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Albert Ritter, son of a well-established showmen family from Berlin, was born “on the traditional Hanover fun fair” on 2 July 1953. The Essen-based showman is carrying on the travelling business of his family in the fifth-generation. He was elected (...) read more

Hamburg, Germany’s Miniatur Wunderland expands its current offer with the construction of the new theme world “Italy”. Together with Hamburg’s First Mayor, Olaf Scholz, the Chairman of the Board of the German Federal Railway (DB AG), Dr. Rüdiger (...) read more

Sabrina de Carvalho took up the position as Heide-Park Soltau GmbH’s CEO with effect from 1 June 2013. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Merlin Entertainments Group. In her new position Carvalho will manage the overall business of the (...) read more

While the unrests between the Turkish government and protesters in Istanbul still continue, the first theme park of Turkey has been opened by Prime Minister Erdogan in Eyüp by the end of May. The new, highly anticipated theme park is a joint venture (...) read more

As Merlin Entertainments has announced at the beginning of this week, Emma Wood will take up the newly created group-wide marketing role as the company’s first ever Group Marketing Director. Wood, who will join the company at the end of August, is (...) read more

Some days ago, Helsinki, Finland’s Linnanmäki amusement park has opened the new haunted ride “Hotelli Kyöpenlinvuori”. According to the storyline, the ride is a hotel operated and inhabited by witches. The new attraction replaces an old ghost train (...) read more

Florida, Jacksonville-based dark ride and animatronics design/manufacturing company Sally Corporation recently announced that they promoted Lauren Wood to their newly created position as Digital Marketing Manager. Lauren Wood, daughter of Sally’s (...) read more

This year’s summer meeting of the European Waterpark Association (EWA), held from 6 to 8 June 2013 in the cross-border region of Germany, Luxembourg and France, led the association’s members from classic Roman bath culture to state-of-the-art (...) read more

Being one of South West England’s largest tourist attractions and an UNESCO world heritage site, the Roman Baths in the historic city of Bath (Somerset) attract numerous visitors each year. Now the visitor attraction adds a new visitor management (...) read more

At the end of last week, the company Blueprint Entertainment and global operator group Merlin Entertainments signed a sale and purchase agreement for the management company of Ostend, Belgium’s visitor attraction “Earth Explorer”. The attraction, (...) read more

Right at the entrance in the waiting line for the “Lost Valley”, the new theme area at South Korea’s Samsung Everland in Yongin City, visitors are already introduced to the story behind this recently opened area. Specially designed vehicles then (...) read more

The “Paläon Forschungs- und Erlebniszentrum Schöninger Speere”, the ambitious research and discovery center which has recently been under construction in Schöningen, Germany (cp. EAP News from June 11th, 2012), is now set to open its doors to the (...) read more

In May, Abu Dhabi’s famous theme park Ferrari World Abu Dhabi announced that it is planning to extend its opening hours later on this year. Up until now the park has remained closed on Mondays, reducing visitation days to only six days a week. Now, (...) read more

Toronto, Canada’s design company Forrec recently announced a strategic partnership with the Chinese company Tongji Architectural Design Group Ltd. (TJAD). Originally founded in 1958 by the Tongji University in Shanghai, the TJAD design institute is (...) read more

The Xocomil Water Park in southwestern Guatemala recently opened a brand new water coaster in celebration of its 50th anniversary. The new Master Blaster attraction was supplied by WhiteWater West and transports passengers in their boats over a (...) read more

Florida, SeaWorld Orlando’s new theme area “Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin” is open now. The new area is the largest expansion in the park’s history (we reported in EAP issue 1/2013). The little hero penguin Puck takes visitors on a trip into his (...) read more

The new River Safari animal park in Singapore celebrated its soft opening last month. River Safari is the fourth facility operated by Wildlife Reserves Singapore, along with Jurong Bird Park, Night Safari and the Singapore Zoo. The new park occupies (...) read more

Following a construction period of a mere 18 months, the “Norwegian Breakaway”, the twelfth ship in the fleet of US-based Norwegian Cruise Line (cp. EAP 4/2012), was officially handed over by Papenburg, Germany’s shipbuilder Meyer Werft to NCL at (...) read more