ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Skip the Queue is for visitor attraction owners, directors and suppliers who want to improve their organisations and deliver a better experience for their guests. Each episode we speak with inspiring industry experts who share their knowledge of what really makes an attraction successful.
This podcast is brought to you by Merac. We're here to help attractions unlock growth with innovative solutions, expert insights, and customer-first strategies.
This podcast is brought to you by Merac. We're here to help attractions unlock growth with innovative solutions, expert insights, and customer-first strategies.
Update frequency:
semiweekly
Average audio length:
41 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United Kingdom
180 episodes
since July 19, 2019
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~95.79% of listeners are from United States.
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GB
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode of Skip the Queue, Andy Povey is joined by Cassie Poland, Joint Managing Director of Drusillas Park in East Sussex.
Drusillas started life in the 1920s as a tea cottage where motorists could stop on their way through the Downs. A hundred years on it's a zoo and a ride park on the sa…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
In this episode of Skip the Queue, Laura Baxter is joined by Richard Mancey, Owner and Managing Director of Paultons Park in Hampshire.
Paultons opened in 1983 as a country park and bird gardens, founded by Richard's parents John and Anne. Forty years on it covers 140 acres, and the introduct…
In this episode of Skip the Queue, Andy Povey is joined by Anna Warnecke, CEO of Kynren in Bishop Auckland - an attraction that doesn't really look like anything else in the UK.
Kynren began in 2016 as an open-air night show telling 2,000 years of English history on a seven-and-a-half-acre stage, p…
In this episode of Skip the Queue, Andy Povey is joined by Eddie Kemsley, CEO of Dreamland in Margate – one of the oldest surviving amusement park in the country, and one of the most reinvented.
Dreamland dates back to 1880. It closed in 2003, and reopened in 2015 as a vintage amusement park. Since…
In this episode of Skip the Queue, Laura Baxter is joined by Julie Dalton, managing director of Gulliver's Theme Park Resorts - and the head of what is, remarkably, the only multi-site theme park brand in this country that isn't owned by a corporate.
Gulliver's began in 1978 as a model village on a…
In this episode of Skip the Queue, Laura Baxter is joined by Gary Smart, chairman of Harbour Park in Littlehampton and a man who has spent his entire working life in this industry.
The park opened in 1932, built by Billy Butlin on the site of an old fort and windmill. In 1977 it was bought by the B…
In this special episode of Skip the Queue, Laura Baxter is joined by our guest, Debs Griffin, Director of Sundown Adventureland in Rampton, Nottinghamshire.
This year, BALPPA turns 90. Our guest today runs a park that turns 58. Between them, that’s close to a century and a half of British attractio…
To celebrate 90 years of BALPPA, Andy Povey and Laura Baxter are joined by Paul Kelly, Chief Executive of BALPPA, for a look at the organisation’s history, its role in the attractions industry today and what the next 90 years could look like.
With more than 30 years working across the attractions s…
For the next few weeks, we’re teaming up with BALPPA to celebrate a very special milestone - 90 years of the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions.
To mark the occasion, we’re going behind the scenes with some of the people who have helped shape the UK attractions industry, he…
In this special episode of Skip the Queue, Andy Povey is back in Blackpool for the UK Theme Park Awards, speaking to some of the people and businesses recognised for delivering some of the best work in the UK attractions industry.
But this episode isn’t just about celebrating the winners.&nbs…
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