Attendence at theme parks increases.

[CoasterDave316]

Attendance at North America's 50 most popular theme and amusement parks jumped almost 4 percent in 2004, the first overall increase since the 2001 terrorist attacks slowed the U.S. travel and tourism industry.

According to Amusement Buisness, Six Flags Great America's attendence was flat at 2.3 million rounding out the top 25 most attended parks in North America.

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[InsaneNewman]

Well, I guess that's good for our park, as chain-wide attendance decreased for the year. That means that our park pulled it's share of the load.

[w00dland]

Looks like we surpassed SFoT for the third most visited Six Flags park this year...I can see us passing BGW easily with our new waterpark coming next year.

[Galvan]

I could also see that happen too, who knows maybe we will surpass... Cedar Point

[Mr. SFGAm]

Wow, a few parks sure jumped around this year. Kings Island took back the role of most visited seasonal park from SFGAdv, and Canada's Wonderland had a 30% attendance increase. I don't think it even made the top 30 last year!!

Otherwise, SFGAm is doing pretty good, managing to keep attendance at a level median instead of having a 4% drop like last year. See, I think Mardi Gras helped, probably bringing back lots of families. Next year should be great for attendance.

[w00dland]

I think that if attendance doesn't go up significantly this year it won't ever spike...(going up by more that like 5-10%)

Unless we lie to Gurnee and build a 500 foot coaster that is supposidly 310 ft. tall.

[InsaneNewman]

I would love to even see a 310ft coaster... even that would bring in quite a few guests, as the "largest coaster in the midwest"... as long as you don't count Ohio as part of the midwest, and I think that they've done that before, as I remember hearing commercials for "the midwest's largest themepark."

[The Beast]

Ok the park that REALLY cracks me up is, Paramount's Canada Wonderland is that high up. I mean it has more than Cedar Point and a 30% increase. I went to that park this year too...

[sixflagsguy5]

I thought Cedar Point would have alot more people attending.

[w00dland]

There are only so many theme parks in Canada...

[The Beast]

Um sorta off topic: This guy at PCW was like "So you're from America eh? So you say huh instead of eh?
Well PCW is only 20 minutes from Toronto which is the largest city in Canada so it makes sense, I guess. The park could have been a lot better.