Within the scope of the “Ideas Park” at the Messe Stuttgart trade fair centre, the name of an indoor facility was revealed and for the first time ever, visitors could get a peek at the “Sensapolis” attraction, the “City of 100 Adventures,” which is (...) read more
In late April Phantasialand celebrated the groundwork of its second themed hotel called Matamba, which is scheduled to open this summer. For the hotel’s interior décor, Phantasialand is once again having exclusive objects produced in a small village (...) read more
On the 50-hectare large former military training grounds of former East Germany’s “National People’s Army” in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a new adventure park with western and medieval shows is to be created in the tradition of American (...) read more
The Ruhr area is getting the first “Sommerrodelbahn” (summer toboggan run): At the Alpincenter Bottrop, the first attraction of this kind in the region will be celebrating its grand opening this July. The so-called “Sommerrodelbahn”, actually an (...) read more
In the holiday region of Heidiland, Switzerland is planning on opening its first-ever Heidi adventure world for young and old in July 2009. The primary goal of the project is to make the Swiss national treasure, Heidi, her “inventor” Johanna (...) read more
Three facilities (Bad Schallerbach, Bad Ischl and Bad Hall) that belong to the state-run Upper Austrian Thermenholding GmbH are to be marketed as one family brand in the future: “EurothermeResorts”. As was announced, the group plans on investing ten (...) read more
According to media reports, the tropical leisure park Tropical Islands has found a partner for its planned holiday house development: With an investment total of 130 million euros, the Danish Eske Group will be building a holiday village with up to (...) read more
Founder and owner of the Europa-Park in Rust near Freiburg, Roland Mack (58) has been received in the Légion d'honneur to the class of chevalier (knight).The decoration ceremony took place at the French embassy at Pariser Platz in Berlin. Ambassador (...) read more
The Siam Park in the south of the Canary Island of Tenerife is now (finally) set to open soon. In early May the huge facility run by Loro Parque owner Wolfgang Kiesling is to make its premiere. Europe’s largest waterpark complex will then span (...) read more
During a recent four-hour visit to the spa “Therme Erding”, Jörg Haider, Governor of Carinthia in Austria, informed himself in detail of the concept and proposition of Europe’s largest thermal spa and sauna facility. The unanimous opinion of the (...) read more
A new dinosaur park is set to open at the end of April 2008 on the Baltic Sea isle of Rügen. A total of 106 life-size primeval animal models will “populate” the park. The dinos were produced by the Bernd Wolter Design GmbH based in Rehburg-Loccum, (...) read more
On the peninsula of Tarnewitz, east of the Baltic Sea resort Boltenhagen, one of the largest holiday resorts in Germany is set to open at the end of April 2008 after five years of project development and a 20-month construction phase. The “Weiße (...) read more
“A decade of wild animals and wild places” was the motto of the celebrations for the ten-year anniversary of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park on 22 April 2008. The nature conservation efforts of Disney’s theme park were a focal point during the (...) read more
The former USSR’s answer to the American space shuttle programme was called “Buran”, which translates to “snowstorm” in English. After a long sea passage to Rotterdam from Bahrein, where the space shuttle stood in the desert for years, the former (...) read more
"Tower of Terror", probably one of the most exciting Disney attractions ever, awaits guests this season at Disneyland Paris. Up until now, the Disney parks in Orlando, California and Tokyo have also featured a "Tower of Terror". For the last (...) read more
Ever since the Tuscan spa resort "Toskana Therme Bad Sulza" (Thuringia) was opened as an EXPO project in 2000, the stream of enthusiastic visitors has not let up. The Tuscan spa is primarily associated with "liquid sound", the art of bathing in (...) read more
Contracts for the most expensive tourism investment in Pinzgau were signed in February. The facility consisting of a spa and hotel will cost a good 90 million euros and, according to ORF Salzburg, is to open in December 2010. Construction is set (...) read more
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
