Amusement and Family Entertainment

Consider the whole family for your amusement and family entertainment packages
By Cheryl Bridges Amusement and family entertainment is a major focus for multinational media conglomerates. Location-based entertainment is growing and bringing more amusement parks and family entertainment centers to public spaces. Over the past 10 years, massive urban, suburban and tourist developments have sprouted up.

Theme family vacations and reunion packages make family amusement and family entertainment trips more and more accessible. A large family entertainment group benefits from offering theme park hotels adjacent to theme parks keeping consumer dollars within the park. Convenience packages are proving to be a better deal for families and the family entertainment business industry.

Keep your consumer feeling nostalgic about childhood vacations, consider these options for your family packages:

1. Offer local promos for families staying closer to home this year.

2. Think city-wide entertainment with national amusement park packages.

3. On location theme park vacations for the globe-trotting family.

Promote your local family entertainment centers

Think green and offer your local consumer incentives for family entertainment centers. Offer entertainment for even the youngest visitor with activities encouraging pretending and imaginative play and social and motor skills development to add learning opportunities to indoor family fun. Consider science activities as well as sports and games.
Try:  Celebration Station offers various locations across the US with park-like setting and Harry Hound for a whole-family experience at a reason price. With 50 years experience, Putt-Putt Fun Centers offers local mini amusement parks with miniature golf. Patrons find attractions like batting cages, laser tag, game rooms, climbing walls, go-karts and bumper boats.

National amusement parks offer home-town Americana

Look at national venues offering park hopping city tickets for the whole family. Packages that offer the second day free make it easier for families to bring the youngest and the oldest alike. Families also like convenience packages with hotel and amusement park tickets together.
Try:  Six Flags offers dozens of regional amusement parks throughout the US with the popular second day free and annual passes. The Anheuser-Busch family of amusement parks participate in city-wide tickets offering packaged deals for major attractions across the US.

Consider the international theme parks destination

Look for theme park companies at international venues offering family packages for overseas excursion. More and more family entertainment companies are focusing on international ports of call. Even the smallest amusement centers are building multiply sites in Mexico and Canada as well as overseas.
Try:  The wonderful world of Disney is all over the world. Disney has theme parks in Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong and offers cruise lines packages to the Caribbean and the Bahamas with family vacation planning services. Coral World International offers an environmental awareness vacation with state-of-the-art marine observation attractions worldwide.

• Bring your water park attractions indoors to keep the profits flowing freely year-round.