Cover Story Jumping at the chance
With the trampoline market demonstrating enormous and rapid growth, video capture specialist Tape My Day explored ways to bring its automated system, which provides a detailed recording of individual customers’ days out, to the booming sector. Business development manager, Luciano Pessina, explains how the firm linked up with specialist providers to create a bespoke system specifically designed with owners, operators and customers in mind….
add meaningfully to this exciting new outlet for fun and fitness, Tape My Day decided to get in touch with several of the industry leading franchises, as well as starters or experienced entrepreneurs that decided to bounce their way to greater heights. Many more visits followed, as well as detailed conversations about the wants and needs of the business. It was during this explorative phase that we met the CEO of Big Airbag, a provider of superior quality and customisable airbags based in the Netherlands. Big Airbag had moved its focus to outfitting Trampoline Parks worldwide with their product, citing increased impact experience, durability and the improved hygiene of their foam pit replacement as unique selling points. It became obvious that a partnership made sense, given their refreshing outlook on what is happening in the industry and our unique solution. In the same period, we also got acquainted with SiDijk, a Dutch park manufacturer that had created some of the most impressive and best looking trampoline parks our team had visited. During several meetings, the trio came up with a mutually beneficial model where SiDijk, Big Airbag and Tape My Day would join forces to deliver outstanding one-stop-shop trampoline park solutions. Next, the Tape My Day R&D team sat down and got to thinking, “what makes a best in class product that suits the
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uring one of our roadshows in the Netherlands, in spring last year, Tape My Day had the opportunity to visit several trampoline parks.
Some were relatively new, others had been around for a few years. What struck us most was just how booming these parks were; something we had read about in media, but had not yet had a chance to experience up close. The parks were full, kids and teenagers were enjoying themselves performing gravity defying acrobatics and the owners were talking about their expansion plans. They had to, because in most cases business was simply too much to keep up with. In recent times, trampoline parks have been a tremendous hit, with a new location somewhere around the globe opening almost weekly. To see how we could
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www.globalamusementsandplay.com June/July 2017
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