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Park World Excellence Awards
Meet the judges
With the 30 September deadline date for the Park World Excellence Awards nearly upon us, this year’s event looks set to be as exciting as ever.
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aunched in 2018, The Park World Excellence Awards is a leading annual awards scheme designed to recognise
remarkable operators in the EMEA region and the outstanding manufacturers, suppliers and entertainment specialists that worked with them to bring the yearʼs top experiences to life. 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. 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.
The 2021 Park World Excellence Awards judges are….
ALEATHA EZRA Aleatha is the director of park member development for the World Waterpark Association, a position she has held since late 2005. She works closely with waterpark members,
including outdoor, indoor, hotel resort and public sector park owners, developers and operators. She is also the editor of all WWA publications and oversees the Associationʼs marketing campaigns.
JULIAN TSCHECH Julianʼs fascination for water attractions began as a small child. He and his brother created the YouTube channel TUBERIDES and a website about water slides (https://
www.tuberides.de) back in 2009 and what started as as a “fun project”, soon began to grow
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as TUBERIDES became became a worldwide pioneer in filming water slides. Since then, Julian and his brother have visited more than 600 water parks and aquatic facilities all around the globe and experienced almost 3,000 slides of all shapes and types. Their videos have been watched more than one
billion times and more than one million people have subscribed to their channel. “Few have tried more slides than us,” says Julian, adding that no other YouTube channel offers videos of more slides in the United States or Australia. Since 2014, Julian has also been working as
a freelance editor for a leisure trade magazine and he and his brother regularly produce video content for water parks and swimming pools.
EMMANUAL MONGON Each year, more than 40 million people visit leisure sites which Emmanuel Mongon contributed to master plan, design, develop or reengineer. Emmanuel was the first director, design and
development at Parc Astérix, which became the leading theme park in France. His references include internationally acclaimed theme parks, entertainment centres, integrated resorts, heritage sites, and spiritual sites. IAAPA asked him in 2005 to be the founding chairman of its first European trade show, EAS, which became in just three years the leading industry gathering in Europe.
FRANÇOIS MAYNÉ After completing a university degree in marketing, François created his own business and became the editor of NewsParcs, an online news magazine dedicated to the
professionals of the amusement park industry. After a successful three-year run, he chose to focus on another business: OOPARC, an online
guidebook about theme parks around Europe. François also works as a freelance author for one of the major trade publications covering the attractions industry.
NICOLE ROJO
As representative of the European Coaster Club (EEC) for Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and an attraction industry blogger, Nicole travels the globe in search of the industryʼs best attractions and
water parks. As a representative of the ECC, Nicole is involved in promoting the industry to both its members and the mainstream media, as well as organising events at theme parks. Nicoleʼs blog is read by a worldwide audience, covering reviews of parks and news update on new attractions. Nicole is ranked in the Top 10 women for having ridden the most rollercoasters, over 1900.
MARCUS GAINES Marcus, owner of Ride and Park Media, has been writing about theme parks and rides for over 15 years for trade and mainstream publications. Focused on the promotion of
the attraction industry, he typically spends at least 30 days a year in theme parks shooting dynamic marketing films, writing features and consulting on future developments.
MAREK PISARSKI An established author in the Polish leisure sphere and trailblazing consultant in the edutainment sector, Marekʼs professional activities as the owner of PAIT Consulting,and
Marek Pisarski Imagineering, include providing IAAPA EXPO EUROPE EDITION 23
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