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The Europa-Park turns 45 – if that is not a cause for celebration? Germany’s largest theme park located in Rust (Baden) will turn its park ground into a huge birthday party. On Sunday, July 12th visitors will experience a blue and yello day at the (...) read more

This Saturday, after three years of construction time and a delayed opening date due to the corona pandemic, Gulliver’s Valley Theme Park will welcome guests for the first time (cf. EAP news of 9 May 2017). Located in Rotherham (South Yorkshire), (...) read more

In downtown Copenhagen, right around the corner of the city hall, a new recreational city park called “Vesterbro Passage“ is planned. The project includes the transformation of a multi-lane road to a 14,000 square metres-large city park. To provide (...) read more

In order of the ground development for its new and third theme park Epic Universe, which is scheduled to open in 2023, Universal Orlando Resort has received a million dollar financial help from the Orange County. To relocate a large wastewater (...) read more

The Therme Group, which was founded in Austria, recently announced the appointment of Adrian Ion as new Executive Vice President for Corporate Finances and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Ion will assume responsibility for financial oversight and (...) read more

This summer season, Center Parcs park De Eemhof wants to update its visitor experiences with diverse additions. The “AquaMundo“ indoor water world will feature the new “Duo Racer“, type Body2Racer supplied by German manufacturer Aquarena. On a slide (...) read more

Since May 29th, the indoor pools of Therme Wien are open again open to visitors – now, one month later, also the sauna area of the thermal bathing facility has been reopened. Again, Therme Wien developed extensive safety and hygiene measures for the (...) read more

Despite the fact, that Sweden’s theme Parks are not allowed to open this summer due to an outdated legislation, which separates parks into two sections – with and without mechanical amusement rides – developments at Liseberg are not on hold. The (...) read more

German manufacturer Wiegand.Waterrides supplied the world’s first stainless steel 8-lane mat racer, to the recently opened water park in Xiangyang, China, which was developed by the OTC Group. The new attraction starts on a height of 15 meters and (...) read more

The Nederweert-based ETF Group has taken over the assets and employees of SOIOS B.V., a Dutch company which develops, produces and assembles electronically or solar energy powered road trains for person and freight transport. The trains, which are (...) read more

Intu Properties, the real estate and investment company headquartered in London which operates a number of shopping malls in the UK and Spain, goes into administration in order to avert imminent insolvency. The KPMG accounting organization was lined (...) read more

Sweet treats are not only available at Movie Park Germany in the new Dunkin’ Donuts Store (read our article “Food Brands in the Park”, EAP 4/2020), but also in the revamped “Candy & Sweets” candy shop, which with its new American Diner style fits (...) read more

On one side of the building walls of CopenHill – a power plant in Denmark‘s capital Copenhagen, which is also used as an urban mountain sports facility – an 80-metres-high and 10-metres-wide multi-pitch climbing wall is currently under construction, (...) read more

According to the current corona protection measures by the German government, public events will still be prohibited throughout the country through 31 October 2020. Therefore, numerous traditional folk festivals have been cancelled. Some German (...) read more

The Walt Disney Company just announced a complete make-over of its “Splash Mountain“ log flume rides at Disneyland Park California and Magic Kingdom Park in Florida. Where visitors have been immersed into the world of “Song of the South“, a Disney (...) read more

Today, after around 24,500 working hours, Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg launches its new miniature funfair, which is located in the “Central Germany“ section. Just before the forced closure due to the corona pandemic, the main part of the 750,000 (...) read more

Visitors to Brevard Zoo, which is located in Melbourne, Florida, now have the opportunity to enjoy a new AR experience, dedicated to one of natures spectacular – the seasonal flooding of the South American rainforest and how the Pacu fish plays a (...) read more

Today the all-new Soaky Mountain Waterpark in Sevierville, Tennessee welcomes its first  bathing guests and is launching its array of adventure pools as well as fun and thrilling water slides. Dave Andrews, general manager of Soaky Mountain (...) read more

Today, Ireland’s Tayto Park announced approval on two new steel intertwining rollercoasters, which are scheduled to open in 2023. Construction works on the two Vekoma coasters – a Family Boomerang and an Inverted Coaster, which will be intertwined (...) read more