The four-star “Quellenhotel” (lit.: mineral spring hotel) is the heart of the Bad Waltersdorf health resort and has 350 beds. 370,000 people visited the Bad Waltersdorf curative spa and its Quellenhotel in 2006. The average duration of people’s (...) read more
The holiday park operator Landal GreenParks can look back on a successful year in 2006. Growing numbers of guests and the optimisation of the service spectrum have lead to an 11% increase in turnover, climbing to 215 million euros. Within the (...) read more
Candover Investments plc, one of the numerous American-British and generally very “hungry” investment firms, has announced the signing of an agreement on the takeover of Parques Reunidos. The Madrid-based group Parques Reunidos is held as the third (...) read more
In the next few months, Bremen’s tourist magnet will be supplemented with a pavilion for new exhibition space and an outdoor area with numerous experimental stations. The new discovery park is scheduled to open this summer. The new outdoor (...) read more
On the Wadden Sea island of Terschelling in one of the most popular holiday regions of the Netherlands, another Landal holiday park is being built across the Dutch coast and will open by the summer of 2008. Fifty-four luxury apartments are (...) read more
Christophe Jeannest, CEO of Center Parcs Europe recently announced massive investments for new holiday parks and the expansion of existing facilities. As a reminder: just last autumn, real estate from 11 Center Parcs in continental Europe was (...) read more
The financing of the historical 13-hectare village facility in the north of Wolfsburg has been secured. A “finance package” of 2.25 million euros has been agreed upon for the project. The equity ration of entrepreneur and operator Hartmut Gehrmann (...) read more
New for 2007: “Science House” as Europa Park’s own science centre: In cooperation with the German sponsoring society Science und Technologie, a “science house” will be opened at the start of the 2007 season, where attractions centred around (...) read more
For the first time in the history of the world’s oldest zoo, the 255-year old Tiergarten, a woman took up the reigns on the 1st of January 2007: Dr Dagmar Schratter. As reported by the Viennese press, the new Tiergarten director is planning a sort (...) read more
Ole Bested-Hensing has made it – or rather, he and his entire team of around 600 employees have: Tropical Islands in Krausnick (State of Brandenburg) opened to visitors right on time on the 27th of December 2006 after just eight weeks of (...) read more
After around eight months of construction, the NaturTherme (nature spa) in Templin (Uckermark/Germany) opened to the public again on the 23rd of December 2006. In mid-2005, the thermal spa that had opened just six years before was already faced (...) read more
Lotte World Korea stopped operations on January, 8th, immediately. As The Korea Times reported, the decision came after a report reviewing Lotte World’s facility safety. The Korea Disasters Research Institute and Dongyang Structural Engineers (...) read more
Legoland Günzburg is preparing a completely new themed area for the start of the season in late March 2007: “Land der Piraten” (Pirates’ Land). The new area is being built right behind the “Land der Abenteuer” (Adventure Land) on a ground space of (...) read more
Nearly four months after opening the ZOOM Erlebniswelt Afrika (African adventure world), visitor feedback has been overwhelming according to the operator: three-quarter of a million guests have already travelled to “Africa in Gelsenkirchen”. (...) read more
The “centrally located” Erlebnisbad Karlsruhe (“adventure bath” of Karlsruhe) has been under construction since April 2006 and should open to the public in October 2007. Investments amount to approximately 25 million euros and may not exceed this (...) read more
There’s a lot of hype surrounding “Palm Jumeirah” – the first of a number of planned artificial islands is currently ready for occupancy. Until the end of the year, the owners of around 3,999 flats and luxurious villas (the most noble and (...) read more
In Wroclaw (Breslau), a new aqua park is being created under the direction of the Stuttgart-based InterSPA GmbH. The facility in Poland is scheduled to open in the spring of 2007. Treatment, health, sports and adventure areas, gastronomy and a (...) read more
Since opening on the 1st of July, the new western city in Templin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern attracted 75,000 visitors right up until the end of the season. Friedhelm Schatz and René van der Putten, the managing directors of the Eldorado Abenteuer (...) read more
A few thousand people visited the Heide Park in Soltau on the first Advent weekend when it opened for Advent the first time. The park had turned itself into a sparkling sea of lights for the occasion. Angels and Father Christmases greeted the (...) read more
Bob Rogers, CEO and founder of BRC Imagination Arts, is the recipient of this year’s THEA Lifetime Achievement Award. For professionals from the trade, the significance of this coveted award is comparable to that of the Oscar for the film industry. (...) read more
