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Welcome to the premier destination for insights and research on the business of location-based entertainment.
Here, you’ll find a comprehensive collection of case studies, white papers, and in-depth research pieces that explore the industry’s history, current landscape, and business models.
Our aim is to provide the most authoritative and up-to-date repository of knowledge in the world.
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Build It and They Will Come: Las Vegas
This is the first in an exploratory series looking at destination development success stories. From the smallest FECs to the largest master planned cities, our business is the business of
Attraction & Theme Park Funding and Financing – A Primer
Due to their size, theme parks and attractions are typically financed through creative and diversified sources. When done right, attractions generate enormous economic impacts. Daily, they can become engines driving a
Managing Extremes: Seasonality & Peaking of a Theme Park
Variability causes chaos. And variability when it comes to the attraction world, is perhaps nowhere so present or prominent as it is when designing and operating a theme park. Compared
Attractions and Leisure Development Middle East (22-24 October 2018)
We’ve long maintained that Saudi Arabia is the next potential leisure market to monitor in the Middle East. With a population 3 times the size of the UAE, superior resource
Religious Travel (Focus: Saudi Arabia)
Attractions have the ability to draw tens of millions of people annually through their gates and completely change the economies of cities and states. In effect, our industry is the study
Theme Park Signatures
Besides the branding, what makes a Disney or Universal different from a Seaworld or Legoland? Are there true differences to speak of? Well, based on these charts, yes. This
The Business of Theme Parks (Part II): How Much Do They Cost? And Earn?
In the first part of this series, we evaluated the revenue side of theme park business models. In this series, we’ll continue our exploration of the economics of theme parks
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