Leisure parks restart with a bang

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“Tornado hunters”, the new hair-raising attraction at Futuroscope. WILLIAM SOUVANT/AFP

Amusement parks were full this summer.

The “Covid” page is turned in leisure parks. No longer afraid of the crowds, visitors came back in force this summer. “After two difficult years, the return of many families from April reassured us”, launches Arnaud Bennet, president of the National Union of Leisure, Attraction and Cultural Spaces (Snelac) and patron of Pal, a park in the Allier. Attendance is back to at least 2019 levels at most venues. It is record high in water parks and leisure parks such as Futuroscope, Pal, Asterix, Nigloland… Paradoxically, inflation has favored admissions. Households on a tight budget have thus offered themselves an outing, failing to go further and longer on vacation.

Disneyland Paris, arch leader in France and Europe, is taking full advantage of the festivities of its thirtieth anniversary. Its teams were able to boost the recovery, inaugurating on July 20 a brand new universe, Marvel Avengers Campus. From June…

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