After almost five years at the helm of the WILDLANDS Adventure Zoo in Emmen, the Netherlands, which opened in 2016 (see also EAP 4/2016), interim director Erik van Engelen is leaving the company in June. The supervisory board has now appointed Julius Minnaar (53) as his successor, who will take up his new post in June and from ...
Today is the day: after successful test days, the Yakari adventure world opens at Fort Fun Abenteuerland, which is based in the Sauerland region (Germany). For the first time, the family theme park is integrating an IP into its theme portfolio. Fans of the children’s TV series “Yakari” can look forward to a themed world covering a total of 10,000 square meters with two new rides ...
Tomorrow, April 29, the U.S. amusement park Lake Compounce (Connecticut), operated by Palace Entertainment, will start into this year’s season. With the beginning of the season, the ride that has been voted the world’s best wooden roller coaster five times and is so popular with visitors – the “Boulder Dash Mountain Coaster” – will feature a new ...
As announced earlier today, Xavier Verellen will take over as the new Commercial Director leading the sales and marketing team of the Plopsa Group as of 2 May. Koen Clement, interim CEO of the Plopsa Group, says: “We are very excited about the arrival of Xavier. He brings experience, drive and creativity. Hard work, too, and ...
Drayton Manor theme park, located in the English Midlands, will open a new flume ride attraction for visitors next Saturday. “Thomas & Percy’s Submarine Splash” is the name of the new water attraction, which is set in the “Thomas Land” themed area, which in turn celebrates its 15th anniversary this year ...
Last year at the Aquatica Orlando water park, the tube slide attraction “Dolphin Plunge”, which opened in 2008, received an update and was transformed into “Reef Plunge” (cf. EAP 2/2022). For this year’s season, the park, which is part of the SeaWorld Entertainment Group, has planned the creation of a new children’s area including numerous water play elements and ...
Germany’s Holiday Park located in Haßloch (Rhineland-Palatinate), which is operated by the Belgian Plopsa theme park group, has announced a new event to go with the “Wickieland” theme area, which opened in 2021. The so-called “Vic the Viking Adventure Weekend” will bring favorite heroes from the children’s series “Vic the Viking” to the theme park from April 29 to May 1 ...
Since this week, a new indoor playworld has been attracting families with children of all ages to the RiverlandTM shopping and gastronomy mile on the premises of Dubai ParksTM and Resorts. “Neon Galaxy” is the name of the multi-level, space-themed activity park, offering a wide variety of activities. While the youngest children ...
Opened in 2017 and supplied by Gravitykraft Corporation (a sister company of The Gravity Group), the “Mine Blower” wooden roller coaster at the Fun Spot America amusement park (location: Kissimmee, FL) is to partially receive new track elements. The focus will be on the most dynamically loaded sections ...
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation has appointed Angus Jenkins to the newly created position of vice president of maintenance and engineering. Jenkins and four other regional directors will oversee and support maintenance and engineering operations at the 27 Six Flags properties ...
Yesterday, during a festive evening gala with around 1,000 invited guests at Europa-Park in Rust (Baden-Wuerttemberg), entrepreneur Korbinian Kohler was honored with the “Hotelier of the Year” award for his outstanding achievements in building a unique hospitality world at Tegernsee. In the fall of 2022, Kohler opened the new indoor experience world Tegernsee Phantastisch ...
UK-based Scruffy Dog Creative Group, with design studios in London, Barcelona and Dubai, recently announced the launch of a new division. The new architectural model making division is called “M.A.D. Models” („Make A Difference“) and is part of the company’s modern production facility in Birmingham, where the ...
The Världskulturmuseet (Museum of World Culture) in Gothenburg, Sweden, which is located right next to Liseberg theme park, has been presenting the new special exhibition “A World of Games” since earlier this month, which is dedicated to numerous board and social games across different cultures ...
On April 28, the new roller coaster “Knolli’s Mini-K2” will make its debut in all five Karls Adventure Villages. What’s special about this new attraction is that it doesn’t need any electricity – it’s powered quite sustainably solely by muscle power.“Our guests can look forward to a unique experience, the whole family can enjoy: The kids sit in the wooden lorry car, while mom and dad ...
For more than ten years, Parc Bagatelle, opened in 1955 in the municipality of Merlimont in the north of France, has been part of the Looping Group. With the appointment of François-Jérôme Parent as director, one of the grandchildren of the park founder took over the management of the park in 2015. Since then, investments have been made in the further development of the park, ...
Last weekend, Pilsner Urquell: The Original Beer Experience opened in the center of Prague. Here, visitors can find out all about the history of the world’s first golden lager. A 90-minute tour through the 3,500-square-meter exhibition includes a 360-degree interactive gaming zone as well as a beer tasting. A modern audio guide, which automatically connects to the elements of ...
Puy du Fou España, which opened its gates in Toledo in 2021 for the very first time (read our article in EAP 3/2021), has already sold over 400,000 tickets ahead of its official season launch earlier this month – a great sign for the targeted development of visitor numbers in the coming months, which almost approached the one million guest mark ...
A sad fate befalls Dubai’s theme park landscape: After the Bollywood Parks™ theme park belonging to Dubai Parks™ & Resorts (DXB Entertainments / Dubai Entertainment Holding) was temporarily closed to visitors during the month of Ramadan (from 22 March to 21 April 2023), the park will from now on keep its ...
On the occasion of the birthday of park co-founder Anton Pieck (1895-1987), Efteling inaugurated the redesigned “Anton Pieck Plein” this past Wednesday, which is intended to exude an atmosphere of times gone by. Among other things, park visitors can attend a performance in the renovated puppet theatre from 1954 or ride the chain flyer with musical monkey animal figures ...
Multimedia production studio Moment Factory, which has completed more than 525 projects worldwide, and international audiovisual media and technology services company Electrosonic have announced their partnership. The two companies have already implemented various projects together in the past. Most recently for the new Terminal A at New Ark Liberty ...
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