Generally, waterparks, as we have come to know (and expect of) them, cost between $10 million and $40 million to build. Indoor theme parks require, on average, $10 million to $30 million to build.
Simply so, are amusement parks profitable?
They are also big money makers. In the United States, the revenue generated from amusement and theme parks is forcast to amount to over 22 billion U.S. dollars in 2019 and this is expected to continue to rise in the future.
Correspondingly, how much does it cost to build a roller coaster at a theme park? The average cost to build a roller coaster is about $8 million dollars, and it typically involves the input of the entire engineering team.
Moreover, how much money does an amusement park make in a day?
A website called Get Away Today ran the numbers on the parks and came up with about $4-6 million per day. In March of 2020, the OC Register in California wrote about the economic cost of the global shutdown, which can help us pinpoint the dollar amount even further!