The Dutch Toverland amusement park has a spectacular new park show called “Aqua Bellatores” in store for its visitors this season. Aqua Bellatores means “water fighters”, which gives an idea of the core of the show. Thus, water is at the center of (...) read more
Tomorrow, it’s the day: The new “Aquaman: Power Wave” water roller coaster opens at US theme park Six Flags Over Texas. The new attraction is the “Power Splash” model from German roller coaster manufacturer Mack Rides. On a total track length of 213 (...) read more
Recently, the former conference and exhibition center in Manchester’s leisure and retail complex TraffordCity was demolished, allowing the Therme Group to begin construction of Therme Manchester. The demolition was carried out by regeneration (...) read more
Internorga, the leading international trade fair for the out-of-home market, starts today in the halls of Hamburg Messe & Congress: during five days (through March, 14th), professionals in F&B such as operators of amusement parks and leisure (...) read more
Last year, the Dutch Efteling theme park welcomed 5.43 million visitors. A record result in its 70-year history! 81.5 percent of park guests came from the Netherlands, 12.4 percent from Belgium, 3.8 percent from Germany and 2.3 percent from other (...) read more
Universal Parks & Resorts, a unit of Comcast NBCUniversal, is becoming Universal Destinations & Experiences to better reflect the full breadth of innovative offerings Universal aims at bringing to theme park guests and consumers around the globe. (...) read more
March 24 marks the premiere of the new “Peanuts” edutainment show at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Called “All Systems Are Go”, the new show was produced by the Montreal-based production company Monlove. It will be shown in the facility’s (...) read more
Northern Germany’s Jaderpark has revealed the secret of a new themed area and large-scale attraction for 2024: On a site between the “Okavango River” flume ride (by Hafema, read the full article here EAP 5/2021), which opened two years ago, and the (...) read more
Merlin Entertainments has announced the development of a new Peppa Pig theme park. After the first park around the pink cartoon character opened in Florida in spring 2022, North America’s second destination of this kind is now under construction in (...) read more
The Catalan amusement park Tibidabo, located on the summit of the eponymous mountain in Barcelona and thus offering visitors a panoramic view of the metropolis in addition to numerous family-friendly and nostalgic attractions, started its season (...) read more
One of the first escape rooms in Germany opened in 2014 under the name ExitGames Stuttgart (which is by now represented there with two locations) – in the future they will operate as Team Escape Stuttgart. By April, both locations in the city, which (...) read more
Located around 60 kilometers south of Berlin guests can find the Tropical Islands resort, which offers them an exotic short vacation all year round. Tropical Islands announced today to expand the resort by a new hotel complex, which will dock onto (...) read more
Starting tomorrow, representatives of the international travel industry will meet in Berlin to learn and exchange ideas on the latest trends and developments in global tourism at the ITB (7-9 March 2023). It is the first time since the start of the (...) read more
The ELORIA Erlebnisfabrik, operated by ELORIA GmbH – a subsidiary of Berlin-based Paperdice Solutions GmbH, which is one of the largest escape room providers in the country with more than 100 escape room facilities – has expanded its escape room (...) read more
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London is celebrating its 11th anniversary this year like the birthday of a Hogwarts student with an invitation to the wizarding school. From May 2nd to September 4th, visitors can explore Harry Potter’s early years at (...) read more
The Dutch theme park Efteling has announced a new restaurant concept for its park. The existing restaurant “Panomara” is currently being transformed to the new “Kashba”. Together with the Dutch restaurant chain La Place and the catering service (...) read more
US-based Six Flags Entertainment Corporation recently unveiled their attraction highlights for the 2023 season. Six Flags President & CEO Selim Bassoul on the announced lineup: “These new attractions are an exciting opportunity to ramp up the joy of (...) read more
Today, U.S.-based Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, which operates 27 theme and water parks in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, announced its full year 2022 results. The company’s key financials are as follows: With total revenues of 1,358 million (...) read more
The Italian theme park Roma World, which is part of the Cinecittà World, theme park opened in the summer of 2020 under difficult conditions during the pandemic. Now the park has announced its expansion plans for the next seven years. Currently, it (...) read more
Back in 2021, we reported that the city of Dortmund was investing 31 million euros as part of the “Dortmund Zoo 2023 Future Concept” in the Dortmund Zoo, which is home to around 1,600 animals in 173 species. In recent years, some of the investments (...) read more
