Paramount Pictures has chosen the region of Murcia as a potential European location for the construction of a giant theme park to compete with Disneyland Paris.
 
Minister of Culture, Pedro Cruz and President of the Murcia region, Ramon Luis Valcarcel, have been in discussions with Michael Bartok, Executive Vice President of the licensing division of Paramount Pictures. The pair recently returned from a visit to Dubai with news that feasibility studies would be underway to consider a massive them park project in the region of Murcia.
 
Cruz said that the Region of Murcia will become the “centre of leisure for Spain” with a complex of 2.5 square kilometres, creating 20,000 jobs and providing an additional three million tourist visitors to Spain. The project will need 15,000 hotel rooms and investment plans will be considered in the coming months. The regional Government and the Ruwaad holding company, that represent Paramount in the construction of theme parks, will be looking for investment partners to make the project a reality. Executives and technicians of Ruwaad will move to the Region of Murcia in the coming months to undertake the study.
 
Paramount Pictures has produced a string of Hollywood blockbuster films in recent years including Indiana Jones, Titanic, Tomb Raider, Mission Impossible, Transformers, Star Trek and Shrek.
 
Michael Bartok and Ruwaad Holdings CEO Hayan Merchant are understood to favour the region of Murcia because of it's climatic attractions, over and above other regions including Catalunya  and Andalucia, both of which have been considered for the project.
 
Murcia is considered to be ideal due to the location of the new Corvera Airport, recently completed motorway links, the new high speed rail lines currently under construction and the fact that the region is the warmest in Spain, with an average 300 days of sunshine a year.
 
Such an investment in the region will be a massive boost for property owners at Polaris World who have bought second homes in the region and for the golf resorts that have been built in Murcia in the last six years.

Source: PolarisWorld.info