The difference between the characteristics of traditional and new children’s water parks

There are mainly two types of traditional children’s water parks: one is outdoor children’s water park, and the other is indoor children’s water park. In recent years, the domestic market for children’s play has seen the emergence of new play items. These innovations even represent the current level of the world’s leading children’s play market. We will categorise these new children’s playgrounds into basic classifications: entertaining type, role-playing type, popular science entertainment type, and early education type.

Traditional outdoor parks are relatively large in scale, often set up in parks or amusement parks with clear thematic positioning. The selection and equipment of project facilities are primarily aimed at teenagers and children. To achieve the basic purpose of generating profits for the park itself, this kind of project finds it challenging to differentiate based on the age level of the service group in the selection and equipment of facilities, generally meeting the standards of all age levels. Indoor parks mainly feature entertainment projects represented by water slides, such as snake slides. This type of project mostly comprises small and medium-sized children’s amusement projects and children’s amusement equipment with high safety. Due to the limited variety of equipment, the scale is also correspondingly restricted.

In the new children’s water parks, the area required for the entertaining type is about 1,000 square metres, with no special requirements for the load-bearing and space height of the building structure. The main content of the game involves higher security game items, mostly participatory intellectual games. The role-playing type can have different characteristics for different age levels, with each game project developed having a certain focus. Popular Science is the main entertainment type aimed at children, with equipment and facilities for school-age science classes. This type of project typically requires an area of about 1,000-2,000 square metres and is generally set within city centre public parks. The Early Learning type is an emerging educational market for young children, with no large-scale assistant equipment. The main profit point is specific to early childhood programmes, combined with the development of intelligence games, largely meeting the interests of parents.