After a construction period of eight months, Germany’s Europa-Park celebrates the reopening of its Scandinavian theme area today. While the renovated “Fjord Rafting” water attraction already started operation at the beginning of this year’s (...) read more
A new visitor aquarium with four large tanks was recently opened in Langenthal (Canton of Berne) as a supplementary attraction to an existing leisure and business park, which includes a hotel, an event gastronomy, a bowling center and an (...) read more
France’s Nigloland amusement park plans to open a new family coaster in spring 2020, named “Noisette Express!”. Construction works for the new attraction, which will be manufactured by Art Engineering and set up in the park’s “Merveilleux” theme (...) read more
Simworx, the British specialist for simulator attractions, has recently welcomed Mark Whittaker (photo) in its team, who joined as new sales manager for the FEC and LBE sectors. Previously, the experienced industry expert served as sales manager (...) read more
For the gardens of Austria´s Swarovski Kristallwelten, Spanish designer Jaime Hayon recently designed a nostalgic carousel decorated with 15 million crystals, which are illuminated in warm light tones on twelve roof- and 16 wall-panels. The 6.5 (...) read more
After a comprehensive make-over of the “Jurassic Park – The Ride” rafting attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood in the past months (cf. EAP News f. 14 May 18), visitors to the park can now enjoy the renovated water ride under its new name (...) read more
Last week, Europa-Park opened the new “Junior Club Studios” in its Dutch theme area, transforming the four-year-old online gaming and learning platform “Europa-Park Junior Club” with over 30.000 users into a real experience. The halls of the (...) read more
Recently, Ireland’s prime minister Leo Varadkar T.D. and Martin Dalby, CEO of British Center Parcs Ltd. have officially marked the completion of the new Center Parcs Longford Forest holiday resort, which is the first Center Parcs park in Ireland (...) read more
This past Saturday saw the opening of the new “The Steel Curtain” rollercoaster at US theme park Kennywood, located in Pennsylvania (cf. EAP News f. July 25th, 2018). This new flagship ride, manufactured by S&S Worldwide, features a 60 meter (197 (...) read more
Today, the family-run leisure and adventure park Potts Park in Minden/Germany celebrates its 50th anniversary with an official ceremony, looking back on the history of the park. Founded in 1969 as a traffic-themed park, the business, which is (...) read more
Netherland´s Efteling theme park recently opened a new temporary hands-on exhibition in its related museum, inviting visitors to learn more about the fairytales which can be found in the "fairytale forest" of the park. Currently, the fairytale (...) read more
The Pope´s guards recently made their annual excursion, this time to Germany’s Europa-Park. With 50 men one third of the Swiss Guard, the unit responsible for the Pope´s security, enjoyed the trip. All of them are Swiss citizens and Catholics, have (...) read more
As Gardaland CEO Aldo Maria Vigevani announced yesterday, the Italian Gardaland Resort plans to open Europe’s first LEGOLAND ® Water Park in 2020. It will also be the world’s first LEGO waterpark in an amusement park which is not completely under (...) read more
The Mote Park Outdoor Adventure is a leisure and recreational park located in Maidstone (county of Kent) in Southeast England, owned by the Maidstone Borough Council and operated by Serco Leisure Operating Ltd.. The destination welcomes over one (...) read more
Brunswick Bowling Products recently released the augmented reality bowling experience “Spark TM”, an immersive and interactive scoring experience. The Spark projection system is connected to the company´s sync-scoring-system “Sync® Invicta”, which (...) read more
The Hallenbad Delphin (“Dolphin Indoor Swimming Pool”) – a 40-year old municipal sports pool complex located in the German town of Lübbenau/Brandenburg – has been closed for extensive renovation works, including an energetic renovation of the (...) read more
On 30 June, KölnBäder GmbH Managing Director Gerhard Reinke has left the company. Reinke, who has thus worked for the multi-site bathing complex operator for 13 years, has always been committed to pushing ahead with a trendsetting concept for (...) read more
For an investment sum of just under 45 million EUR (51 million USD), a new visitor aquarium is set to open its doors in Branson (Missouri) in the summer of 2020, being part of the development plans from California-based Kuvera Partners (operator (...) read more
The Cedar Fair Entertainment Company announced yesterday that the US operating group acquired Sawmill Creek Resort located in Huron, Ohio, which is only minutes away from their amusement park Cedar Point. The resort spans a total of 235 acres and (...) read more
The Guangzhou Sunac Land cultural tourism complex (located in Guangzhou, near Hong Kong) has recently opened its coaster novelty "Dueling Dragons", a dueling triple LSM launch coaster supplied by Intamin. Riders sit in two trains (one featuring a (...) read more
