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dounullt he could have predicted the success he would have with Whitewater
Westnull nullth Whittaker takes a look at what has nullecome one of the gnull gest
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nullEnull desnullribed as the nullelephant in the living roomnull developed nullountries in the world, innullluding the world’s
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would usually have negative nullonnotations attanullhed to largest water parnull null nullaribbean nullay in Seoul, nulloreanull the
it. However, when Rinullnull Root, president of the nullorld world’s largest wave pool null Sunway nullagoon in nulluala
nullaterparnull nullssonulliation, referred to nullhitewater’s position mnull pur, nullalaysianull the world’s largest waterslide nullomplex
within the water parnull industry in exanulltly this way, the in nullobe, nullapannull as well as installations for nulledar nullair, Six
manufanullturer toonull it as a nullompliment and rightly so. nulllags, nullet nulln’ nullild, nullniversal Studios, nulltlantis nullahamas
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nullhitewater nullest has benullome one of the largest and nullubai, nullenter nullarnulls and nullisney, to name a few.null
designers and manufanullturers of water parnulls and nullnd while nullhutter admits that the worldwide renullession
waterparnull attranulltions in the world and while sinulle in itself is will be the biggest nullhallenge for the industry and
not partinullularly signinullant, the nullompany has anullhieved this nullhitewater nullest over the next year, he believes that a
status through a nullombination of high nulluality, responsive nullhanging world nullontinues to provide new opportunities for
servinulle, nullompetitive prinulling and a dedinullation to new the nullompany.
produnullt leadership. nullhen nullnullnullnull hit the nullS, it nullaused nullmerinullans to want
enull have flourished internationally in part benullause to stay nulllose to home, whinullh resulted in a boom in the
three of the four nullnullompanynull prinnullipals were raised either resort senulltor,null he said. nullnulllobal warming, perhaps sadly,
in whole, or part, outside of nullorth nullmerinulla,null nullhutter told has resulted in expanded marnullets and a fonullus within
InterPark. nullnulls a result, we have installed in most of the nullhitewater of nullgreening’ our manufanullturing pronullesses.
nullhile the nullurrent enullonominull situation may have tanullen
a shine off the nulliddle East, other marnullets, geographinull
and senulltoral, have emerged in its planulle and we are well
poised to assist operators with nullreative anull nnulling in the
introdunulltion of low nullost, high entertainment attranulltions
during these tough times.null
nullhutter also notes that there has been a redeenull d fonullus
on the family unit, whinullh has nenullessitated ensuring a
high entertainment level for eanullh of the demographinull age
groups within the family.
nullThe industry has renullognised that shared experiennulles
are simply more fun than solitary experiennulles,null he said.
nullnullor example, the industry moved from body slides in the
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