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
Soon the year is over … until then, the Stadtwerke Osnabrück, responsible for the operation of three swimming pool complexes in Osnabrück /Germany, hope to reach a new annual visitor record. At Nettebad, the one million mark could already be reached (...) 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
Merlin Entertainments recently announced to open a new Madame Tussauds attraction in Prague in late 2013 / spring 2014. With the opening of a Madame Tussauds in Vienna in 2011 and the new Berlin Dungeon due to open next year, Merlin takes another (...) 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
Lo-Q, provider of virtual queuing systems, yesterday announced the acquisition of US-based ticketing and e-Commerce company accesso LLC for a total consideration of 13.7 million GBP (around 16.9 million EUR). accesso has been offering ticketing (...) read more
Yesterday saw the groundbreaking ceremony for one of the two new waterparks currently being built in Las Vegas. The waterpark planned to be opened in Henderson (cp. EAP 2/2012) is now called Cowabunga Bay Waterpark Las Vegas. The 23 million US (...) read more
Germany’s Lentpark in Cologne, a combination of elevated skating rink, skating rink and swimming pool facility opened in 2011, opened its new sauna area in November 2012. The new sauna section offers four different sauna cabins on a 1,000 square (...) read more
As was announced last week by SeaWorld, the opening of another SeaWorld water park in the US is planned for spring 2013. The third Aquatica water park (the other ones are located in Orlando, Florida and San Antonio, Texas) will be opened south of (...) read more
Again another mega city announced the construction of an observation wheel. After New York, Moscow and Las Vegas (cp. EAP 5/2012), this time it’s Hong Kong that may add an observation wheel to its attractions. In an official tender notice, published (...) read more
Flying Saucer and BASF will be awarded „German Design Award 2013“. Berlin-based attraction design company Flying Saucer receives this renowned prize in the category of “Audiovisual, Digital and Interactive Media” for the interactive periodic table (...) read more
On 12 November 2012, showman Fritz Kinzler passed away at the age of 77 in Stuttgart, Germany. Born in 1935 as one of five children of the carney couple Robert and Johanna Kinzler, Fritz Kinzler had been enthusiastic about fairs ever since. His (...) read more
After more than a quarter century as the head of the company, Ken Bell is retiring from his role as President of The Dollywood Company with effect of December 2012. Dolly Parton’s theme park as well as Dollywood’s Splash Country waterpark evolved to (...) read more
