First Asian entrepreneur to receive the TEA Buzz Price Award

2024-03-21 22:24:03

Zhuhai, China, March 13-16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Themed Entertainment Association’s TEA INSPIRE Global Summit and 30th Annual Thea Awards Gala took place in Los Angeles from March 13 to 16. United Nations Ambassador for Sustainable Tourism and Chairman of Chimelong Group, Mr. SU, Zhi Gang, will be honored with the Buzz Price Thea Award for a Lifetime of Distinguished Achievements – the first Asian entrepreneur to receive the award.

The Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) was founded in 1991. It is a non-profit organization with approximately 1,600 members that represents the top creators, developers, designers and producers in the international themed entertainment industry. TEA conducts a selection process and presents the Thea Awards every year. The awards are considered one of the highest honors in the international entertainment industry and are referred to as the “Oscars” of the entertainment industry.

Continuous innovation, research and development. Unlimited creativity. Very popular with tourists.

Since its founding in 1989, the Chimelong Group has been focused on cultural tourism for over thirty years. Through continuous innovation, research, development and limitless creativity, the company has successfully created two world-class cultural tourism centers: Chimelong Resort in Guangzhou and Chimelong International Ocean Resort in Hengqin, Zhuhai. These two large resorts attract countless visitors with their wide range of entertainment, dazzling performances and comfortable accommodations. Over the decades, Chimelong has become a cultural tourism brand popular with tourists from China and abroad. The resorts receive nearly 40 million visitors annually and Chimelong has catapulted itself to the top of the world’s theme park companies.

Chimelong Resort in Guangzhou is Chimelong Group’s first large-scale, comprehensive themed resort and features world-class theme parks, event spaces and hotels such as Chimelong Safari Park, Chimelong Paradise, Chimelong Water Park, Chimelong Bird Park and Chimelong International Circus, as well the Chimelong Hotel, the Chimelong Panda Hotel and the Chimelong Xiangjiang Hotel. It is the most comprehensive theme resort in China with the most top-level theme parks and is considered “China’s most popular one-stop vacation destination.”

Chimelong International Ocean Resort in Hengqin, Zhuhai is a “super resort” in which the Chimelong Group has invested all its efforts. It combines theme parks, luxury hotels, commercial convention and exhibition facilities, tourism, shopping, sports and leisure in one. It is also one of the largest marine-themed resorts in the world, employs state-of-the-art technology and has highly creative design and competent management. It combines theme parks, resort hotels, cultural events, commercial convention and exhibition facilities, dining and leisure in one. According to reports, the Chimelong Resort in Qingyuan is under construction and will soon go into trial operation.

Satisfying the different needs of visitors. Groundbreaking for thematically oriented cultural tourism.

With the public’s ever-growing demand for travel experiences, thematic tourism is gradually becoming the new favorite of the tourism market, while providing new inspiration and guidance for the innovation and redesign of scenic areas. The Chimelong Group closely addresses the diverse needs of visitors to and always maintains a forward-looking vision and a tireless spirit of discovery. Through accompaniment and dialogue with the international community and collaboration with top international teams, the Chimelong Group is continuously expanding its tourism offer and, with its wide range of thematic events and interactive performances, has effectively increased the cultural substance and added value of its products, the participatory feeling of visitors and promoted the development of thematic cultural tourism. At the same time, through continuous innovation and optimization of the content and form of its events, Chimelong has successfully attracted visitors of different age groups and achieved wide market coverage.

China’s cultural tourism brand has won multiple awards. Expect big things from her in the future.

Looking at the list of Thea Award recipients over the past thirty years, this is not the first time that the Chimelong Group has won a TEA Thea Award. In 2014, Guangzhou’s Chimelong Resort was the only Asian representative to place in the top three of the TEA’s “World’s Best Theme Park” awards – a groundbreaking moment for Chinese theme parks in the industry’s biggest awards. In 2015, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom won the TEA Award for Outstanding Achievement–Theme Park for the second time, and in 2017 and 2018, Chimelong Ocean Kingdom’s 5D Castle Theater and Journey of Lights Parade were consecutively awarded the Award for Outstanding Achievement, which is awarded by the TEA. In 2019, Chimelong Water Park became the first water park to be awarded the TEA Award for Outstanding Achievement for its “SlideWheel”, the first of its kind in the world. According to TEA’s authoritative data, Chimelong Water Park in Guangzhou has been awarded continuously since 2013 ranked as the “highest attended water park in the world” and has repeatedly broken its own world records for both annual total number of visitors to a water park and average daily number of visitors to a water park.

Chimelong has always strived to provide visitors with the best holiday experience through innovation and exceptional service, and hopes that as it continues to develop, it can introduce the world to the unique appeal of Chinese cultural tourism.

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