Germany’s Phantasialand in Brühl has been negotiating with local authorities about expansion areas for years. Yesterday the park presented a new plan for a possible expansion until 2015. The new plan envisages new investments and restructurings on a (...) read more
Built in 1896 and suffering from financial troubles for years, the struggling amusement park in the heart of the Hungarian capital city definitely closed at the start of November. The last move by its municipal administration owners was only their (...) read more
John McReynolds has been elected third vice chairman of the IAAPA Board of Directors. His career in the amusement industry began in 1995 when McReynolds joined the team of Universal Orlando as government relations manager. In 2007 he was promoted to (...) read more
The Guinness Book of World Records is always popular, and the most idiotic records attain significant media attention creating publicity, publicity, publicity! What recently happened in front of 8,000 visitors at French amusement park Futuroscope (...) read more
The spa at Bad Radkersburg, Austria is located in actual sight of the Austrian-Slovenian border and is currently entwined in a tricky situation: Only some 300 meters away from the spa facility just on the Slovenian side of the border, Slovenian (...) read more
It has recently been announced that the EU has long been a sponsor of an amusement park planned for Morocco, already having invested more than one million Euros. French vacation park concern Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs is the primary shareholder (...) read more
Last week, the must-attend event for the industries of waterparks, swimming pools, saunas and spas, the interbad 2012, was held in Stuttgart, Germany. The international trade show took place from 9 to 12 October 2012 at Messe Stuttgart. Over 500 (...) read more
Andreas Veilstrup Andersen, president and CEO of Liseberg, launches a new roller coaster for 2014 - longer and faster than any other coaster in the park. Projekt Helix – that’s the name of the new one – will be the park's biggest investment ever. (...) read more
This year’s Euro Attractions Show (EAS), Europe’s largest trade show for the attractions industry, welcomed more than 8,100 visitors in Berlin (official figures have not been communicated yet) – a new visitor record! More than 350 exhibitors from (...) read more
In mid-September, Tenerife’s Siam Park celebrated its 2nd anniversary. Siam Park, by many referred to as Europe’s most beautiful themed waterpark, was opened in the South of the Canary Island in September 2008 and inaugurated by the Thai Princess (...) read more
Halloween is close! In Germany and other European countries theme and amusement parks are organizing special Halloween events and attractions, whereas in the US there is a professional haunted attraction industry with attractions only operating (...) read more
At the beginning of this month, Lo-Q, provider of virtual queuing systems for theme and water parks, announced to have signed a partnership agreement with the Australian Sanderson Group. The aim of this partnership is to spearhead Lo-Q’s expansion (...) read more
„Yukon Bay“, the seventh themed area at Hanover’s Adventure Zoo, was opened in 2010 and has invited visitors to a Canada-inspired landscape since then (cf. EAP 4/2010). In “McKenzies Robbenshow” (McKenzie’s seal show) visitors get to know everything (...) read more
EurothermenResort Bad Schallerbach has developed itself over the years to one of the most popular thermal spas and waterparks in Austria. This summer the bathing complex facility celebrated its 90th anniversary. Since 1922 many millions of guests (...) read more
More than 45,000 spectators on ten consecutive evenings came to Berlin’s “Zentraler Festplatz” (central fairground) to see a mobile multi-media show event. “Aquanario”, a show consisting of water, fire, laser, lighting and firework effects, was (...) read more
In Denmark’s city of Randers, located within a three hour drive north of Kiel, a new leisure swimming pool facility with a 50-meter swimming pool, leisure offers as well as fitness studio, sauna and gastronomy is planned to be built until May 2014. (...) read more
Fårup Sommerland, which recorded 600,000 visitors this season, has already announced a new attraction for the coming year. “Orkanen”, meaning hurricane resp. tornado, is the name of the new Suspended Coaster from Vekoma which is scheduled to open at (...) read more
At the beginning of August, the listed Cedar Fair Entertainment Company had reported record results for its second quarter already – the net revenues for the fiscal second quarter increased to 357.6 million US Dollars (about 280.5 million Euros) (...) read more
At a height of 135 meters the London Eye has been the highest public viewing point in London so far from which visitors can also see Lord Norman Foster’s skyscraper “The Gherkin” (180 meters high). But since July a new bizarre building reaches into (...) read more
At the end of June Center Parcs Les Hauts de Bruyères in central France opened a new waterslide attraction at its Aqua Mundo waterpark. The 100 meter long “Tospy-Turvy” slide, supplied by ProSlide, starts in a height of nine meters. In single or (...) read more
