Today the 2014 Winter Olympic Games will be opened in Sochi/Russia. Next to the sports arenas and facilities Sochi Park, a theme park featuring five theme areas home to castles, dragons and other fantasy and fairy tale creatures as well as rides and (...) read more
Good prospects: With just nine months to go until the 2014 interbad – international trade show for swimming pools, sauna and spas – a total of 230 exhibitors have already registered for the event. Both exhibitor as well as visitor numbers are (...) read more
Finally, some details about the new theme area, which is going to be opened this summer at Universal Orlando Resort, have been revealed officially. “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley” is the name of the new theme area located within (...) read more
Plech, Germany’s Fränkisches Wunderland amusement park will see a complete overhaul during the current year in order to be able to keep up with competitors and to increase its visitor numbers in the long term. Therefore, the park will be closed (...) read more
As recently announced, the brand-new Madame Tussauds Singapore attraction is going to be opened at Singapore’s Sentosa Island this year. In the context of their new partnership, Sentosa Development Corporation, manager of the island resort, and (...) read more
“To plummet down the equivalent of a drop from a 17 story building” – is the description of the experience riders will make on the reportedly tallest, fastest and steepest waterslide in the world, which is coming to Kansas this summer. The new (...) read more
Only one month after the opening of Asia’s first Legoland Water Park (cp. EAP news from 8 Nov 2013), the first Legoland Hotel of Asia was officially opened at the end of November last year. With the theme park, the water park and the hotel in one (...) read more
According to the theme park’s information, Fons Jurgens (44, pictured) will be appointed as Efteling’s new Chairman and CEO during the General Shareholders’ Meeting on 17 April 2014. He succeeds Bart de Boer, who surprisingly left the Netherland’s (...) read more
In December of last year saw the launch of a new children’s attraction at Plettenberg, Germany’s AquaMagis bathing and swimming pool complex. After ten years of operation, the former pirates’ ship was replaced by a new, state-of-the-art one. The (...) read more
“The Little Prince” written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry is one of the most beautiful books of the world. This summer, a new theme park, the “Parc du Petit Prince”, which is dedicated to the story of the little blond boy, is to be opened in Alsace, (...) read more
During last year’s IAAPA Attractions Expo held in Orlando, three European theme park shows received a Brass Ring Award – two shows of Europa-Park in Rust, Germany and one new show of The Netherland’s Dolfinarium Harderwijk. The winners from Germany (...) read more
Also 2013 saw Osnabrück’s three swimming pool and bathing complexes Nettebad, Moskaubad and Schinkelbad reach a new visitor record of around 1.25 million guests, around 30,000 more than in the year before. This development is remarkable given the (...) read more
The Andalusian theme park Isla Mágica in Seville, which has been part of the Looping Group since April 2013, will be expanded by an aquatic zone this year. Five million Euros will be invested into this expansion by its operators. Dubbed “Agua (...) read more
After the takeover of Gondorf, Germany’s Eifelpark by Alexander Goetzke and Nadine Löwenthal (we reported on this in EAP news from 7 Nov 2013) last year, renovation and remodeling works are being carried out now throughout the park. The park’s new (...) read more
John Wood (Sally Corporation), often referred to as dark ride innovator, and the forefathers of the family entertainment center industry (FEC) Jim and John Huish, were recently inducted to the “IAAPA Hall of Fame”. The IAAPA Hall of Fame honors (...) read more
The last ten years the dinner show „Fantissima“ at Phantasialand has been offering excellent entertainment and has established itself as a first-rate entertainment offer. In each season, the show reinvents itself – Manuela Löffelhardt, artistic (...) read more
Today the new X-Force Sports Club at Osnabrück’s Nettebad will officially be inaugurated. As reported by us earlier (cp. EAP news from 18 April 2013), with this new premium fitness offer the swimming pool and sauna complex wants to provide its (...) read more
Germany’s Heide Park Resort just recently declared the year 2014 to be “the year of the demons”. Accordingly, the resort revealed the name of Germany’s first wing coaster, which is going into operation on March 29 at Heide Park. Under the name (...) read more
When on April 5, 2014 the 20th annual Thea Awards will be presented in Anaheim, California, the winners will already be on their way to the venue as the announcement of the winners took already place at the end of last year. This time there are (...) read more
At the end of 2013, the “European Health & Spa Awards” were presented in Vienna. According to the Agentur für Gesundheit & Wellness (roughly: agency for health & wellness) from Vienna, 2013 set a record in terms of both the number of participants as (...) read more
