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Only recently has the new interactive attraction “Do You Speak Beluga?” at Seoul’s Lotte World theme park been opened to guests. As we reported in our online news from Jan 8, 2013, it was the California-based design company The Goddard Group which (...) read more

In less than two weeks the London Dungeon, after 38 years of operation, will close its doors at Tooley Street forever … but don’t worry, the new London Dungeon opens 1 March 2013 in the underground vaults of County Hall on the South Bank next to the (...) read more

Michael Hahn has been supporting Zierer in the distribution of their products in China since 2012. Hahn was born in Germany but has been living in Shanghai for several years now and he successfully represented other German brands there. Wolfgang (...) read more

Do good and talk about it – following this motto, the EurothermenResorts Group supports Karl Heinz Böhm’s campaign “Menschen für Menschen” by donating 10,000 Euros for the construction of a fountain for the new school “Oberösterreich-Schule” in (...) read more

Four of five hotels of Germany’s biggest amusement park, Europa-Park, received an award from the hotel evaluation platform HolidyCheck. The selection of award winners was based on more than 780,000 hotel evaluations from the year 2012 provided by (...) read more

DP Leisure (DPL), operator of the 360 Play family entertainment centre brand, has opened its third FEC in the UK last December. The new venue was planned and designed by DPL’s sister company DP Associates (DPA) and opened at the Meridian Leisure (...) read more

Founded in 1973, “Club van Elf”, the Dutch association of leading visitor attractions, has elected new board members during their annual meeting. Mascha van Till, General Director of Walibi Holland, is the new President of the association following (...) read more

Pete Barto is the new sales manager at US-based rollercoaster and park attraction supplier Premier Rides. Jim Seay, President of Premier Rides, said, “We are excited to have Pete on board. The combination of Pete’s sales expertise and extensive (...) read more

As Germany’s Hannover Adventure Zoo has announced at the end of last year, a new home will be created for the chimpanzees during the next months and through to the autumn of 2013. Firstly, the indoor enclosure will be renovated until February 2013 (...) read more

Right on time for the start of the next season, Germany’s Legoland Deutschland in Günzburg will open a new interactive indoor attraction on March 23, 2013. Along with the new Knight’s Castle hotel that will open in Legoland’s Holiday Village, it (...) read more

Seoul-based theme park Lotte World opens a new interactive theater show called “Do You Speak Beluga?” in January 2013. The new attraction results from a collaboration between Lotte World and Hollywood-based design firm The Goddard Group. Visitors (...) read more

After a construction period of only seven months, the Europabad Karlsruhe opened its new sauna village at the end of November. It’s the next novelty implemented at this swimming pool facility following the expansion of its attraction line-up through (...) read more

At the beginning of November, Phantasialand in Brühl, Germany presented its plans for a park expansion reduced from initial 30 to 19 hectares (cp. EAP news from Nov 9, 2012). Now the plans have been approved by the regional council. The final (...) read more

In the autumn of the last year, Great Wolf Resorts, a large family of indoor waterpark resorts in North America, announced the promotion of Timothy D. Black as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Black has more than 18 years of (...) read more

While the construction of Saarland’s Center Parcs Park Bostalsee in Germany is well underway (please read our detailed report in our upcoming magazine issue EAP 1/2013), the responsible parties involved in the development of another holiday park (...) read more

The Danish amusement park Djurs Sommerland will open Europe’s first double launch coaster for the 2013 season in May next year. Not only the two launch sections will be a highlight of the new ride supplied by Intamin, also the special cars of the (...) read more