Press release from Siam Park
Siam Park water park located on the island of Tenerife, has been recognised with the prestigious Applause Award 2024, considered the “Oscar” of the global amusement park industry. This great recognition was presented on Sunday, March 3rd, at a ceremony held at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas during a gala event at which IAAPA also presented its annual awards. This is the first time this year that the IAAPA Honours and the Applause Award have come together to celebrate excellence and innovation in the amusement park industry.
“We are very excited to have the Applause Award join the IAAPA Honors. The idea of this new event is to celebrate excellence in the global attractions industry, but also to emphasise what each attendee can learn from the award winners to improve their own business”
Says Jakob Wahl, CEO and president of IAAPA.
The Applause Award is an international award given by Liseberg, a large theme park in Gothenburg, Sweden, which is awarded every two years to the theme park that “has inspired the industry with its insight, originality and strong business development through its management, operations and creative achievements ” according to Andreas Veilstrup Andersen, president and CEO of the Liseberg Group and chairman of the Applause Award Board of Directors.
The award, which began in 1980 with the recognition of Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, has recognised the best in the industry from around the world every two years. Siam Park now enters the list with full honours, thanks to the quality and innovative features that make the Water Kingdom the highest rated water park on the planet.
A recognition of excellence
This award is added to Siam Park’s long list of awards, which in 2024 was recognised for the ninth time as the Traveller’s Best of The Best by the clients of Trip Advisor, the largest travel website on the planet. It has also been awarded twelve times with the European Star Award for the best Water Park in Europe and 3 editions of the Park Word Excellence Award.
Christoph Kiessling, Vice President of the Loro Parque Group pointed out the importance of this achievement:
“For us this award has a very special importance, because it comes from our own sector and highlights the enormous effort we maintain in Siam Park, to constantly innovate, with the highest quality standards, always in search of excellence.”
The Vice-president also wanted to highlight the value of the Siam Park team “who make it possible to offer customers a perfect experience, in every way, on every visit”.
The award, designed by Swedish sculptor Astri Taube, consists of a bronze statue of two hands clapping, in a perfect recreation of the applause of success. This award is of great significance as it is a recognition by the theme park industry itself, applying the highest standards in all areas of assessment and honours a park whose management, operations and creative achievements have inspired the industry with foresight, originality and sound business development.
About Siam Park
Siam Park is the best water park on the face of the earth, as confirmed by the Travellers’ Choice Best of the Best, which Siam Park has received nine consecutive times thanks to the positive reviews of its visitors on the prestigious travel portal TripAdvisor. Siam Park is the only park to have achieved this distinction so many times in a row, and also the only park to have received this award since TripAdvisor inaugurated the “water parks” category.
This repeated recognition is undoubtedly the result of the constant innovation and reinvestment of the Loro Parque Company in all its projects, with which it always pursues excellence. In addition to being a reference in the TripAdvisor awards, it also enjoys international recognition from organisations such as the leading publication and benchmark in the valuation of theme parks, Kirmes & Park Revue, which has awarded Siam Park with the European Star Award for Best Water Park in Europe for the twelfth consecutive year, among many others.
In addition to its spectacular attractions, the beauty of this park is, in itself, an incomparable attraction, and nothing is comparable to being able to enjoy unique attractions in the world, in an unprecedented bet in an environment of lush vegetation and Thai design and decoration. Visitors will be able to experience first-hand the sensations produced by Tower of Power and its 28-metre high slide; or Saifa, Siam Park’s new attraction which has already been recognised by the World Association of Theme Parks (IAAPA) as the best attraction in the world.
And for those looking for relaxation in an exclusive atmosphere, Siam Park offers Siam Beach, the most paradisiacal beach with artificial waves in the Canary Islands, where the incredible waves of The Wave Palace break. Siam Park, located in Adeje, Tenerife, is a place where good weather and fun are guaranteed all year round and is, therefore, another must if you travel to the Canary Islands.
