Zemp also felt there was a lack of life in the park.
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SWI Plus informs you about Switzerland and the world. It lacked life and interaction." At the beginning Imboden had advised that at least a third of the park's exhibition should be changeable, a strategy that might have encouraged people to make return visits. "It seemed a bad realisation of von Däniken's ideas. "Von Däniken was unable to put into place what he'd really wanted," Thomas Vaszary, a lecturer at Lucerne's tourism college, told swissinfo. As the banks declined to provide money, the finances came from a group of private investors and the public who bought shares at a low par value despite the troubles at the stock exchange. "What was more important – entertainment, focusing on the UFO element of the hard core of von Däniken followers, or learning and education aspects?" After critical financial questions, the park opened its doors in May 2003. "The marketing segment to target was not systematically approached at the outset," Zemp said. A similar assessment comes from the current director, Fritz Zemp, who has been at the mystery park since April 2005. The much-lauded Swiss quality of life has a dark side - namely levels of consumerism and convenience that jack up the national carbon footprint.īut Hannes Imboden, the former Bernese Oberland tourism director, said the communications department of the Mystery Park did not correct the one-sided UFO image that most people have of von Däniken. Swiss CO2 emissions: Small country, big footprint As an international personality and mystery expert whose books have been translated into numerous languages, von Däniken appeared to be a guarantee that the park would be managed professionally. Best-selling Swiss author Erich von Däniken announced he wanted to open a theme park devoted to unsolved (extra-)terrestrial mysteries on the site of the former local military airport.
It all began in 1997 with ambitious plans.
The criticism stepped up in 2005 and was particularly heavy in the spring of 2006 when the park had to ask for a delay in bankruptcy proceedings and protection from its creditors.
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"Mystery Park needs extraterrestrial saviour" and "Career dreamer Erich von Däniken pulls back" were just two of the sarcastic headlines journalists made in a long series of negative reports. They argue that the main reasons for the closure are the static nature of the exhibition, the slow involvement of local tourism and the stock exchange decline between 20. This content was published on Novem00:01 Novem00:01 The demise of the Mystery Park in the Bernese Oberland resort of Interlaken, which closed on Sunday, is no enigma but the result of bad decisions, experts say. Mega stones were on exhibition at the park in June this year Keystone
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