indoor theme parks
World’s Top 30 Indoor Entertainment Centers: Theme Parks Focus on Education and Entertainment Part 2
Jeff Coy | July 11, 2013
A Profile of the World's Top 30 Largest Indoor Entertainment Centers By Jeff Coy, ISHC Ten (10) of the world's top 30 largest indoor entertainment centers are focused on education mixed with entertainment, a concept now called edutainment, while 9 are focused on providing a themed experience with characters such as Iron Man and Spider Man. Six centers specialize in providing amusements & thrill rides and 3 feature high-tech games and motion simulators. Large indoor theme parks, indoor amusement parks and family entertainment centers are a relatively new phenomenon. No one had studied indoor entertainment facilities as a special grou...
World’s Top 30 Indoor Entertainment Centers: Major Theme Parks Are Going Indoors, Part 1
JLC Hospitality Consulting | July 11, 2013
Anchored by Shopping Malls, Hotels, Waterparks & Casinos; KidZania is fastest-growing in edutainment By Jeff Coy, ISHC When you think about Six Flags, Sea World or Cedar Fair, it is typically an outdoor experience during summer when kids are out of school. But now, major theme parks and amusement parks are going indoors --- where they can attract visitors 365 days a year and not worry about poor weather wiping out profits. Indoor theme parks are not new, but there is a surge of new development. The first large-scale indoor amusement park, Galaxyland, built in 1985, was a giant success with 400,000 sf of amusements and thrill rides i...
