PowerPark aims to attract half a million visitors
PowerparkPowerPark, the multi-activity amusement park in Alahärmä aims at attracting up to half a million visitors this summer. The amusement park, which has grown into a key tourism destination in the region, aims to increase its turnover by one and a half this season.
Multi-activitypark PowerPark was originally the idea of Jorma Lillbacka, a machinery engineer known as the founder of Finn-Power and Powerco companies. The idea has grown into a success story, and opens now it’s seventh season. The park sees new developments all the time. This year’s project is the Fairytale Land. Its first section will bring the visitors into a troll village.
Powerpark has developed very fats into one of the leading tourist destinations in the Finnish Ostrobothnia. The amusement park employs 40 people the whole year, in addition to which the seasonal workers total to 260 this summer.
There is another 30 hectares of available space around the park. Future plans include for instance the building of a hotel. The director of PowerPark, Mikko Kiviluoma, confirms that the park continues to be developed further.
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