Tomorrow, April 15, the U.S. theme park Kings Island kicks-off its season. A new themed area and a new restaurant await guests this year. We already presented “Adventure Port” with its two new family attractions of the “Endeavour” and “Tea Cup” type (...) read more
The four-star Fårup Hotel, which opened at Fårup Sommerland in 2016, will be supplemented this season with new accommodation options. Specifically, the accommodation offer will be expanded by two new, chic tree house cabins – as the Danish theme (...) read more
Hotel, gastronomy and service expert Edith Gerhardt will join the board of management at Autostadt Wolfsburg on October 1, 2023. As part of the management team, she will be responsible for the delivery of new cars, conference management, gastronomy, (...) read more
After 1907 and 1975, for the third time the German garden show will be held in Mannheim this year. Starting today, April 14, visitors can look forward to over 5,000 events as well as a variety of attractions and exhibitions until October 8. BUGA (...) read more
Roller coaster manufacturer Larson International, founded in 1967, and Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC), founded in 2001, have announced their merger. The two manufacturers have already realized joint projects in recent years. Now the two companies (...) read more
In the Chinese province of Zhejiang, the new Zhejiang Wave Town leisure resort is under development, that will include hot springs facilities, hotels and a shopping mall. Ground was recently broken for this major construction project. The highlight (...) read more
To date, 32 Cirque du Soleil shows delight audiences around the world. Most recently the entertainment group has announced a new permanent show in cooperation with the Outrigger Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel in Hawaii. Exclusively in Honolulu, the show (...) read more
The Austrian winter sports center of Innsbruck will once again become an international meeting place for entrepreneurs and market players in the industry of mountain tourism next week, when the INTERALPIN, the world’s leading trade fair for alpine (...) read more
After 36 years, the Wellenbad am Spreewaldplatz in Berlin is being completely renovated. Guests are still able to visit the leisure pool, which belongs to Berliner Bäder-Betriebe (BBB), until 30 June. The refurbishment and modernization, costing (...) read more
After the completion of extensive general overhaul work on the “Regina” wooden roller coaster at Japan’s Tobu Zoo (located just under an hour’s drive north of the city of Saitama), the ride, which opened in 2000 and was supplied by manufacturer (...) read more
Klaus Huss has died. Born in July 1939, Klaus Huss passed away in Bremen on March 21, 2023, at the age of 83. He was a man whose life was linked to the amusement ride industry from a young age. Just as the name Huss is to this day inseparable from (...) read more
Earlier this month, the Jardin d’Acclimatation amusement park in Paris also started into its new season. In the run-up, one million euros were spent on maintenance and beautification work on the existing facilities. A new website was also launched. (...) read more
Building on the success of the first Doloris attraction that opened 2019 in Tilburg, the Netherlands, a second location has now been announced, coming to Utrecht in 2024. The concept of Doloris is not easy to explain – this becomes clear when you (...) read more
Opened in 2011, Italy’s MagicLand (former Rainbow MagicLand) in Valmontone, near Rome, is kicking off its 2023 season with several new attractions, including a new horror experience called “Dungeons”, which is a walkthrough attraction. Set in a (...) read more
The Chinese special administrative region of Macau has been attracting tourists to the city for many years. For a long time, this was thanks to the numerous casinos and the associated legal gambling. In recent years, however, Macau’s tourist focus (...) read more
On April 1st, Maximilian Mairinger has officially taken over as the new head of the “Experiences” business unit at Karls and is thus now responsible for the further development of the visitor offer at the various Karls Erlebnis-Dorf locations (...) read more
In order to make its commitment to nature conservation even more visible to visitors, Zurich Zoo has set up a Nature Conservation Center, which was officially inaugurated today and houses, among other elements, a 360-degree cinema in which current (...) read more
The Holland Park near Berlin, which opened its gates on 6 April last year for the very first time, will celebrate its anniversary tomorrow. It looks back on the past season with great satisfaction: the park has welcomed some 750,000 visitors to its (...) read more
Every year, Germany’s Phantasialand in Brühl (near Cologne) attracts numerous visitors with its line-up of signature rides, including the “F.L.Y.” Flying Dutchman coaster (Vekoma), the “Taron” multi-launch coaster and the “Chiapas” water ride (both (...) read more
Since this past weekend, London has another new attraction worth to be discovered: In the district of Earl’s Court (Kensington borough), the new BBC Earth Experience opened its doors to visitors for the first time. Produced in cooperation between (...) read more
