The German Europa Park in Rust inaugurates today its 14th themed area “Ireland – Children’s World”, which now has been completed after construction works began eight months ago. The park’s new “green island“ is located adjacent to the English-themed (...) read more
Alpsee Immenstadt Tourism opens today the Alpsee Skytrail high rope course in a natural area close to the German city of Immenstadt with its two parcours Sky Trail® and Sky Tykes®. The eight column Sky Trail® offers visitors the opportunity to try (...) read more
Electrosonic, one of the world’s leading specialists for audio and video systems, recently appointed Steve Leyland as Executive Chairman, who has been a non-executive director and advisor on the Electrosonic Board since July 2015. Leyland brings a (...) read more
The Spanish amusement park Terra Mítica recently opened the Grand Luxor Hotel as its first themed hotel (c.f. EAP news from September 14th, 2015). The four-star facility, which is operated by Grupo Santamaría, offers a total of 300 rooms, of which (...) read more
The Danish amusement park Djurs Sommerland recently announced its plans to build a new family suspended coaster, which is scheduled to open in May 2017. The rollercoaster will be manufactured by Intamin on an area of approx. 10,000 square meters as (...) read more
Biloxis’ Margaritaville Resort in Mississippi recently opened a Cloud CoasterTM developed by Extreme Engineering, which offers a tandem ride to visitors. The innovative combination of zipline and coaster is the world’s first cart-less coaster (...) read more
The Bulgarian-based company Walltopia, which is specialized in the development of artificial climbing walls, plans to build its first “Walltopia Adventure Hub” entertainment center in the Ukrainian capital city of Kiev. It will from part of the (...) read more
Yesterday, on July 5th, the German Gründerpreis Award 2016 (Eng. “German award for entrepreneurs”) has been conferred in Berlin to Dr.Ing.h.c. Roland Mack who was honored in the “lifetime achievement” category. The jury explained that the (...) read more
After the recent opening of its latest walk through attraction “The Walking Dead Breakout” (cf. EAP news from July 6th, 2016), Movie Park Germany – a theme park belonging to the Spanish operator group Parques Reunidos – already announced a new (...) read more
Movie Park Germany recently opened its new “The Walking Dead Breakout” walk through, which revolves around the successful “The Walking Dead®” TV series of the US cable television channel AMC (cf. EAP news from March 8th, 2016). The new walk through (...) read more
The German Ravensburger Spieleland family theme park located at Lake Constance opened its new vacation village on July 1st this year to offer visitors the possibility of overnight-stays transforming their park stay into short holidays (c.f. “Park (...) read more
In due time for today’s U.S. Independence Day LEGOLAND® California Resort opened last week the tallest LEGO® building of the country so far – the One World Trade Center as its miniature model. The replica of the well-known skyscraper is located in (...) read more
Triotech, a Canada-based company specialized in the field of interactive and multi-sensory attractions, recently appointed Charles Sirois to its Board of Directors. The former President and CEO of BCE Mobile and Teleglobe has many years of (...) read more
Emaar Properties PJSC, one of the leading real estate companies in the United Arab Emirates, recently opened its new “Downtown Slide” in Dubai. The seven meter high steel slide is located on Burj Plaza with a direct view on the landmark buildings (...) read more
MNC Land, one of the leading property developer in Indonesia, recently signed a framework agreement with the state-owned company China Metallurgical Corporation (MCC) Group for the design and build of Indonesia’s first integrated theme park resort (...) read more
As the Swedish Gröna Lund theme park announced yesterday, visitors can look forward to the park’s new Sky Jump attraction in 2017. The 95 meter tower with the name “Ikaros” and manufactured by Intamin Amusement Rides will offer a completely new (...) read more
Merlin Entertainments, one of the world’s leading visitor attraction operators, has recently opened its new Gardaland Adventure Hotel at the Gardaland theme park complex in Italy to extend its accommodation offer. The new hotel counts 100 rooms and (...) read more
The animal park Tierpark Hellabrunn located in the German city of Munich recently announced the plans for its new “Mühlendorf” area, which will be built in the already existing children’s zoo area to enable guests to experience the local fauna. The (...) read more
Today opens the tunnel slide simply named “The Slide” at London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, which leads in twelve circles around the 115 meter observation tower ArcelorMittal Orbit (cf. EAP news from August 31st, 2016). According to the park, (...) read more
As Universal Orlando Resort already announced last year, its third venue will be the all-new “Volcano Bay” waterpark already under construction and adjacent to Universal’s Cabana Bay Beach Resort (cf. EAP news from June 4th, 2015). Last week (...) read more
