Are hotel indoor waterparks growing?
Regional resort destinations with a history of attracting families will expand to include hotel waterpark resorts. Destinations such as the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Berkshires in Massachusetts, the Poconos of Pennsylvania, the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and the Finger Lakes Region of New York are all target locations for hotel waterpark resort development. Resort owners and developers will increasingly try to eliminate seasonality and weather factors by designing resorts to capture year round revenues. Future resort designs will incorporate indoor-outdoor combinations using new technology structures, domed enclosures and moveable glass walls. Any recreation or sporting activity you normally do outdoors will have an indoor version. Hotels with indoor waterparks will grow to a 144 by year-end 2006, up 33% from 108 in 2005. 73 new hotel waterpark expansion projects will be under construction in 2006. 13 have already opened during the first half of the year. A total of 36 ho
