Opened on 01 July 2016, The Land of Legends Theme Park is the biggest leisure and entertainment park in Turkey, situated in Belek, Antalya. It includes Europe’s largest aqua park. It is the first collaboration between Rixos World Parks & Entertainment, Dragone Productions, the world’s leading brand in cultural creativity and Emaar Properties PJSC. The Land of Legends is a brand new entertainment concept with its spectacular architecture and the creativity of entertainment world legend Franco Dragone.
In its first 3 months of opening in 2016, 500,000 visitors enjoyed over 70 slides in the aqua park. Rixos Hotels are building a strong reputation with UK visitors and welcomed 40,000 Brits in 2015, a 25% increase over 2014, and 1 million guests in total across its 9000 rooms in Turkey.
“Our success was ensured by our unique business model. I am not an hotelier but I am a destination creator. Rixos has created a new lifestyle and a new family destination. We are not competing with other contenders in the market, rather we created a new market within the hospitality market.” commented Mr Fettah Tamince, Chairman, The Rixos Hotels, “We also thrive on being able to accommodate people from all walks of life as we have a variety of Rixos properties that cover different ranges, the highest being Rixos Premium Belek.”
Established in 2000, Award winning Rixos Hotels is a fast-growing global luxury chain of hotels. Their vision is to provide traditional Turkish hospitality to guests. The Antalya-based Group consists of 26 hotels across 10 countries including Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Croatia (Dubrovnik), Switzerland (Davos), and Egypt amongst others.