Ripley Entertainment
Ripley Entertainment is the largest and fastest-growing international chain of museum-type tourist attractions in the world.
Introduction
An acknowledged trendsetter in the development of family entertainment, Ripley Entertainment Inc. owns, operates and franchises over a dozen varieties of exciting attractions, including, world-class aquariums, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! odditoriums, Guinness World Records attractions and Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks.
Ripley Entertainment of Orlando, Fl., delights and astounds the world with more than 80 exciting attractions in eleven countries, bestselling books, a live-action network television series in global syndication and the classic world famous Believe It or Not! cartoon, started by cartoonist and adventurer Robert Ripley in 1918. The entertainment company that the cartoon inspired is the #1 small tourist attractions company in the world and is still growing.
More Fun in More Places
2011 promises to be another busy and exciting year for Ripley Entertainment Inc. with a brand new Believe It or Not! odditorium opening in Jeju Island, Korea, a new Ripley’s Marvelous Mirror Maze and Candy Factory opening in Myrtle Beach, SC, and an exciting new temporary exhibit “Sharks” at the Ripley's Aquarium in Myrtle Beach. Major renovations to Believe It or Not! attractions are planned for Orlando and Hollywood, as well as significant lobby and gallery renovations in several other locations. In addition, a brand new con-cept is under development for the Guinness World Records museum chain, and new aquariums are being planned, including a new state of the art, world class aquarium in Toronto, Canada.
The company’s two existing aquariums, Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies, in the Tennessee resort town of Gatlinburg, and Ripley’s Aquarium in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina are celebrations of the world’s rarest, most beautiful and awesome sea life. In each location an underwater acrylic tunnel takes visitors through a million gallons of water on a 320 foot moving glide-path to view moray eels, sawfish, stingrays and giant sharks. Both locations boast more than a million visitors a year, are consistently ranked in the Top Ten Aquariums in North America by “TripAdvisor.com”, and are repeat winners of prestigious local and state awards. In 2010 Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies added a new $5 million dollar exhibit – Ripley’s Penguin Playhouse, our first-indoor-outdoor display – complete with crawl-through acrylic tunnels and pop-ups that bring our guests nose to nose with our penguins.