WORLD NEWS
Australian Waterpark Expects One Million Visitors A Year
Australia has welcomed its first major new waterpark since 1991, following the opening of the long-awaited Wet’n’Wild attraction in Sydney.
Fluidra Holds Its Biggest International Convention
In January, Fluidra held its biggest meeting between the Group’s managers and sales directors for a week full of workshops, seminars on sales techniques and displays of new p roducts.
Under the slogan ‘Invictus 2014’, the convention in Sitges (Barcelona) brought together around 350 managers and sales executives from 40 countries. Fluidra’s top managers met to discuss the company’s business strategy and share their experiences, as well as to broaden their knowledge about its leading brands’ innovative products and to learn new techniques for managing their client portfolios.
In a statement, Eloi Planes, Fluidra’s CEO, explained that: “The convention has been a great success. The
combination of our own R&D, our factories, and our strong position in logistics and sales around the world means that we cannot fail to give best service and best training to our professional clients. We’re starting 2014 with a lot of energy and enthusiasm!”
The 25 workshops on products were divided into groups with specific programmes taught by 17 specialised in-house trainers. The exhibition held a total of 29 stands displaying products of manufacturers from both inside and outside the Fluidra Group. The attendees greatly appreciated the direct contact between manufacturers and the members of Fluidra’s sales network.
National Swimming Pool Foundation® Expands Global Efforts The National Swimming Pool Foundation®
(NSPF)
will relocate Silvia Uribe, International Business Manager, to Europe from the US office in Colorado Springs to better support mission focused training around the world. Pool and spa professionals from over 81 countries have taken NSPF®
training
courses. At this time, NSPF has more than 120 instructors outside the United States who teach with NSPF materials. “We are honored that professionals across the planet recognise and request NSPF
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training materials to help them better protect children, parents, employees, and facilities. It makes sense to have a key executive with unique cultural, educational, and pool and spa experience like Silvia working and living
closer to those we serve,” said Thomas M. Lachocki, Ph.D, CEO of the non-profit National Swimming Pool Foundation. “This relocation represents NSPF’s commitment to continue providing top quality support to our international partners, who trust our world-leading
educational courses for operators, service companies, and health officials,” explained Ms Uribe. “We help them provide healthier and safer pools which translates into having pools open for families to enjoy.” The National Swimming Pool Foundation recently launched five international websites to better serve pool and spa professionals in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Panamá. In 2008, NSPF developed its first Spanish website, the non-profit’s first step to bringing customised education products and programmes with improved comprehension to a broader world audience.
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The new facility includes two leading attractions supplied by specialists WhiteWater and the park hopes to attract around one million visitors each year. The site features a world-first Whizzard Twist attraction, which takes eight mat-racer aquatubes and twists them around each other with riders in a race to reach the finish line. This is accompanied by an AquaLoops attraction offering riders the chance to experience a side-by- side ride.
The park also features another complex by WhiteWater, which includes rides such as Australia’s first Rattler ride named the Typhoon and four
MasterBlaster experiences. Other leading attractions at the facility include the 360Rush, which is based six-storeys into the air and gives swimmers the chance to race each other in two 360 degree-looping waterslides and the Wet’n’Wild T5 ride which is based on a category 5 tornado and sees swimmers take on 180 metres of darkness as they head towards a drop of 15 metres (into the T5’s core).
Clearly a welcome attraction with Sydney residents, Wet’n’Wild sold more than 160,000 season passes, worth AUS$12.5m in revenue, before its opening.
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