SPACEPORTLEISURE NEWS ROOM PRESS RELEASE:

SpacePortLeisure and International Leisure Development sign Binding Letter of Intent for SpacePortGranScala, a futuristic space city at Gran Scala in Aragón, Spain, a Planned €17 Billion Entertainment Tourism Destination.

Zaragoza, Spain [PRWEB] December 12, 2007 – SpacePortLeisure (www.SpacePortLeisure.com), a South African company headquartered in Cape Town, is the visionary and developer of the space-themed leisure and entertainment concept and has a vision to build a global business around space-themed urban city lifestyle developments, location-based entertainment and hospitality [theme parks, entertainment centers, hotels and dining destinations], digital entertainment and electronic media. The initial geographic focus has been China, where SpacePortLeisure is establishing a significant footprint, and now Western Europe with SpacePortGranScala.

Imagine a global business built on futuristic learning and entertainment, and based on the wonders of the universe and mankind’s interaction with space – that’s SpacePortLeisure.

Gran Scala is a €17 billion entertainment city to be built on 2,025 hectares in the Aragón desert and will include 32 casinos, hotels and five theme parks. A British-based consortium, International Leisure Development, whose major shareholders include Aristocrat Technologies, UFA Insurance, Ultragroup, Inc. Atlanta, USA, Europtima, and Tranchant Group, chose the location because of a possible 25 million catchment market (excluding foreign tourists) and its proximity to Zaragoza Airport, an important hub in the low cost air network. Zaragoza is also one of NASA’s Shuttle Tactical Abort Landing Sites (STAL).

The underlying core offer of SpacePortGranScala will be “Explore”, “Experience”, Innovate” and “Live”, themes that will be carried through SpacePortGranScala’s theme park, hotel, retail, and lifestyle real estate.

“Using space as a theme together with our human desire to explore, and with technology as the enabler, SpacePortLeisure will provide intelligent, stimulating, and fun-filled lifestyle, entertainment and learning experiences that will give freedom to transcend language and culture, thus creating dynamic new ways of learning and of building new communities across the globe. Our creativity will be as expansive as the Universe” says Danny Naidoo, SpacePort Leisure’s recently appointed President & Chief Executive Officer, who, for the last five years, was a Microsoft South Africa Director, thus bringing a vast amount of knowledge and expertise to SpacePortLeisure.

Only a privileged few will be able to experience a real flight into space. In conceiving the SpacePortLeisure concept, the goal is to give visitors and residents alike, an experience of “Stepping into Space” at our SpacePort destinations says Raoul Katovsky, SpacePortLeisure’s Executive Chairman, who announced SpacePortGranScala at a major international media briefing by the Aragón Government in Zaragoza today.

Visitors to a SpacePortLeisure theme park will be whipped away from Planet Earth for the day on an awe inspiring adventure normally only experienced by a select few space tourists. From the moment they arrive, they will start the illusion that they are departing for a journey into space and throughout this journey will be entertained by attractions for all to enjoy from educational interactive displays and simulations to the wildest roller coasters for the true thrill seeker.

Raoul Katovsky, SpacePortLeisure’s Global Executive Chairman [far left], and Hans Deuze, SpacePortLeisure’s CEO [Acting] Location Based Entertainment [far right] together with [from left to right in the center] Paul Stéphane Allegrini, International Leisure Development’s Executive Director and Christian Colus, Regional Sales Manager Aristrocrat Technologies Europe, after signing the SpacePortGranScala Agreement in Zaragoza, Spain on December 12, 2007.

 

[From left to right] Raoul Katovsky, SpacePortLeisure’s Global Executive Chairman, and Hans Deuze, SpacePortLeisure’s CEO [Acting] Location Based Entertainment together with Alex Lemmens, Director, Project Development Europe, BRC Imagination Arts, Inc. at the December 12, 2007 Launch of SpacePortGranScala in Zaragoza, Spain.