SmartUs is a new technological entertainment/learning concept from the Lappset Group (as previously reported in EAP 6/2005). Dortmund is the first German city to implement this revolutionary playground concept outdoors. SmartUs presents children (...) read more
As though it had fallen from the sky, Majorca’s wackiest house stands upside down in the centre of Magaluf. The Tibetan style “House of Katmandu” invites visitors to participate in interactive adventures. Here they can listen to stories about the (...) read more
Mullewapp, the character from the children’s books by author and illustrator Helme Heine, has been brought to life in a new children’s play paradise at the Erlebnis Zoo Hannover (Hanover adventure zoo). The attraction is to be opened on the 21st of (...) read more
Holiday makers can look forward to 90 luxury beach-side holiday homes in the Baltic spa town of Travemünde: Landal GreenParks is set to open the Landal Travemünde holiday park on the 3rd of August 2007. (eap) read more
BBC News reports that the private equity firm Blackstone has sold off their property assets of some of its Tussauds theme parks to entrepreneur Nick Laslau. Blackstone acquired the Tussauds Group and merged it with its own Merlin Entertainments (...) read more
According to information from Centropolitan, a new spa is to be built on the Austrian-Czech border between Valtice in Southern Moravia and Schrattenberg in Lower Austria, at a cost of 70 million euros. It will be located on a 12-hectare site (...) read more
Last year’s visitor numbers make the Cedar Fair Group the fourth largest operator of Theme- and Waterparks in the world. It was only in June 2006 that Cedar Fair bought Paramount Parks for around 1.2 billion USD (as reported in EAP). The New York (...) read more
Following the authorisation by the EU competition authorities, the fusion announced in March between Merlin Entertainments Group and The Tussauds Group was completed on the 22nd of May 2007. This consolidation formed the second largest operator of (...) read more
X-GARDEN, a family centre specially geared to the needs of children and women, will be opening this September. Women and kids, the centre point of the concept, can indulge themselves at the 10,000-sqm large facility – a combination of shopping, (...) read more
On the 25th of May 2007, “Dickens World” in Chatham, just southeast of London, opened its doors. The theme park is housed in a specially constructed building where the characters from Dickens’ (1812-1870) books and era come to life: The orphan (...) read more
With the purchase of an 11-square kilometre site with a number of old buildings, a medieval castle, a hotel, 18-hole golf course and meadows, TUI is planning the largest tourism project in Tuscany and in the company’s history. For this unique (...) read more
Last year saw the inauguration of the “Fisser Flieger” in the Möser alp, which we covered in detail in issue 5/2006. This summer funpark on a mountain plateau 2,000 metres above sea level is to acquire another attraction in mid-July: Skyswing (...) read more
“Vilvite” (literally “want to know”) science centre was opened at the end of May in the Norwegian Hanseatic city of Bergen. It features 75 exhibits housed in a space of 1,700 square metres covering the topics of climate, sea and energy. Visitors (...) read more
“Hankatten” is the name of the new spinning coaster from Gerstlauer Amusement Rides for Bonbon-Land in Holme-Ostrup, Denmark. This spinning coaster is the first of its kind in Europe and is sure to be a hit with the whole family. According to (...) read more
At the start of this year’s season, Italy’s largest theme park opened a new 4D cinema from 3DBA & Kraftwerk Living Technologies. The new attraction is integrated in the Egyptian themed area, beneath Gardaland Theatre that was constructed in 2006. It (...) read more
Friedrichshafen’s exhibition centre is transferring the two trade fairs “Play & Leisure” and “Camp Ground” to the Stuttgart exhibition centre. Both fairs were to have taken place at Lake Constance in October 2007. “Play & Leisure”, an international (...) read more
At the opening of the 33rd “pink weeks” at Holiday Park in Hassloch/Pfalz, patron Roswitha Beck thanked Holiday Park for its many years of voluntary support. Fifteen thousand visitors from children’s homes and disabled peoples’ homes, special (...) read more
The film architect and stage builder of Europa Park, Ulrich Damrau, passed away on the 25th of May at the age of 92. For over 25 years he was not only responsible for the creative realisation of the European theme concept at Europa Park, but was (...) read more
In Hong Kong's restaurants and eateries, the (disciplined and educative) idea of a local gastronome has attracted a great deal of both sympathy and controversy. As recently reported in the “Christian Science Monitor”, diners who take more from the (...) read more
The large “Ferrari World Theme Park” project on Al Yas Island went into the final stages of construction at the end of last year. With an area space of 2.5 million square metres, the island is one of the largest natural islands in the Emirates. The (...) read more
