A Paramount-branded theme park and integrated resort – the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia – is planned for Bali’s little-visited west coast. A cooperation agreement to build the park, complete with golf courses and two themed hotels, was signed in Los Angeles in late July between American film production and distribution company Paramount Pictures and Kios Ria Kreasi,...
An artist’s impression of the planned Bali Paramount Pictures Theme Park, which would be the biggest such attraction in Southeast Asia.A Paramount-branded theme park and integrated resort – the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia – is planned for Bali’s little-visited west coast.
The as-yet unnamed park will be built at the halfway mark of a planned 100km toll road between Mengwi, in central Bali, and Gilimanuk, the terminal for ferries to Indonesia’s main island, Java . Announced in 2015 as a means to distribute tourism from the overdeveloped south to the whisper-quiet north, the long-delayed megaproject was recently removed from Indonesia’s National Strategic Project list, along with Tiro Dam in Aceh and the Tanjung Api-Api Economic Centre in South Sumatra, because of a lack of progress.
Paramount is, of course, a different story. It has owned, operated or licensed busy theme parks in the United States since 1993. However, except for Paramount Canada’s Wonderland, every proposal for an overseas theme park the company has put its name to has run into lengthy delays or been nixed. In 2011, it was reported Paramount would develop a theme park in Murcia, Spain, with 30 attractions and an adjacent shopping centre, hotels and casino. Work on the US$1.5 billion project was set to start in 2012. But ground was never broken and today the site is a farm.
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