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Warner Village Theme Parks is having good luck selling its three Gold Coast, Australia, theme parks in package deals, despite this year's 20% decline in attendance attributed to Y2K concerns, followed by six months of wet weather and a 10% goods and services tax that went into effect July 1.
About a third of park passes sold to Australians are under a "3 Park Super Pass" deal that includes a ticket for Warner Bros. Movie World, Sea World and Wet'n Wild Water World, plus an extra ticket that can be used for a fourth day at any one of the parks.
"We're hoping to have a much better year in 2001," said WVTP CEO John Menzies. "2000 was a very unusual year." The three parks normally host over 3 million visitors per year - 75% of all the visitors to the Gold Coast.
The parks' peak season is after Christmas and the first three weeks in January, which was a real problem this year because people did not want to travel at that time due to Y2K fears.
A third of the trio's visitors are from the local area, a third are from other parts of Australia and...