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Ireland's largest amusement park, Tayto Park, will present a planning application for its biggest attraction so far, an iconic 14 million-meter roller coaster ride in the coming days.
Tayto Park owner Ray Coyle said on Thursday that the new roller coaster will be the same height as Cú Chulainn, 32 meters high, but will be 400 meters longer than those of Cuso Chulainn (1,082 meters).
Mr Coyle said the new roller coaster will "see the future of Tayto Park locked on copper".
"The new roller coaster will be two roller coasters in one, it will be a first for Europe and will ensure the future of the park.If you do not create a monument every three or four years, your numbers will start. to go down and that's the way to closing. "
Coyle said plans for the roller coaster would be tabled with Meath County Council next week.
He also said that the goal was to secure planning in 2019, build the Russian mountain in 2020 and open it to the public in 2021.
He confirmed that the cost of the roller coaster would be 14 million euros and that it could accommodate 1,200 pbadengers by the hour, while Cú Chulainn was carrying 1,000 pbadengers to the airport. hour.
Mr Coyle commented on Tayto Park's new accounts, which show that its pre-tax profits rose 8% to 3.65 million euros.
This increase follows a 5% increase in turnover to reach € 17,533 million – an average of € 92,770 of revenue per day for each of the 189 days that Tayto Park opened last year.
Mr. Coyle confirmed that 720,000 visitors came to Tayto Park last year and that this year the numbers will increase by about 3-4% despite the drop in the number of visitors for the month of July because of the heat wave.
He added that Tayto Park's earnings before taxes on amortization (EBITDA) amounted to 7 million euros for the previous year.
Mr. Coyle said he was "delighted" with Tayto Park's performance in 2017 and 2018.
Mr. Coyle opened Tayto Park "in a field at Co Meath" in October 2010. He said: "No one came before six months.I thought it should close, but at Easter 2011 people have started coming in. you are going along. "
Mr. Coyle said the crowds traveling to Tayto Park in 2018 would be the largest to date. He said, "Word of mouth is the way most people come to Tayto Park – that's about 60% of people."
He said that the most popular attraction is the all-wood roller coaster Cú Chulainn that opened in 2015.
He said that 40% of visitors went to the Tayto Park Zoo and 35% visited the Tayto factory.
Mr. Coyle also said that Tayto Park received a very important business from Northern Ireland, representing 24 to 25 percent of all customers.
Mr. Coyle said the park is adding more and more to its attractions each year.
The park has also been a powerful employer in the region. The accounts for 2017 show that the number of people employed last year rose to 296 with staff costs of 4.4 million euros.
Last year, after-tax profits of Tayto Park amounted to 3.1 million euros after a corporate tax of 549,402 euros.
The badets of the company had a book value of 33.48 million euros at the end of last year.
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