{"id":195834,"date":"2023-11-13T19:09:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=195834"},"modified":"2023-11-13T19:09:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T19:09:16","slug":"abandoned-spanish-themepark-loved-by-brits-could-finally-re-open-after-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/abandoned-spanish-themepark-loved-by-brits-could-finally-re-open-after-3-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Spanish themepark ‘loved by Brits’ could finally re-open after 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

An abandoned Spanish theme park popular with British holidaymakers could be set to re-open three years after unceremoniously shutting its doors . . . while keeping staff in bizarre contract prison.<\/p>\n

For nearly 50 years, sun-hungry Brits flocked to Benalmadena in the Costa Del Sol with the hopes of spending some time at the historic Tivoli World theme park. But the site was closed in 2020, becoming one of the most high-profile casualties of the economy-destroying pandemic.<\/p>\n

It briefly reopened for two months, but closed again last year when its owners went bankrupt. A battle over the site's future ended up in court, after it emerged that a bizarre legal loophole meant the staff were unable to seek employment without being paid by their current job, and were forced to attend the site every day to keep it in decent condition.<\/p>\n

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This sparked daily protests by the staff, and reports that they were keeping the site in pristine condition in anticipation of it reopening once more. And after the Daily Star visited the site earlier this year to shed some light on the realities of life inside the derelict theme park, hopes of new investment from a foreign fund appears to be on the horizon.<\/p>\n

According to Spanish news site SUR, the Deputy Mayor of Benalmadema, Presi Aguilera has claimed that a foreign investment fund is \u201cvery interested\u201d in buying the park and re-opening it, with talks ongoing between the town council, the mystery fund and current owners Grupo Trem\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

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