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Theme Park Supplier's News of the Week #12 Bolliger Mabillard, MAURER Rides, ETF Ride Systems, Lo-...
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More than 3 million visitors for PortAventura Aquatic

Park in 10 years

Update : 15:27 Published by François Mayné the 20 August 2012, Corporate.
In 2002, seven years after its inauguration, PortAventura officially passed from the status of a theme park to the one of a resort with the opening of two on-site hotels and one of the largest waterparks in Spain: Costa Caribe. Now known as PortAventura Aquatic Park, it has just celebrated its tenth anniversary and welcomed more than 3 million of visitors!

Initially developed by Forrec on behalf of Universal Parks & Resorts (which owned the resort at that time before selling its shares to the Caixa bank in 2004), PortAventura Aquatic Park is strategically located a few steps from the main entrance of PortAventura and now covers an area of 34 hectares (approx 84 acres).

PortAventura passed from a theme park to a full resort with the opening in 2002 of 2 hotels and a water parkIt covers today about 34 hectares and offers a dozen of water rides...... including 7 water slides, 2 children water playground, a wave pool or a lazy river

With a theming inspired by the Caribbean islands, it offers to visitors a dozen of water rides divided between an indoor and an outdoor zone. Attractions include 7 water slides manufactured by ProSlide (including a MAMMOTH™ with 5-persons rafts), 2 water playgrounds for children delivered by WhiteWater (AquaPlay ™ series), a large wave pool, a lazy river covering both zones, a solarium, several jacuzzis and swimming pools, a shop and 6 snacks / restaurants.

PortAventura Aquatic Park is open on average during 3 and a half months in the year (there will be 109 days of operations in 2012) and, as for the theme park, is mostly visited by Spanish (70% of the global attendance) followed by foreign tourists, in which are headed the French and the Russians! All guests staying in one of the four on-site hotels automatically have access to the water park in their package while daily visitors can also buy seperate ticket or a combo ticket with PortAventura.

A expansion plan is currently under study by both Investindustrial and Caixa bank

An expansion project is in the works for several years, but has been delayed due to the difficulties encountered by PortAventura at the beginning of the financial crisis. Additional space of thirty hectares is indeed available for future developments on the current parking lot.

PortAventura Resort is one of the largest attractions resorts in Europe with more than 3.5 million visitors these past years. For this season, it has invested more than €25 million (approx $30.7 million) for the opening of Shambhala, Europe’s tallest roller coaster (see our article below). The company is currently owned by the investor group Investindustrial associated with Caixa.
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Europa-Park
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Europa-Park chooses popular French IP to create an indoor themed area including MACK Rides coaster read more

This is a first in the history of Europa-Park. The German theme park, owned by the Mack family since 1975, has chosen to work with an intellectual...

NEW | Europa-Park - Published on June 11, 2013
Europa-Park: A family success story that's all about passion! read more

“Managing a theme park means writing a story, respecting a tradition and constantly questioning oneself, looking for new ideas and ways to i...

FEATURE | Europa-Park - Published on March 15, 2013
Themed Entertainment Association to hold its 10th TEA Summit and Thea Awards Gala April 4-6 read more

The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), an international organization that represents the interests of more than 7,500 members working in...

EVENT | Europa-Park - Published on March 6, 2013
New attendance record for Europa-Park in 2012 read more

The German theme park Europa-Park has surpassed in 2012 the 4.5 million visitors for the first time, confirming its position as the first seasonal park in the world. This outcome is therefore highly satisfactory for the Mack...

CORPORATE | Europa-Park - Published on January 9, 2013
Europa-Park purchases a hundred-year old carousel read more

The German theme park Europa-Park has just purchased a carousel-lounge of 1909 from Ecomusée d'Alsace, a museum located in Ungersheim in North-East of France. The latter had declared its intention to separate from this carousel-lounge ...

NEW | Europa-Park - Published on April 29, 2012
WODAN Timburcoaster - Interview with Clair Hain Jr. President of Great Coasters International read more

During our coverage of the WODAN Timburcoaster media event at Europa-Park (Rust, Germany), we had the opportunity to meet Clair Hain Jr, President...

FEATURE | Europa-Park - Published on April 19, 2012
Europa-Park opens WODAN Timburcoaster - Interview with Roland Mack read more

Nearly 400 members of the press and special guests - including the racing driver Ralf Schumacher and Miss Germany 2012 - were invited last Wednesday...

NEW | Europa-Park - Published on April 2, 2012
Europa Park welcomed more than 4 million visitors in 2011 and prepares 2012 read more

Europa-Park stated that its 37th season has been once again a great success with an attendance exceeding well over four million visitors in...

NEW | Europa-Park - Published on January 11, 2012
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