Analysts expect a compound annual growth rate of 10.16% over the next four years in the amusement and theme park industry. American continues to lead the global market and is expect to dominate the next four years as well. The report from ReportsNReports Analysts says that even though the target market of children ages...
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It’s the pool made famous by Esther Williams and it helped put Cypress Gardens on the map. Now it, and the adjacent Oriental Gardens, is back open and viewable by guests of LEGOLAND Florida, which now resides on the property that started its life as Cypress Gardens. It’s definitely nice to see the care...
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Had an opportunity to visit SeaWorld about a week ago and took a few moments to catch up with the progress on Antarctica: Empire of the Penguin at SeaWorld Florida. It’s set to open May 24th and all indications are that it will give any attraction in Orlando a run for its money in...
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LEGOLAND Florida has been working on its largest expansion since opening in 2011. There’s been a lot of speculation about what would be coming there. Some plans that were submitted to the county indicated it would be a clone of the LEGOLAND California Pirates land. That wouldn’t be bad, but LEGOLAND Florida refused to...
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Although the writing on this visual history blog post is in Cyrillic, these color photos are unmistakably the 1939 World’s Fair. The 1939–40 New York World’s Fair, was held at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, NY. At 1,216 acres it was the second largest American world’s fair of all time. Only the St. Louis’s...
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Has anyone counted the number of projects announced for Dubai that never came to fruition? In 2009 that over-investment nearly drove the emirate into bankruptcy. The nation state is still paying off billions in debt from that debacle, but it has already announced a huge expansion of its retail project and a brand new...
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In late November a young girl was feeding Dolphins at SeaWorld Orlando’s Dolphin Cove exhibit when she was bit on the hand by the dolphin she had been feeding. A scary moment for the family, no doubt. This is not the first incident of this sort, but it is very rare, happening only once...
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