“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
With its subsidiary Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd, the UK-based Merlin Entertainments Group has extended its existing partnership with accesso Technology Group – the provider of ticketing and e-commerce solutions for attractions and leisure (...) read more
As was announced today, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong-listed Genting, Malaysian billionaire Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, resigned from his offices with immediate effect last Friday (21 January). The resignation of the group’s Deputy (...) read more
The Dutch Efteling theme park is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and is looking to the future with confidence despite the current pandemic-related closure of cultural and leisure facilities in the Netherlands. The plans are comprehensive: (...) read more
Burbank, California-based Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) – serving the creators, developers, designers and producers from the global themed entertainment industry – announced the members of its new Executive Committee for 2021/2022. The new (...) read more
True to its motto “standstill is regression“, Germany‘s Traumland auf der Bärenhöhle leisure park, located about an hour‘s drive south of Stuttgart, is constantly striving to further develop its existing visitor offerings. Founded in 1974 and now (...) read more
Today, the Dubai Parks & Resorts theme park and entertainment complex celebrates the opening of several new attractions: Visitors to MOTIONGATETM can now experience the two new coasters “John Wick: Open Contract“ (an installation of the “4D Free (...) read more
After more than five years, Janne Nilsson (l.) will step down as CEO at Skara Sommarland (part of Parks and Resorts Scandinavia) effective next summer. The management of the park will in future be taken over by Christine Karmfalk (r.), the current (...) read more
For the third time in a row, Rostock Zoo has been named Europe’s most successful zoo in the category of over 500,000 to one million visitors annually by British zoo expert Anthony D. Sheridan with a “Best European Zoo Award”. Rostock Zoo also ranked (...) read more
At the Six Flags Fiesta Texas high-thrill amusement park (located in San Antonio, Texas), visitors can now experience the venue’s “SkyScreamer“ StarFlyer attraction (from Funtime) in the prone position in addition to the classic seating position to (...) read more
The “Norwegian Prima“ ocean liner currently under construction at the Italian Fincantieri shipyard in Marghera – the first of six ships in this new series (class?) of the American cruise line company Norwegian Cruise Line/NCL – which is scheduled to (...) read more
The future visitor offering of Pradera Islands, a new theme park under development on the Philippines (in the Pradera Verde tourism area) whose groundbreaking ceremony took place in late 2019, will include versatile immersive and family-friendly (...) read more
Dutch software developer Convious recently added a new Managing Director for UK and Ireland to its team – with immediate effect Andy Povey (pictured) supports the London-based team around Business Director Adam Thompson (cf. EAP news of 8 Nov 2021) (...) read more
With Fabrique des Lumières, the French company Culturespaces Digital® is realizing a new location of its fascinating “Atelier des Lumières“ digital art museum concept (cf. EAP 3/2020), this time in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam‘s culture park of (...) read more
The Montreal, Canada-based multimedia production firm Moment Factory and the technology platform disguise (headquartered in London with offices in the US, Dubai and Asia) have recently announced their collaboration to use their combined expertise in (...) read more
After Universal recently announced several changes at the top management level for its international park locations (cf. EAP News of 2 Dec 2021), there is now another change at Universal Studios Hollywood: Scott Strobl (photo), who served as Senior (...) read more
