Financial Facts

Amount of attractions

There are more than 300 parks in Europe with overall attendance of 150 million visitors and revenues of 10 billion Euros

Europes amusement park industry generated around 4.9billion euro over all, which contributed almost 10 billion euro to the European economy.

The economic impact is even bigger in the United States of America. All the 30,000 attractions together, were responsible for the nationwide economic impact of 206 billion euros.

Building a theme park attraction

Building a theme park is extremely expensive. Even small attractions at funfairs cost around 2,000,000€.

Those costs are nothing in contrast to the costs of huge rollercoasters. The 'Silver Star' (Europa Park Germany), is the fastest and highest rollercoaster of Germany. It cost 14,000,000€ and is defenitly not the most expensive one.

Giants as 'The Smiler' cost already 25,000,000€, the rollercoaster located in Alton (Britain) has 14 Loopings.

The most popular attraction of Phantasialand, which is the 'Black Mamba' cost 22,000,000€. Even the setting around the rollercoaster cost 11,000,000€.

In general, one can say: the higher and faster the attraction is, the more expensive it gets. Additionales as tunnel, gorges and fire/ water/ light effects increase the costs a lot.

Did you know?

Travel costs for roller coaster are extremely high as well. The travel costs for wooden roller coaster are the highest. A simple ride in it would cost at least 30€ to be profitable. For this reason, they are just located in huge theme parks nowadays.

The most expensive attraction worldwide

The 'Test Track' (Florida) is awarded with the title of being the most expensive attraction in the world.

As a visitor one can be a test driver of General Motors (Chevrolet). Different test situations are presented during the ride. But before starting, one can design the own car with its different components. In the following ride the car will be tested on efficiency, responsiveness, power and its overall performance.

What makes the attraction that expensive?

The 'test track' cost 220,000,000€.

The construction was planned in the nineties. At that time they noticed a technical problem: Only six cars could be designed at a time. But for that, the expected amount of visitors was way too much.

Several years and millions of euros were needed until the computer were able to cope with 29 cars at the same time.