amusement parks
R. Lauron (Parc Astérix): "Our capabilities will take a leap..."
How is Parc Astérix's MICE activity characterised? Rodolphe Lauron - Parc Astérix hosts an average of 200 events per year, from ten people to a thousand participants. If we dropped to around 150 operations in 2025, their size increased, mobilising more rooms and more suites, with an impact…
PortAventura Business & Events : Immersive and sustainable MICE, made in...
PortAventura Business & Events' MICE offering, in terms of both products and services, stands out for its versatility and adaptability. The aim is to satisfy all the requirements of event organisers through a 360° service that can be fully customised. The "All in One" concept is based on...
La Mer de Sable, the doyen of amusement parks, conquering...
Created by the actor Jean Richard in 1963 in the heart of the Ermenonville forest in the Oise department, the Mer de Sable was the first leisure park in France, famous for its giant dune which gave rise to its Wild West-inspired setting. Sixty years on, the site is developing an events business following the launch of the...
PortAventura Business & Events: infrastructure and expertise to serve...
PortAventura Business & Events offers a 360° service that can be fully customised to meet any requirement. As part of the "all in one" concept, the structure has a large Convention Centre with 24 multifunctional rooms covering an area of 20,000 m². PortAventura also has...
Futuroscope goes green with Ecolodgee
Following last year's inauguration of Station Cosmos, a 4-star hotel with 76 rooms on the theme of space, this week Futuroscope is opening Ecolodgee. This unclassified but 3* establishment of 120 ultra-cosy wooden lodges - but without air conditioning or TV! - It required the creation of a landscaped park, islands...
MICE: Europa Park can thank the SNCF
Europa Park will be able to boost its MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Events) business thanks to the new Inoui TGV stop at Ringsheim/Europa Park station from 11 December onwards on the Paris-Fribourg-en-Brisgau service, in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. This means that the theme park will be 2 hours 37 minutes from Paris-Est, 2 hours 19 minutes from...
Space hotel and Hyperloop restaurant for an ambitious Futuroscope
In a few hours' time, Thomas Pesquet will take part in the Alpha mission and take command of the International Space Station (ISS): a first for a Frenchman, and an experience that ordinary mortals will never get close to. To compensate, Futuroscope has decided to launch a new hotel concept. The "Station Cosmos...
Futuroscope goes from theme park to resort
Updated 16 October It's probably not a good time for major projects. And yet Futuroscope has just unveiled a vast development plan with the ambition of creating a real resort covering more than 22 hectares, and with an environmental focus to boot. Supported by all the partners - Compagnie des Alpes, the...
Grand Siècle conferences at the Puy du Fou
Is Le Puy du Fou a new player in major professional events? Certainly not, since the venue already hosts almost 200 events a year. "We intend to double this figure in the future," says Thomas Guitet, director of Puy du Fou Congrès. Because, with the opening of a real convention centre, the theme park launched in 1978 by...
Convention centre, hotels: the Puy du Fou invests in...
52 million euros: this is the record amount of investment planned by the Puy du Fou for 2020. This financial windfall is aimed in particular at attracting corporate customers, by equipping itself with new ad hoc infrastructures. For example, a convention centre will be built on the Vendée site. Called the Théâtre Molière,...
Amusement parks: a firework display of emotions
"Leisure parks came into being at a time when we realised that a change of scenery could be found close by; that it's not about distance, but about a break. Our lives are made up of many small breaks. The challenge today is to unplug. Hence the success of leisure and theme parks",...
Amusement parks: a great escape for local incentives
Business at Disneyland This is a concept that appeals to companies, particularly in times of crisis, when they prefer less remote destinations for organising seminars or rewarding their staff. The most obvious example is Disneyland Resort Paris, which alone accounts for almost 73 % of the sales of the top 70 parks in France.
Leisure park The boom in leisure parks
"Over the last fifteen years, the number of visitors to leisure parks has risen spectacularly, from 3 million a year to almost 70 million in 2006. That's a turnover of around two billion euros!", explains Sophie Huberson, General Secretary of Snelac, the national union of leisure parks,...
