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Mary T. Barra, CEO and Chairman of the US automobile company General Motors (GM) headquartered in Detroit/Michigan, has recently been elected to The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors, effective immediately. In her new role, Barra extends (...) read more

For its The Boardwalk At Hersheypark water park, Pennsylvania’s Hersheypark recently announced to launch two new water attractions in 2018: “Breakers Edge” is the first of the two new ProSlide attractions – a hydro-magnetic family water coaster. (...) read more

Klafs, a leading German manufacturer of sauna cabins and wellness facilities, recently launched the new “SaltProX” device featuring the so-called “Microsalt” technology for dry salt inhalation at sauna and spa facilities, which had initially been (...) read more

To exchange views on current and future industry trends, a delegation from Ocean Park Hong Kong recently visited Europa-Park in Germany. Chairman Leo Kung, CEO Matthias Li and Celine Cheung (Executive Director, Design & Planning) met with (...) read more

In the course of comprehensive restructuring measures, Wanda Hotel Development – an arm of Dalian Wanda Group, listed at Hong Kong Stock Exchange – has announced the acquisition of Wanda Culture Travel Innovation Group (Wanda Travel) and of Wanda (...) read more

Visitors to Germany’s Serengeti-Park Hodenhagen leisure and animal park (close to Heide Park) can now try out the latest feature of the “Serengeti-Park app”, named “Serengeti Interactive” and turning visitors into animal keepers. At several sites in (...) read more

Today will see the movie theater premiere of the new family animation movie “Happy Family”, which is the first cinema film production from MackMedia. In cooperation with Ambient Entertainment, Michael Mack’s media company has created a 90 minute (...) read more

British Frontgrid company, founded by the two entrepreneurs David Wood (Chairman) and Matt Wells (CEO), will present their newly developed ParadropVRTM Virtual Reality (VR) experience, which has been created in cooperation with Simworx – a leading (...) read more

Starting this month, visitors to San Francisco’s Aquarium of the Bay can try out the facility’s first Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) experiences to encounter sea animals in a virtual environment. Sponsored by Big Bus Tours, the (...) read more

Landing Jeju Development – a wholly owned subsidiary of Landing International Development Limited based in Hong Kong – and the US content and media company Lionsgate recently announced their plans for the new Lionsgate Movie World theme park, which (...) read more

China’s capital city of Beijing and the million-strong metropolis of Shanghai will both see the opening of a new midway attraction by Merlin Entertainments in 2018. Following the first installation of Merlin’s newest Midway attraction “Little BIG (...) read more

Alongside Silver Dollar City, Kings Dominion, Cedar Point and California’s Great Amercia (cp. EAP news f. 17 August 2017, here and here), California-based Knotts Berry Farm has also announced a brand-new rollercoaster for the 2018 summer season. (...) read more

The so-called hybrid coaster, which combines a wooden structure with a steel track, shows to be a current trend in US amusement parks, following latest announcements for new attractions for the 2018 season: Located in Doswell/Virginia, Kings (...) read more

Branson/Missouri-based Silver Dollar City amusement park recently announced its plans to open a new rollercoaster – a world’s first – in spring 2018, following the launch of the “Outlaw Run” record-breaking wooden coaster (from Rocky Mountain (...) read more

Holovis, one of the leading suppliers of projection technology for the attractions industry, has recently announced a new strategic partnership with the Dutch company E2M Technologies, which is specialized in mechatronic product design and (...) read more

Since Virtual Reality (VR) technology has made its way into the leisure and entertainment industry and more and more leisure facilities have been opening up new VR attractions for visitors (cf. our VR special in EAP, 3/17), more and more (...) read more

The German city of Bottrop is the location of some supra-regional and popular leisure destinations such as Movie Park Germany or Schloss Beck family leisure park. To strengthen the city’s visibility in the leisure market in order to support smaller (...) read more

California’s SeaWorld San Diego recently opened its new “Ocean Explorer” theme area featuring five new family attractions, three aquariums and the new “DeepSEEVR: Orca 360” Virtual Reality (VR) experience, which is located in the park’s so-called (...) read more

Under its Sunparks and Pierre & Vacances brands, Groupe Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs plans to develop five new year-round destinations for short vacations in China, seeing the increasing demand for such facilities close to Chinese megacities. The (...) read more