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DREAMWORLD has wiped the floor with its Gold Coast rivals after delivering higher profits and a surge in visitor numbers during the December half-year.
Owner Ardent Leisure yesterday unveiled a 5.7 per cent increase in pre-tax earnings for the theme park to $21.6 million despite extreme weather conditions over summer.
The news came a day after Village Roadshow reported a 27 per cent slide in pre-tax profits to
$14.6 million over the six months to the end of December, thanks to 87 days of rain belting the figures at Sea World, Movie World and Wet'n'Wild.
Ardent Leisure chief executive Greg Shaw described it as an "extremely strong" result that would have been "significantly better" had the weather been on side.
Ardent...