Since the grand opening of the Designer Outlet Centre (DOC) in Wolfsburg (see our print issue 2/08 for more details), a fight over the authorisation to build another outlet centre in Lower Saxony has ignited. Within six weeks of opening in (...) read more
The Paderborn-based spa operator Heribert Stork is investing more than 15 million euros in the construction of the "Gran Belveder Spa & Golf Resort". In such, the Scharbeutz spa on the Baltic Sea, which opened in 1993, will be enriched with a (...) read more
For the first time ever, Busch is expanding outside of the US and has announced some phenomenal expansion into Dubai (UAE). The Busch Entertainment Corporation (BEC), the division of the Anheuser-Busch enterprise geared to family entertainment, (...) read more
Architectural plans by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) for the science centre / aquarium / knowledge theatre in the HafenCity complex are sure to attract a great deal of attention and curiosity. Construction will (...) read more
In mid-2009 construction is set to begin on a holiday park at Lake Bostal in the Saarland, which has been in planning for over ten years now. 130 million euros are to be invested in the 90-hectare large site. The state of Saarland is expected to (...) read more
In 2004, the French Grévin Group bought Panorama Park from its founders, the Schulte-Wrede family. Grévin is now selling the park (around 60 hectares) to the entrepreneur Siegfried Hamm, who lives nearby. According to Rascal Hüppe, General Manager (...) read more
The current capacities at Wonnemar Ingolstadt have become too tight. Five to six hundred visitors daily and around 70,000 more guests in 2006 than in the previous year have called for an expansion of the facility. Three new saunas and a relaxation (...) read more
So now it’s “official”: The manufacturer of the ride that is planned for the new world of motorsports, the Erlebniswelt Nürburgring, is S&S Power, which asserted itself successfully in a global public call for tenders. “S&S Power is one of the (...) read more
At the sauna facility Therme1 in Bad Füssing, Europe’s first potato sauna opened on the 18th of January. With the new facility, an unusual sauna landscape has been created in a historical, lovingly kept four-sided courtyard in Rottal. This absolute (...) read more
Since losses were noted for three of the past four quarters, the American group that currently runs 21 parks has started to cut costs drastically. In doing so, expenditures for this year are to be cut by 60 million USD: The planned budget slash will (...) read more
Conny Gasser, senior partner of the Swiss amusement park Conny-Land and co-organiser of the Zurich Christmas Circus Conelli, has passed away. According to Radio Zürisee, the father of Circus Conelli suffered from a serious infectious disease and (...) read more
The offer of Landal Green Parks 2008 has been extended by two seaside holiday parks in The Netherlands: The Landal ‘Residence Terschelling’ features an island location in the mud flats and 54 luxurious holiday apartments with WLAN access. The (...) read more
Alexander Bresinsky has been appointed, as the first German, to the international board of the TEA (Themed Entertainment Association), the highest body of the organisation based in Burbank (California). The 39-year-old director of the Berlin-based (...) read more
In 2008 the first SeaLife Center outside Europe will open in the USA. The Second Gate of the English leisure park group Merlin Entertainments will open directly next to Legoland Carlsbad and be run with their tried-and-tested concept. (eap) read more
Alpamare was given the Industry Leadership Award by the WWA, ‘for its pioneering work and innovation leadership in waterparks’, as it was stated in the justification. The award was handed over to Dr. Max Anton Hoefter, the founder and inventor of (...) read more
Just because Las Vegas was a success from a purely economic point of view (without reference to ecological implications) does not mean that it is not possible to lose money in the sand by investing in a desert project somewhere else, like Aragonia, (...) read more
As made public at the end of November, AECOM Technology Corporation, a US listed company based in Los Angeles, has acquired Economic Research Associates (ERA), a reputable consultancy company in the leisure industry. ERA is also a much in demand and (...) read more
Merlin Entertainment is planning a Berlin variant of ‘Madame Tussauds’ according to various similarly reporting press contributions. A space of some 3,000 m² is required for about 100 envisaged wax figures. Wax figures cabinets already exist in (...) read more
The opening of the ‘Alpine Coaster’ on the glacier 3000 (Southwest Switzerland) in summer 2007 represents a very special coup for the alpine coaster manufacturer, Wiegand in Rasdorf, because it is the highest-situated coaster in the world – at a (...) read more
For around 80 million euros, a theme park with the flair of the Black Forest is to be built in the Black Forest village of Triberg (population: 5,000). The highest waterfalls in Germany—163 metres tall—can be marvelled at in Triberg. Yet the number (...) read more
