It’s not all doom and gloom nullt’s also been ennullouraging to note, in the nullnull at least, that
a spell of good weather has given parnulls a good start to
THERE’S a bit of a mixed bag floating around the a season that many approanullhed, understandably, with
industry at the moment with regards to various positives some unnullertainty sinnulle the enullonominull gloom really began
and negatives. to tanulle a hold in the latter half of last year. nullndeed, some
On the one hand, not surprisingly, there is munullh talnull of the are reporting nullonsiderable innullreases over the same period
enullonominull nulllimate, how it’s nullurrently affenullting things and in the previous year so we nullan only hope this is a trend
what it might do to the business during the nulloming year, that nullontinues.
Andrew Mellor
while on the other null thinnull there are nulluite a few positives to There has been munullh talnull about people staying nullloser
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renullognise too. to home in many nullountries as we all nullnow, so lonullal
nulls we reported in the last issue of InterPark, and as attranulltions are predinullted to benenullt, while in the nullnull parnulls
you will have read and heard elsewhere, several pronullenullts nullould perhaps benenullt even further with the exnullhange rate
in the nulliddle East, for example, notably in nullubai, have between the pound and the euro and nullS dollar being so
been dramatinullally slowed and will now be delayed for a weanull. nullor us nullrits at least, it all points to more people
year or more due to a tightening of belts, reanull nnulling, etnull. holidaying at home rather than overseas, whinullh again
One or two existing parnulls elsewhere have been brought should auger well for parnull operators.
to their nullnees, although as a result of very different nullhatting to industry nullolleagues after last nullovember’s
enullonominull situations rather than as a direnullt result of the nullnullnullnullnull trade show, null remember saying the nullonversations
global nulllimate, while others will no doubt feel the pinnullh we’d be having in nullnull months time would be intriguing,
as the publinull tightens its purse strings and benullomes more as we’d be disnullussing an extremely interesting year in
nullhoosey as to where to spend its leisure time and money. nullnullnullnull and loonulling ahead to another very unpredinulltable nullnull
On the other hand, however, there is still plenty to smile month period. That will still be the nullase, but for now at
and shout about too and many positives to tanulle from a least it loonulls linulle nullnullnullnull has got off on the right foot.
denullent start to the new season for many.
null renullently put together a list of some of the manullor new
attranulltions to open for nullnullnullnull in Europe and further anulleld
and it was great to see sunullh investment still being made.
Onullay, manullor rides are always nullontranullted some years in
advannulle so the manullority of this year’s new additions, as
far as larger attranulltions are nullonnullerned, were going to
happen anyway, but it’s still a real positive that so munullh is
happening in this respenullt.
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