They fired the attendance during the summer

Meanwhile figures from Disneyland Resort Paris, the most visited amusement parks in France, the balance of the summer 2010 is already good, or even, for some, excellent across the sector. Indeed, over two-thirds of the members of the national Union of animal and cultural leisure (Snelac) spaces, brings 134 sites in operation, recorded an increase in their sales in a range between 0 and 5 in July-August, according to the latest survey of situation of the organization professional, available since yesterday.

A beautiful performance, according to its General delegate, Sophie Huberson: "the trend is slightly lower than that of 2009, but the previous summer had been exceptional," explains, recalling that the summer can represent up to 75 of the annual activity of the parks.

In addition, the attendance in August has been affected by low temperatures on a good part of the France, this weather effect having been particularly tangible in the Northeast, where half of the sites saw their sales remain slack this summer. "We've come to the level of 2008, which was already good," it confirms to the Compagnie des Alpes (CDA), French and European heavyweight with, inter alia, Asterix, Walibi, Grévin parks Park or the sea of sand. President of the Snelac, but responsible first of Pal, a Zoo and animal park located in combine it, Arnaud Bennet sharing this observation: "2009 was for the Pal an abnormally strong year, various favourable factors, with a jump of 20 attendance, for a total of 514.000 visitors." Our 2010 goal was to lie between this level and the 2008 visitors 438.000. "We are in the nails, with a forecast between 470.000 and 480 entries", he says.

Vitality of the sector

The winners of 2010 include also the Futuroscope Park oriented technologies of the image located in the Vienne, of having produced his most beautiful summer for 10 years, is moving towards a new attendance record, with a total annual nearby 1.8 million entries (see below).

Vulcania, the site on the theme of the volcanoes near Clermont-Ferrand, also has the wind in its sails, for the fourth year in a row, an increase in the number of visitors in rollup since opening: 4 at the end of August, i.e. 285.000 entries. What feed the optimism of his leadership for the whole of the year

According to professionals, various elements contribute to the vitality of the sector. The first of them, it is investment effort, which allows to retain the customer.

Electronic ticketing

It can also lead to the emergence of a local tourism and development of hotel activity, with the increase in the duration of visit. In parallel, the teams become more pointed on the commercial and marketing. Unit recipe management develops, especially Internet and electronic ticketing begin to school. For example, after the electronic ticket introduced in 2009, implementing automatic terminals is the study to the Pal.

In this virtuous context, the return of foreign tourists this year is sort of the icing on the cake. They fired the attendance during the summer. This is the case for Vulcania, where their number increased by 9, to represent 10 of the 160,000 visitors in total.