Located in the town of Mogán, on the south coast of Gran Canaria, Hotel Riosol is a hotel complex with more than 40 years of existence. It rests on the slopes of a mountain of solidified lava, almost 200 metres above sea level. In 2018, it underwent rehabilitation and amongst other renovations, it replaced the...
Enrique Perlado Campos is the head of the Mundomar Foundation, a private non-profit foundation, with headquarters in the animal park of the same name, in Benidorm (Spain). The ultimate goal of this entity is to promote the care, conservation and preservation of nature and the environment, especially in the area of marine biology. We talked...
When making decisions, not only about travelling, but making investments in the tourism sector, it’s always advisable to know the sector trends in depth. On this occasion, the growth in the tourist demand for adventures has caught our attention. Firstly, and according to the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA), an adventure trip is considered to...
In 1956, the Farret family founded a small campsite next to the beach in the French town of Vias, in the region of Occitanie. Since then, after a change in the two-generations management, the 5-star Camping Le Club Farret has become a benchmark for the sector in France. As a collaborator, Amusement Logic has formed...
Amusement Logic: You’re a veteran in park management, how did you start in the sector? Pedro Codina: I started around 95/96 and it was a complete coincidence. I was in another sector and I had an acquaintance who was the sales director at Aqualand Torremolinos. There was a vacancy for a sales manager and he...
It’s a known fact that shopping centres around the world need to reinvent themselves to avoid falling sales. One of the main causes of the decrease in influx to large stores and therefore declining sales, is the migration of purchasers to online sales services. Experts say that this latter market, which continues to grow year...
In 2007, the Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta won the competition to design a centre destined for the promotion and development of culture in Saudi Arabia. Promoted by the world’s largest oil company, the Saudi Arabian company Aramco, the King Abdulaziz Center opened on December 1, 2017. A year later, Time magazine included it in the...
At the end of last year, the French tourist guide Petit Futé, with thirty years experience and more than 3 million users, chose the ten campsites in France with the best waterparks. In first place came Camping La Sirène’s 5-star waterpark, in the Occitanie town of Argeles-sur-Mer. Well, the campsite is the complete work of...
Village Market, in Nairobi, Kenya, is the first shopping centre in Africa to offer its customers a FEC (Family Entertainment Centre) with a playground for all ages. It is “Under The Sea”, a leisure area with two spaces, one for children from 2 to 12 years old, and another for children from 12 years and...
According to the report of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA), published at the end of 2019, the world market for such facilities is in good health, and its outlook for the next five Years are positive. But let’s look at the details that the data reveals: public attendance at amusement and...
