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Alain Trouvé, Compagnie des Alpes: It was a good season, attendance
was up across our parks, and so were per caps. The French stayed in France,
the Dutch stayed in Holland, the Belgians in Belgium, and so on. This was
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good for our local parks. If we look at Disney though, they had problems
Dollars – revised parking charge for
because their guests have to travel much further. For Compagnie des Alpes as
visitors to Walt Disney World or
a whole, it was a double success. The ski resorts did well because they got a
Universal Orlando in Florida
lot of snow, and then it was good for the leisure parks too. So we can invest!
Dallas Jones, Beech Bend Park & Splash Lagoon, USA: With the economy
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in the state it has been in, we expected to be down this year and we are down
overall. But there have been a few bright spots. The general public business
Number of lawsuits filed against
has been up about 10% and visitors to our park were very happy with the
FPI MB Entertainment LLC, owner of
experience and value for money. The negative side was in our corporate
Freestyle Music Park in Myrtle Beach,
business – company picnics and our camping. That business was down almost
South Carolina
50%. That has really hurt this year. We are optimistic about 2010 and will be
making a major announcement soon about additions for next year.
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Magnus T Wetterö. Skara Sommarland, Sweden: Our Year the game Skee-Ball was invented
unique rollercoaster Tranan [S&S’ first Freefly Coaster] was of course this year's by JD Estes. There are now believed to
big news, which we are very proud of. We´ve had a very good season, even be around 100,000 lanes in operation
though we had the wettest summer for many years in our region. We are a worldwide
two-piece park that offers our guests Northern Europe's largest aqua park and
an amusement park. One of our challenges for this summer season was to
make the park less weather dependent. The spending per customer has
30,000
increased and our research shows that our guests are very satisfied. We are
already looking forward to our next season!
Number of visitors during first two
months at new Ring°Werk motorsport
Steve Pastusak, Jolly Roger Amusement Park, USA:
park at Nürburgring race track in
When we get good weather we've been fine. We had horrible weather in
Germany
June, then we made a great comeback to finish the season above our
expectations.
25,000,000
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Pounds ($39.4m/€27.4m) – profit
generated last year by the London Eye.
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Ups
Gardens Gone - Land South Holdings has closed
&
the remainder of Cypress Gardens in Florida, just two
years after it purchased the park, gardens and water-
Downs
ski show business
Euro Attractions Go - IAAPA’s recent
Euro Attractions Show in Amsterdam
attracted “more than 8,000” visitors –
the best attendance yet
Strength in Numbers - About
25,000 unionised hourly employees at
Walt Disney World received a wage
UK OK - British ride manufacturers
Water Shortage - Plans for two proposed
increase on October 4
and suppliers are experiencing an
increase in export enquiries thanks to
waterparks have been abandoned in Queensland,
the weak pound
Australia. The consortium behind Adventura Water
Park will sell its land, while Aussie World will
remain as just an amusement park
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