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• Bring your product or service into the homes of your guests – Our SkyPoint business is working on how-to videos for menu items and cocktails that guests can create at home.
Coen Bertens, theme park director, Efteling: Thrill seekers can still experience the adrenaline rush of riding a roller coaster through our series of on-ride videos available on the Efteling YouTube channel, which are filmed from the front carriage on rides at Efteling. For Example, viewers can experience the tale of De Vliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman) and the jaw-dropping Baron 1898 dive coaster – which plunges 37.5m into a mineshaft at
platforms and online channels to support its membership with education, professional development, discussion and networking. The program will support online discussion threads, webinars, watch parties, virtual mixers and more – including an online job fair.
Thorsten Backhaus, Movie Park Germany
TEA Digital launches The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) has launched TEA Digital to use the organisation’s dedicated, global
2022 is going to be a big year for Village Roadshow Theme Parks and we are excitingly opening The New Atlantis precinct at Sea World including the Leviathan, which will be the largest wooden coaster in Australia and will take guests on a thundering 90 second quest across wooden terrain, through exhilarating banked turns, crossovers, drops and dips and the Trident which will be Sea World’s newest and tallest landmark, towering in the heart of The New Atlantis precinct, where guests can defy gravity as they soar and spin freely 42 metres above the sea.
David Nouaille, Puy du Fou, France, Spain, China After a delayed start to the 2021 season, we were pleased and surprised to observe a gradual return to near normal attendance, with a level of satisfaction and emotion still at the top for visitors.
Regarding the 2022 season, we hope that next year will mark the end of this uncertain period to turn the page and focus on all our new creations to come. All our energy is already concentrated on the future and on the emotion that we want to share with our visitors to our shows in France, Spain and China.
Movie Park Germany closed its 25th anniversary season with a successful Halloween Horror Festival and a solid increase in visitors compared to the previous year. We hope for a regular start to this year's season and to be able to reopen our previously closed attractions such as the stunt show ‘Crazy Cops New York’, the 4-D cinema, ‘Time Riders’ and ‘The Lost Temple’.
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Intamin Amusement Rides has announced that its raging bull LSM Double Launch Coaster “All Speeds” successfully opened to the public and made its first runs with guests on 31 December 2021 at Sunac Land Chengdu in China.
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Covid-19: IAAPAprovidesadditional resources Visitors to the IAAPAMember Resource Center can learn more about the support in their region and take advantage of free IAAPA resources, including Covid-19 webinars, a Crisis Communications Plan Template, the IAAPA Security Advisory Program, Covid-19 Educational Series and more.
colouring in pages for our guests to print at home that will both keep them engaged with our brand and keep our brand front of mind. • Use honesty to create impactful social content – Our park has wildlife that needs care even in a lock-down situation, so we’re telling and showing our guests how we’re continuing to do this.
A highlight for 2021 for Village Roadshow Theme Parks, was our Hooray for Hollywood event which we hosted to celebrate Warner Bros. Movie World’s 30th Birthday. The event featured the park’s biggest parade ever, a massive all-star cast and exciting character-driven experiences.
Paul Callander, chief strategy officer, Dreamworld, WhiteWaterWorld, SkyPoint: Adapt your brand presence to the environment –We have created
• Find aspects of your business to make virtual –We have set up live stream filming of some of our wildlife so that guests can watch them from home and keep having “Dreamworld” experiences.
Another highlight was celebrating Sea World’s 50th Birthday and we marked the momentous occasion with a celebration on the Sea World Ski Lake with a gigantic 50th birthday cake and a host of park’s most-loved characters and experiences.
90km/h. The channel also has walk-throughs of the recently opened attraction, Fabula as well as three different journeys through the magical Symbolica: Palace of Fantasy. Alongside this, users can get Efteling tips from Efteling
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employees, behind-the-scenes access and sneak peaks of the new double family roller coaster,Max &Moritz.
Pia Adlivankin, CEO, Linnanmäki Amusement Park: During this exceptional time we want to keep our guests close and still offer them fun and joy with amusement park -like
experiences through our multiple channels. For children who are being homeschooled right now, we offer joy in the form of free-of-charge learning materials on our website related to Linnanmäki Amusement Park and also current topics such as learning media skills. Across our popular social media channels we offer
Ripley En ertainment:With so many families staying at home and looking for ways to keep their children
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entertained, we have created a way for our guests to engage with Ripley’s virtually. Ripley’s Aquariums at Home and Outside the
amusing content such as many quizzes, fun things to do, challenges and funny contests to keep the younger-ones entertained. Also, Linnanmäki has enchanting material throughout its 70-year-old history, so we have brought photographs from our archives to our social media channels for people to marvel and to refresh their good amusement park memories. In addition, this spring we will launch our very own
amusement park boardgame, featuring a range of fun tasks that will challenge their intellect. This game will enable our guests to enjoy Linnanmäki Amusement Park while at home.
Smurfs theme park re-opens in China After a long period of closure, Smurfs theme park ‘Dream City’ in China has opened its doors again for the public. One of the main attractions is Lagotronics Project’s recently installed GameChanger dark ride, ‘Swamp Adventure’, which is completely themed in Smurfs style.
Mark Woodbury, vice chairman of Universal Parks & Resorts and president, Universal Creative, will become chairman and chief executive officer upon the retirement of current chairman Tom Williams, the company has announced. Williams will retire effective 16 March 2022. Woodbury stepped into his new role on 1 January 2022.
Odditorium can be used as hubs for a schedule of live Facebook events, downloadable educational materials, arts-and-crafts, and more. Be sure to follow us to tune in for events like Story Time
workers to bring to life the fun found at "Pittsburgh’s Premier Destinations for Family Entertainment".
Live!, Champs & Chumps with Dustyn, and even live readings ofMoby Dick… on toilet paper! These sites will be continuously updated with additional
lesson plans and activities throughout the week. Following advice from health officials to practice social
distancing, our Ripley’s Believe It or Not! attractions and Ripley’s Aquariums are temporarily closed, but we are thankful for the opportunity to deliver free, family-friendly entertainment and educational Ripley’s programs directly to your homes.
Simworx, a leading designer and manufacturer of media- based attractions for theme parks and visitor attractions, has launched a brand- new website. Users can now browse the improved site interface and explore the company's expansive product
portfolio covering 15 attractions, from 4D Cinemas to Flying Theatres, Immersive Tunnels to VR.
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After 12 months of renovation, the Sleeping Beauty Castle has reopened to guests at Disneyland Paris. Themed tarps and scaffolding have disappeared to reveal a monument that has been restored to its former glory as the 30th Anniversary of Europe’s top tourist destination approaches. The celebrations of this 30th Anniversary will begin on 6 March 2022.
Covid-19: IAAPAprovidesadditional resources Visitors to the IAAPAMember Resource Center can learn more about the support in their region and take advantage of free IAAPA resources, including Covid-19 webinars, a Crisis Communications Plan Template, the IAAPA Security Advisory Program, Covid-19 Educational Series and more.
TessaMaessen, Communications Manager, Toverland:We keep our guests entertained through our social media channels.We share our park shows and on ride videos of our main attractions.We also provide games to play at home and ask our followers to share their best Toverland memories with us.
attractions.We also provide games to play at home and ask our followers to share their best Toverland memories with us.
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Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi succeeded in breaking two GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS titles in celebration of the festive season for ‘Most Contributions to a Color by Numbers’ and ‘Most Contributions to a Greetings Card’.
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