US-based Great Wolf Resorts Inc.®, operator of indoor waterpark resorts, announced Rúben A. Rodríguez as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective September 22, 2015. Rodríguez, 52 years of age, has broad experience across several leading (...) read more
Some time ago, Germany’s waterpark Alpamare, located in Bavaria’s spa town Bad Tölz, announced it would have to permanently close its business due to failed negotiations of Jodquellen AG, owner and operator of Alpamare, with the municipality about (...) read more
Next spring, a 178 meter long slide will be attached to the ArcelorMittal Orbit located in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (cf. EAP News from September 12, 2012). The tower was designed by the British artist Anish Kapoor, who cooperates with (...) read more
Visitors and fans of Belgium’s Plopsaland De Panne can already look forward to next year – 2016 will see the opening of a brand-new wooden roller coaster. Supplied by Great Coasters International (GCI), the new attraction will feature a track length (...) read more
A new visitor record was recently set at France’s theme park Futoroscope, located in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou. With a total of 16,243 guests on Wednesday, August 12 the previous record, set at a weekend of May this year, was broken. In addition to (...) read more
The camping and caravan industry is currently booming in Australia. The number of people spending their holidays at camping facilities has been steadily growing over the last few years, with families as the most important target group. For operators (...) read more
In 2014, the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom theme park was opened in Guangzhou, China (cf. EAP, issue 04/2014). Recently, a new attraction has entered the Penguin Hotel which belongs to Ocean Kingdom Resort. Performed by 16 life-sized animatronic penguins (...) read more
On September 12, 1997, Berlin’s Labyrinth Kindermuseum, a children’s museum, was opened with the bubbles exhibition “Babbels”. This year, the museum located in the socio-cultural center Fabrik Osloer Straße celebrates its 18th birthday. On this (...) read more
One year ago, Germany’s Emotion Media Factory, known for its multimedia show installations, announced the creation of two shows for Romon U-Park, located in the south of Ningbo, China (cf. EAP, issue 5/2014). Meanwhile, the 20-minutes shows are (...) read more
Until August 23, visitors of PortAventura have the possibility to see Cirque du Soleil’s “Amaluna” show which Spain’s leisure resort hosts this summer (cf. EAP News from June 29, 2015). Up to now, more than 110,000 people attended the show, making (...) read more
According to an annual report tracking the attendance of theme parks released by Themed Entertainment Asscociation and AECOM, Lotte World has recorded an increase in attendance figures of 2.8 per cent from June last year to June this year. In total, (...) read more
In cooperation with Playland’s Castaway Cove’s owner Scott Simpson, the US-based ride manufacturer S&S Worldwide has developed a new roller coaster for New Jersey’s amusement park. The Triple Launch Coaster “Gale Force” will be targeted to families (...) read more
This past weekend, Edaville amusement park situated in Carver, Massachusetts saw the opening of the first Thomas Land theme park in the USA. Covering an area of 11.5 acres (around 47,000 square meters) within Edaville, the new attraction features (...) read more
This past weekend, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts’ Chairman Bob Chapek gave an overview of the newest attractions to join the Disney theme parks around the world. According to these plans, visitors of Florida’s and California’s theme parks will be (...) read more
The new “Promotion Module”, developed by Austria’s software company TAC | The Assistant Company, gives hotel, fitness and spa operators the opportunity to appropriately market their offers and enlarge their distribution channels. In this way, (...) read more
In October 2012, the Casino Pier and Breakwater Beach leisure complex situated in Seaside Heights, New Jersey was hit by Hurricane Sandy. Nine month after the catastrophe, the park was accessible to visitors again but is still in the midst of its (...) read more
Since June, InterSPA Group’s first Wonnemar resort hotel is under construction in Wismar, Germany. The operator of Wonnemar health and adventure swimming pool complexes announced the hotel will be built in close proximity to Wonnemar Wismar and (...) read more
Following the opening of Dollywood’s DreamMore Resort™ located in the US state of Tennessee in July (cf. EAP News from July 29, 2015), Dollywood Company recently announced the addition of a new attraction to its theme park. In March 2016, “Lightning (...) read more
In cooperation with the German-Belgian artist Carsten Höller Germany’s slide manufacturer Josef Wiegand GmbH & Co. KG created two identical slides. Until September both 39 meter long tube slides, which are part of Höller’s exhibition “Decision”, (...) read more
The German Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (VDFU) calls for a revision of the amendments recently made to the documentation duty with regard to minimum wages. The new legislation does not include seasonal workers which, according to (...) read more
