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clrR"></div><div class="mR165"><div><div class="textMedBlackBold">By <a href="javascript:fdcBioWindow('sophiabanay')">Sophia Banay</a></div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/home/index.html?partner=msnbc"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/home/index.html?partner=msnbc"><img border="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050im_/http://media.msnbc.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Sources/Local/sourceForbes.gif" height="20" width="140" vspace="0" hspace="0"></a></a><div class="textTimestamp"><div id="udtD">Updated: 2:39 p.m. ET June 1, 2006</div><script language="javascript"> function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' && n && window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,((''.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('632847839500600000'); </script></div></div><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Sixty-foot vertical drops and $45 admission tickets are old news. Today, the steepest thing in the amusement industry is the growth of spending in Asia.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>The U.S. theme park industry, once a rocketing roller coaster, is looking more and more like a lazy turn on the Ferris wheel. Amusement park sales in the U.S. are forecast to grow from $10.8 billion to $12.9 billion between 2005 and 2009, according to a recent study by <b><strong>PricewaterhouseCoopers</strong></b>. That's an average annual growth rate of 3.9%--sluggish compared to the 5.5% the industry experienced between 1999 and 2000. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Meanwhile, the Asia/Pacific theme park market will balloon from $6.1 billion to $8.1 billion, an average annual growth rate of 5.7%. And the amusement industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa combined will grow about 5% per year, reaching $5 billion by 2009.</p><div class="aC"><div class="textSmallGrey w320"><a href="#storyContinued">Story continues below ↓</a><hr noshade size="1"> advertisement <div style="padding:0 10 10 10;"><script>ad_dap(250,300,'&PG=NBCNCB&AP=1089');</script></div><hr noshade size="1"></div></div><a name="storyContinued"></a><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>"If you look worldwide, the mature markets are in the U.S. and Western Europe," says <b><strong>Beth Robertson</strong></b>, vice president of communications at the <b><strong>International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions</strong></b>, based in Alexandria, Va. "There's not that much land available for building. Where we're really seeing a tremendous growth is in Asia and the Middle East. In China, for example, you have a huge population with very few parks and attractions. It's a great area to find large amounts of land." </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>The IAAPA industry trade show is being held in Shanghai this summer to accommodate the large number of new manufacturing facilities for amusement parks that are opening in China. The Middle East is catching on, too--last winter, Dubai opened a 1,500-person indoor ski park, one of the largest in the world. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="left" style="padding:5 15 0 0;"><tr><td><script>getCSS("3053751")</script><div class="box_3053751" style="width:300;"><script></script><table width="300" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxH_3053751"><tr><td width="*" nowrap="true" class="boxHC_3053751"><div class="textSmallBold"> 10 best amusement parks</div></td></tr></table><table width="300" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxB_3053751"><tr valign="top"><td class="boxBI_3053751"><div class="textMed"><b>Click here to see slide show</b></div><div class="textHang"><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World, Florida</a></span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_2.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Tokyo Disneyland</a> </span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_3.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Disneyland Paris</a> </span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_4.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Everland, South Korea</a> </span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_5.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Blackpool Pleasure Beach, England</a></span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_6.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Tivoli Gardens, Denmark</a> </span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_7.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Ocean Park, Hong Kong</a> </span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_8.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Europa-Park, Germany</a> </span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_9.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Paramount Canada's Wonderland, Ontario</a> </span></div><div style="padding-bottom:3px"><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/cx_sb_0601featslide_10.html?partner=msnbc" target="_blank">Port Aventura, Spain</a> </span></div></div></td></tr></table><table width="300" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxF_3053751"><tr><td class="boxFI_3053751"><div class="textSmall"><p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/" target="_blank">Forbes.com</a></p></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table>So how can American theme parks keep up, especially considering the high energy costs plaguing summer travelers this year? </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Some companies, like entertainment juggernaut <b><strong>The Walt Disney Co.</strong></b> (nyse: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/compinfo/CompanyTearsheet.jhtml?tkr=DIS" target="_blank">DIS</a> - <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=DIS" target="_blank">news </a>- <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060615054050/http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=DIS" target="_blank">people </a>), are staying ahead of the game by opening new parks in the undersaturated regions. Disney has parks in Tokyo and Marne-La-Vallée, France, and last September it opened a $1.8 billion theme park in Hong Kong, in conjunction with the Chinese government. The company is also reportedly investigating the possibility of opening another park on the mainland.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>For smaller U.S. amusement parks, opening a new ride or attraction, instead of a whole new park, may be the most realistic way to keep visitors funneling in through the long, hot summer. "Although there aren't new parks, we're seeing great new rides and attractions announced this year," Robertson says. One of the spring season highlights was the April 1 opening of Goliath at <b><strong>Six Flags Over Georgia</strong></b>, a 70-mph roller coaster that covers 8.5 acres in a 3.5 minute ride.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>In addition to wild new rides, pricing discounts and other incentives are helping to pull in summer crowds: <b><strong>Cedar Point Amusement Park</strong></b> in Sandusky, Ohio, is offering 25-cent cotton candy, and the Web site for <b><strong>Kennywood Amusement Park</strong></b> in West Mifflin, Pa., links to a ZIP code database that lets visitors search for the cheapest places to buy gas.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Still other parks are offering as much as $15 off admission tickets in exchange for a gas receipt. But according to Robertson, the price of gas isn't high enough to affect most Americans' vacation plans. "It takes a gas shortage before plans are canceled, and we aren't seeing that," she says.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>With Memorial Day behind us but a long summer ahead, Forbes.com has compiled a list of the world's most popular amusement parks. We worked with numbers from trade publication <em>Amusement Business</em> and consulting firm Economic Research Associates, which ranked the top international amusement parks by 2005 attendance. We picked the best-attended park in each of ten countries. 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