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Park World Excellence Awards
Park World Excellence Awards welcomes three new judges for 2021
Park World editor, Becci Knowles, reports. L
Park World editor, Becci Knowles, judge François Mayné and guests grab a picture courtesy of Digital Centre at 2019 event. Digital Centre is sponsoring the Park World Excellence Awards for the third year running.
aunched in 2018 by Park World publisher, Datateam Business Media the Park World Excellence has quickly established itself a leading awards scheme for the EMEA attractions industry. Key to this is the
stringent judging process, in which an independent panel of industry experts spends considerable time assessing each and every entry and nominee against criteria of ʻExcellenceʼ. Since its inception, the Park World Excellence Awards has garnered huge respect for its identification and celebration of best in class entertainment destinations, projects, products and people. Commenting on the crucial role the Excellence Awards judges play in making this happen, event director, Paul Ryder says “a huge amount of work goes on behind the scenes to ensure first that the categories are a true reflection of the industry and second, that from the hundreds of entrants and nominees received the right choices are made. We are incredibly proud of, and thankful to our judging panel for this and I am delighted to announce that we have extended this already stellar line-up by a further three industry experts for 2021. Evelyne Villame, president, SPACE; Vincent Philippe, creator, observer, editor, Funfaircity and Julian Tschech, founder of TUBERIDES are very welcome additions to the team.”
Evelyne Villame Evelyne led the marketing strategy, brand and product development for the Grévin Group, now Companie des Alpesfor over 20 years. In 2009, she plunged into the “small
is beautiful” business and started an FEC company La Boîte aux Enfants, with fellow partner Gaëtan Le Jariel. La Boite aux Enfants is now a chain of 13 family entertainment centres in France, six of them (brand Gulli Parc) developed in partnership with the leading French kids TV channel. Since 2019, Evelyne has been president of
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SPACE, the French association for indoor leisure. Covering all types of activities - CEC, Escape Room, Trampoline, Bowling, Laser Game, VR/ Simulation –it has 400 members (25% of total facilities in France). A member of IAAPA for many years, Evelyne previously served IAAPAʼs Education Committee and as a member of the Themed Entertainment Associationʼs European Board at one time. Commenting on her appointment as a judge
and what she will be looking for from this yearʼs entrants and nominees, Evelyn says: “I am always interested in new things, so if I
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