What were factors keeping attendance from growing more?
-13.1%
São Paulo theme parks decline in visitors since 2010
Weather was a considerable factor but not the only one. In São Paulo, major declines were experienced that more than offset the gains in Bogota. At Playcenter, eight people were injured on a ride in April, forcing the park to close for nearly a week. This combined with much heavier-than-usual rains in São Paulo last year resulted in attendance of 1,350,000: a decline of 350,000 visitors or 20.6 percent at Playcenter. Grupo Playcenter has since announced that it will close the 40-year-old park, which has become surrounded by a thriving São Paolo neighborhood, and that it is planning the development of a new children’s attraction nearby. As an aside, this is a relatively long-term example of an amusement park as an interim land use.
North of São Paolo, Hopi Hari had an estimated attendance of 1,850,000, down by 133,000 visitors or 6.7 percent, due primarily, it would seem, to the much heavier-than-usual rains in the area, which resulted in mudslides in São Paolo severe enough to destroy homes and even kill a number of residents.
Was weather also a factor in U.S. water parks’ flat numbers for 2011?
15.1m
U.S. water parks total visitors in 2011
Weather appears to have strongly affected attendance at U.S. water parks on the East Coast, resulting in effectively stable overall attendance at U.S. water parks in 2011 at 15.1 million. Most of the East Coast water parks were, unfortunately, negatively impacted by Hurricane Irene at the end of August — during their peak season and probably the busiest weekend of the year.
Coincidentally, AECOM is now working on a study to evaluate the statistical relationship between daily attendance versus forecast and actual weather at a major East Coast attraction. The interim results
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