Merlin Entertainments
Merlin Entertainments , created in 2004, is since 2007, with its new subsidiary company Tussauds Group, the second group of leisures in the world behind the division parks with topics of Disney. The company is based with Poole in the Dorset with the the United Kingdom and is held in majority by the funds of investments Blackstone Group.
In 2005, Blackstone Group buys a majority share of division Legoland, the amusement park of Lego.
In 2006, the company managed 37 tourist places in 10 European countries and a park with topics in California. It has many partnerships with at the same time private public corporations and like Disney or WWF.
In 2007, the company bought the Tussauds Group for 1 billion £ to the group Dubai International Capital which takes however a particpation of 20% in the new unit. The new group manages tourist sites in 12 countries and account more 13 000 employees.
Attractions
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The Dungeons is a group of exposures on the medieval topic whose principal one is the London Dungeon. They are also with Edinburgh, York, Hamburg and Amsterdam.
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Earth Explorer is a scientific attraction based with Ostend in Belgium and directed towards the way in which the elements form our planet.
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Gardaland is most important amusement park of Italy with 40 attractions, 10 spectacles and a hotel of 247 rooms on more than 24 hectares
- Legoland is a chain of four parks bought in 2005 with the Lego Group based with the Denmark. The mark Lego continues to have 30% of this company. There exist currently four parks with topics Legoland and a center of discovered:
- Legoland Billund located at Denmark
- Legoland Windsor located at Windsor in England
- Legoland California located at Carlsbad in California,
- Legoland Deutschland located at Günzburg in Germany
- Legoland Discovery Center is a center of attractions installed on the Potsdamer Platz of Berlin and having to open at Easter 2007.
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Sea Life Centres is a whole of 23 centers located in Europe (of which the Aquarium Sea Life Paris with Disneyland Resort Paris, the National Sea Life Center with Birmingham, Loch Lomond Aquarium and Hanover) and of itinerant aquariums with Dresden and Nuremberg.
This entity manages also marine sanctuaries starting from the three following centers: the National Seal Sanctuary, Cornwall; the Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary; the Scottish SEA LIFE Sanctuary with Oban.
Tussauds Group
- the museums of wax Mrs Tussauds
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The British Airways London Eye the United Kingdom
- Warwick Castle the United Kingdom
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Four parks with topics:
- Alton Towers in the Staffordshire the United Kingdom
- Thorpe Park in Surrey the United Kingdom
- Chessington World off Adventures in Surrey the United Kingdom
- Heide Park with Soltau Germany
Hotels
- The Alton Towers Hotel, Staffordshire, the United Kingdom
- Splash Landings Hotel, Staffordshire, the United Kingdom
- Safari Lodge Hotel, Surrey, the United Kingdom
- Royal Port Hotel, Soltau, Germany
- Alton Towers Conference Centers, Staffordshire, the United Kingdom
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