Categories & Criteria
into the Park World Excellence Awards’ Roll of Honour.
Best Roller Coaster
– Pushed the boundaries in design and creativity, or overcame challenges in construction
– Is unique and different to any other roller coaster
– Can be wood, steel or hybrid
Best Roller Coaster – Limited Budget
– Pushed the boundaries in design and creativity, or overcame challenges in construction
– Is unique and different to any other roller coaster
– Can be wood, steel or hybrid
Best Ride(s)
– Can be an individual kiddie ride, family ride, thrill ride or water ride, or a mix of those rides
– If creating a new area, the project can be entered as one
– Isn’t a roller coaster, water slide or dark ride
– Is innovative and unique
Best Ride(s) – Limited Budget
– Can be an individual kiddie ride, family ride, thrill ride or water ride, or a mix of those rides
– If creating a new area, the project can be entered as one
– Isn’t a roller coaster, water slide or dark ride
– Is innovative and unique
Best Dark Ride or Media-based Experience
– An indoor amusement ride or walk-through attraction in which guests ride in vehicles or travel by foot through scenes telling a story with animatronics, special effects or video
– Or an attraction mixing video and physical experiences, such as scent pods, moving seats or water sprays
– Is unique and pushes the boundaries in design and creativity
Best Water Park Experience
– An indoor or outdoor ride (e.g. water slide), attraction (e.g. wave pool, surf simulator, etc.) or experience opened by a water park
– Isn’t a water ride or a water slide opened by an amusement park
– Is innovative and unique
Best FEC Project
– Can be a small ride, a new activity /equipment big enough compared to the whole offer (an attraction, a show, a game, a new equipment, a game area or any kind of experience)
– Is innovative and unique or pushes the boundaries in design, equipment or creativity.
Best Use of Theming
– Can be seen in a theme/water park either in a ride, or restaurant, or shop, or show or in a resort hotel
– The theming could incorporate scenery, animatronics, video projections, lighting, audio or pyrotechnics
– Has significantly improved the guest experience of a ride or visit to a theme/water park, transforming the ordinary to the extraordinary
Best Supplier
– A supplier that stood out for doing something exceptional during the period 1 September 2021 – 10 July 2022 in the EMEA region.
Best Large Park
– Over 1.5million guests annually
– Has stood out as doing something exceptional over the past 12 months
– Has been seen to go above and beyond their usual standards
Best Regional Park
– Under 1.5million guests annually
– Has stood out as doing something exceptional over the past 12 months
– Has been seen to go above and beyond their usual standards
Best Water Park
– Has stood out as doing something exceptional over the past 12 months
– Has been seen to go above and beyond their usual standards
Best FEC
– Specific location, not a chain
– Has stood out as doing something exceptional over the past 12 months
– Has been seen to go above and beyond their usual standards
Best Live Entertainment
– Can be a parade, street performers, stage show, scare maze with actors, Christmas event with actors and so on
– Must be different to anything seen before or enhancing previous examples in an innovative way
Industry Icon – Operator
Industry Icon – Supplier
Best Green Initiative
– Project(s) or practice(s) that reduce the impact of activities on the environment and that help partners and customers to do the same
- Examples include the introduction of sustainable business practices, improving waste management practices, reducing carbon emissions, creating a healthy environment, protection of ecological systems
- Must be innovative, creative and eco-friendly
Best Product Innovation (Rides/Games/Shows)
– Can be seen in a theme park, a water park or in a FEC
– New and innovative, examples include new roller coaster or ride models / activity, game or play equipment or show equipment featuring an outstanding use of one or several technologies together
– Concepts excluded. The candidate must submit at least one location (EMEA region) in where the product has been implemented during the period mentioned above.
Best Product Innovation (Guest experience/Park Operations)
– Designed to enhance the guest experience or improve park operations of a theme park, a water park or a FEC.
– Guest experience – examples include customer information systems, mobile apps, cashless equipment etc
– Park operations – examples include ticketing, access control, security, F&B, HR etc
– Concepts excluded. The candidate must submit at least one location (EMEA region) in where the product has been implemented during the period mentioned above.
Best Marketing Initiative (NEW for 2022)
– We’d like you to outline exactly what was undertaken to promote your business to attract customers between 1 September 2021 and 10 July 2022 and focus on one specific initiative that most proud of.
PLUS!
Best of the Best
Judges choice – external nominations not permitted.
Winner revealed on the night – no shortlist published.
The judging panel will each put forward a park, ride or attraction from any point in time, that they believe is the best of all time.
The Park World Excellence Award for Best of the Best is the absolute pinnacle, reflecting everything that is great about our industry.