddinx publishing house on an area of 60,000 square meters. Here, visitors will be (...) read more
Dollywood Park, located in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, announced on Friday a new great addition for next spring. Dolly Parton herself presented the latest plans for Dollywood Parks & Resorts, which, as well as Dollywood’s HeartSong Lodge & Resort (...) read more
The Global Village, located on Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Road in Dubai, which is a multicultural leisure destination combining retail, restaurants, attractions and entertainment along a promenade, has announced 27 pavilions and a new concept for its (...) read more
Opened in December 1981, the “Dreamworld Express” at the Dreamworld theme park on Australia’s Gold Coast has carried millions of guests since its inauguration. Recently, it was time for an upgrade of the nostalgic train attraction. While the park (...) read more
OCT Group-owned and -operated Fabland Valley Resort in Xiangyang (Hubei Province), China, celebrated the opening of its new “Hive Break” walkthrough attraction (which was delayed due to the pandemic), located at the “Alien Port” in the park and (...) read more
Cenntro Electric Group Limited – a leading EV technology company with advanced, market-validated electric commercial vehicles, which has taken over a majority interest in Tropos Motors Europe earlier this year – announced that is had signed a (...) read more
The Six Flags Entertainment Corporation has announced the appointment of Chieh Huang as an independent director to its Board of Directors, effective August 1, 2022. At the same time, Denise M. Clark has resigned from the Board for personal reasons. (...) read more
After 25 years, Wunderland Kalkar now has a new owner. On 1 August 2022, Hennie van der Most (Most Beheer), who founded the amusement park on the Lower Rhine not far from the Dutch border a quarter of a century ago, and the Dutch DeFabrique Holding (...) read more
Since the end of July, there has been a new highlight for families with children at Saxony’s Mildenstein (Leisnig) and Kriebstein (municipality of Kriebstein) castles. In search of the “treasure of the one-eyed man”, guests at Mildenstein Castle can (...) read more
From 23 September to 6 November 2022, visitors to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter can once again explore the dark side of the wizarding world as the “Death Eaters” make their way back to Hogwarts. For this period, (...) read more
“I am extremely grateful for this safe and peaceful Libori Festival,” said Paderborn’s Mayor Michael Dreier. Around 1.5 million people had visited this year’s festival, taking place over nine days in the cathedral city, and experienced the unique (...) read more
The accesso® Technology Group has teamed up with global technology company Planet, operating in the hospitality and retail sectors in particular, in a strategic partnership to combine payment services, technology and software for on-site-payments in (...) read more
KristallTurm, the Lenggries/Bavaria-based company which was founded in 2010 by Heinz Tretter (master carpenter & technical business economist) and has since installed numerous KristallTurm® high ropes courses around the world (read also our story (...) read more
Last week, the construction of the new surf pool facility SURFTOWN® MUC started in Hallbergmoos, about 25 kilometers north of Munich, with the official ground-breaking ceremony. Since its announcement, the project has been continuously pushed (...) read more
The Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim have recently launched a hands-on exhibition entitled “Invisible Worlds”, which uses interactive experiments to make things that are normally invisible to the human eye visible and tangible. The experiments (...) read more
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
