ORLANDO, Fla. — SeaWorld’s first theme park outside the United States, SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, will open in the United Arab Emirates next year with six marine environments, five floors of indoor attractions and no killer whales.
John Linn, SeaWorld’s vice president of global theme park development, said the park is the culmination of over 50 years of SeaWorld’s theme park experience and will include “all the cool things we wanted to do that we never got the approval to.”
“We’re not going to have to work very hard at all to differentiate ourselves (from similar attractions),” Linn said. “Frankly, the problem I’m going to have personally is how to explain to our board that this phenomenal product that we have in the Middle East — why aren’t we doing that in the United States?”
