crisis played against Crimean water parks - they are no longer able to raise prices. Therefore, the construction of many attractions frozen.
Newlyweds Dmitriy and Inna Pugachenkovy returned from a wedding trip to the Crimea with good impressions. According to Inna, they are pleased to have struck Aquaparks: few visitors do not need to push, as earlier in the queue at the hill, and the staff polite and attentive. In the previous two years was a lot of people. Most of the time needed to standing in lines, rather than entertainment, - said Ina. In addition, family Pugachenkovyh gladdened prices, which did not exceed last year's level.
market players admit that for the first time in the past few years, water attractions in Crimea have been experiencing difficulties with demand. The Director-General aquapark Banana Republic Yuri Rylkov reported that on the basis of June, attendance has fallen by 20-25% compared with the 2008th. And the gap continues to grow: in the first half of July, the number of visitors decreased by 50% compared to same period last year. Rylkov acknowledged that he hoped to repeat the experience of 1999, when people after the 1998 crisis on vacation in the Crimea because of a reduction in income prefer to travel abroad.
But hopes were dashed. Someone has found the opportunity to go abroad, but many stayed at home that played into the hands of the indoor aqua park, located in cities far from the sea. They increased attendance. However, according to art-managers Ternopil aquapark Limpopo Sergei Bezhnarya, visitors are trying to relax in the economy version, therefore, waive all associated services: massage, sauna, manicure, etc. To activate the fabricate of demand accounted for the different actions such as pay for ten hryvnia expensive - and visit the sauna for free.
Under such circumstances, private water parks have decided to raise the price as compared to last year at an average of 20%. Although the averaging in this case is suspended, because variation in prices on a huge country - from 60 to 300 hryvnia per day of entertainment. And fare depends on when you come to a water park: for example, in Kharkiv visit aquapark weekend will cost 120 hryvnia, and the week - only 60.
Entertainment in the Crimean water park is still costing the tourists an average of 200 hryvnia per day. Although attendance is falling, the management institutions are not yet going to lower rates.
Originally from Disneyland
Most water parks
first appeared in the 1950's to the tropical resorts of America, and Asia. They were buildings on the shores of ponds, which had a lot of water slides, pools, waterfalls. Near Disneyland U.S. primarily built aquapark city Waterworld. Operating experience has shown water parks: they have a small payback periods - one and a half to two years - a relatively modest investment one and a half to two million dollars and with an average duration of bathing season, four months. High profitability of the business has resulted in 90 water parks have already closed, were to appear en masse and in countries with temperate climates.
on the territory of the former Soviet Union the first small water park was opened in Vladivostok in the late 1980's. In Ukraine, a pioneer in the industry in the late 90's became the Odessa indoor water park Poseidon, and in 2001 near Simeiz took visitors to a water park open Blue Bay. Over time it became more and more parks, and they were built mostly in the Crimea. This is due to the fact that the construction of facilities open requires small investment - around U.S. $ 180-200 /sq. m excluding the value of the land. Over time, the developers drew attention to the city millionniki. Comedy more expensive type of indoor water parks away from the sea, where the cost of one square meter, excluding the cost of building and land at 1300-1500 dollars. This price is due to the fact that it is necessary to install a complex system of ventilation, and much more, - said director of the Association of Ukrainian Anna Sharlay water parks. According to her, the cost of rides depends on the name of slides, the quality and country of origin. For example, in Turkey Hill sell for 350 euro /sq. m, in Canada (higher quality) - from 600 USD /sq. m (ie, approximately 420 Euro). But in Ukraine because of the VAT, customs duties and transportation of their price increases by 40%.
Developers long ago calculated that the future - an integrated entertainment center, where seasonality is not an obstacle. Director of the Kharkov aquapark Jungle Alina Tobuh noted that half of the income yielded water attractions, and the remaining 50% - restaurants, bars, massage and other related services. As the operators say the market, pay-back period of indoor water parks to the crisis was not less than seven years, but now it has increased to ten.
Parks will be more
Calculate the exact number of Ukrainian water parks are very difficult. This was primarily due to a lack in our country, a clear definition of water park. In the classic sense, it involves not only the existence of different slides and pools, and park zone. In Ukraine, many water park green zone does not exist. Aquapark can call and just a few hills on the shore, and a pool with any one attraction. According to Anna Sharlay, now there are 12 fully-formed water parks.
The number of projects is constantly increasing. In Kiev alone, the Council approved the concept of urban development projects dozen water parks, but none of them have not yet been built. This is due to several reasons. First, the construction of the aqua-park in the city - a technically complex process, which not everyone can handle the domestic developer. Secondly, water parks are sometimes the only plausible excuse for the high-water area near the edge. This fate befell the first draft of Kiev aquapark, he should appear near the lake Telbin. Under the project, in addition to a water amusement to be even build a house and a hotel. But then customers of the project of Water abandoned buildings aquapark, deciding that the elite residential complex interesting: to build and easier, and less technical complexity, and higher profitability.
Similarly, the destiny of a aquaparks Obolon and Bereznyaki. In addition, played a role, and the crisis. Projects in Borispol and metropolitan Hidropark (project developer company XXI Century) stalled due to funding problems. Scale Litvinovka Entertainment, which includes a water park, too, had not yet started to build. The latter aquapark in Dnieper embankment gradsovetom was approved in January. There, in one area it is to combine a business center, water park, recreation park and yacht club. In this short time-frame construction - two to three years. Construction of another aquapark (at the Kharkov array), the company Triumph Media Group promises to finish in 2011. Water park attractions will be open, and its area will be ten thousand square meters, - said director Andrew Shpyg.
in Ukraine as a whole the number of water parks is growing. Over the past year, water attractions have opened in most cities nekurortnyh as Vinnitsa and Lugansk. Construction works, the largest water park in the country (5.7 ha) in Donetsk. In Lugansk promised to build another complex with water attractions. However, because of funding problems that have arisen during the economic crisis that halted construction of an aquapark in Genichesk, Odessa and Poseidon has ceased to work.
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Aquapark nightmare! Tiles slippery, all fall down. When I broke the baby's head. The hill with the community, one boy broke smelting, the other on the hill broke a screw on the bottom of the elbow basin. In the water, too much chlorine. Of the soul no water flows, and boiling water. medical care for burns do not have. We offer to buy medicines at the pharmacy water park, where they are at seven times the price - share their impressions on the online forum visitors an aqua-park on the southern coast of Crimea. And these entries mass. The main complaint - slippery floors, lack of skilled medical care and the low professional level of employees. In the foreign water park staff is certified to conduct rescue operations and possess skills in first aid. We often instructors - it is a penny during the holidays students. In addition, accident insurance practice, not all Ukrainian water parks, so the question of compensation for the material obtained at a water amusement injury depends largely on the position of the administration. This is due to a lack of standards that would govern the operation of water parks.
Recently, this problem
interested people's deputies of Ukraine Vasily Petevka and Oksana Bilozir and sent to Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's parliamentary inquiry on the adoption of urgent measures for the development and adoption of state standards governing the construction and operation of such establishments. The request indicates that some new water park is used equipment that has been in use in other countries, and it endangers the safety recreational Ukrainians. Some are substandard water park slides, all sypletsya. People are injured, and the negative variance of sarafan radio. We thus make themselves antireklamu, - complains about on such a Rylkov.
future - for the closed parks
market players expect that next year the demand level off. This means that interest will rise again to open the aquapark. One of the businessmen gave an optimistic forecast of the industry. He built it on the assumption that the Ukrainians soskuchatsya to do with a full coil and so next year attendance water parks will rise by 15-20%. With the stabilization of the economy, this scenario is possible. But in the long term due to fashion trends, and drawn to a healthy lifestyle especially the attendance will increase urban indoor water parks. At least for the reason that it can go a whole year, and the competitive position of the Crimea as the recreation area each year are all weaker.
facts about water parks
1. Throughout the world there are more than 1,700 water parks.
2. Most water parks - about a hundred - is in the United States. According to the World Association of water parks (World Waterpark Association), each year they attend more than 70 million people.
3. is considered the capital city of water parks in Wisconsin Dellz United States, which only covered 18 establishments. In the same town in America are the largest water parks in the open air and indoors - Noah's Ark ( Noah's Ark) and the Kalahari Resort ( Resort Kalahari).
4. The largest water park in the world - Ocean Dome in Sigaye (on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) - can accommodate up to ten thousand people. He entered in the Guinness Book of Records.
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