How to make a billion

Build your own Theme Park

If you’ve already made your first billion and want any easy way to make the next one, build a theme park. First off you’ll need to pick a theme, obviously. Cartoons and movies seem to work well, so you might need to buy an established franchise to base your park on. Something like Mickey Mouse or Spiderman should work well, if they’re not already taken.

Next, pick a location. You’ll need plenty of space, but close enough to roads and an airport so that people can reach you. You might want to set up some dummy corporations to help buy up land or people could try to cash-in the the sudden land-grab. Theme parks also tend to work better in warmer locations so try to stay near the equator.

Once you’ve decided on the location and begun aquiring the land, you’ll need to start building your rides. Design and construction of your rides and facilites will account for over half of your billion dollar budget, so spend it wisely. This phase of the development should be left to experienced professionals, so try to find a company with a good reputation. Meanwhile, you can be busy with the final jobs like hiring staff and designing stupid uniforms for them to wear.

Once you’ve done all that, drop another $100m into marketing and wait for the visitors to pour in. Charge them $30 for a hamburger and $8 for a coke and you’ll make your money back in no time.

Although the figures have been adjusted to allow for inflation, this is virtually the same method that Walt Disney followed when creating Walt Disney World Florida, which now has an estimated annual turnover of over $5 billion.

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