(eap) Nick Varney, who headed the British operator group Merlin Entertainments as CEO for 23 years until his retirement last fall, has now been awarded the prestigious peerage of “Sir” in the 2023 King’s Birthday Honours List for outstanding (...) read more
(eap) Palace Entertainment, the U.S. subsidiary of the Madrid-based Parques Reunidos group, announces new appointments on their executive level: longtime Six Flags management member Michael (Mike) Lusky takes over as General Manager of Adventureland (...) read more
(eap) The tropical house The Green Planet™ located in Dubai’s City Walk neighborhood, which houses more than 3,000 plants and animals and aims across four levels to educate visitors about the rainforest (cp. EAP 6/2016), will soon add a new outdoor (...) read more
(eap) Today was the day: Employees, press representatives and project participants celebrated the opening of the new dark ride roller coaster “Uncharted: El Enigma de Penitence” at Catalonia’s PortAventura theme park. As of tomorrow, all park (...) read more
(eap) “We are very happy that we can get started now,” said Antje Angeli, Director of Rostock Zoo, during the official groundbreaking ceremony today for the start of construction works on the new seal enclosure (c.f. our Park Report in EAP 2/2023). (...) read more
(eap) After a three-year pandemic-related hiatus, hopes were high that IAAPA Expo Asia in Singapore, now back as an in-person event for the first time, would set a benchmark for the attractions market and trade show development in the economically (...) read more
(eap) St. Louis, MO (USA)-based SkyView Partners and Tegethoff Development, together with Fred Ross, owner of Big Thunder Marine, have announced that the development plan for a new family resort and entertainment district at the Lake of the Ozarks (...) read more
(eap) Spain’s capital Madrid is known for its passionate love for sports – so far mainly for its soccer teams, but in the future certainly also for urban surfing. A large artificial beach facility including a surf park is scheduled to open in the (...) read more
(eap) Tomorrow, June 16, “PARK BEYOND”, a new theme park simulator game for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC will be released. For this occasion, Movie Park Germany and the game’s publisher Bandai Namco Germany are cooperating. In Park (...) read more
(eap) Fort Fun Abenteuerland, operated by Looping Group, is introducing the “pure.AIS” waiting time recording system from Detmold (Germany)-based provider purematic in its entrance area and at selected attractions and stations in the park. The (...) read more
(eap) Since Saturday, visitors to Plopsa Coo can now experience the “Smurfs” and their very own attraction at the Belgian amusement park. With “De Smurfer”, a completely revamped Vekoma roller coaster has been redesigned and adapted to the Smurfs (...) read more
(eap) In November, the world’s first “Frozen”-themed area will celebrate its premiere at Hong Kong Disneyland. Entitled as the park’s largest expansion, the new themed area will include two new attractions in addition to an impressive realization of (...) read more
(eap) The Kristall Palm Beach near Nuremberg delighted its bathing guests last Wednesday (7 June) with the opening of a new large water slide complex – no fewer than four new stainless steel slides, complete with a slide tower and run-out pools, (...) read more
(eap) Last Friday, Leipzig Zoo (Germany) celebrated not only an elephant offspring, but also its very own birthday. 145 years ago, innkeeper Ernst Pinkert first opened the gates of the Pfaffendorfer Hof as an animal garden. Until today, the former (...) read more
In Groenlo (Netherlands), near the German border, a new indoor theme park is currently under development next to the N18 highway. The theme park with an area of 9,000 square meters is being developed by Marveld Recreatie – a vacation park with (...) read more
(eap) For its members from the Asian region, the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) – back as an in-person event for the first time since 2019 – is hosting IAAPA Expo Asia in Singapore this week. The educational (...) read more
(eap) With a total of 71 km of slopes, Trysil is the largest ski resort in Norway. With dedicated areas and slopes for children, beginners, advanced and professionals on skis & snowboards, the winter sports destination, located an about 2.5 hours’ (...) read more
(eap) The US theme park Kings Island in Cincinatti/Ohio (belonging to the Cedar Fair Entertainment Company) celebrates today the official opening of its newest themed area “Adventure Port”. While with “Sol Spin” (Endeavour) and “Cargo Loco” (Tea Cup (...) read more
(eap) With a Grand Opening party, the new sports & event location RheinRiff in Meerbusch (not far from NRW’s capital city of Düsseldorf) opens its doors for the first time today. Among the highlights of the indoor center, which is housed in a former (...) read more
(eap) This year's summer meeting of the European Waterpark Association e.V. (EWA), the association representing the interests of European leisure pools and spas, brought 90 experts from the water park industry to Lake Constance from June 4 to 6 – (...) read more
