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After astir a decennary since signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tamil Nadu government, Wonderla Holidays—a renowned amusement parkland chain—has formally announced the motorboat of Wonderla Chennai. This is the company’s 5th parkland and spans 64.30 acre—37 acre of which are already developed— on Chennai’s Old Mahabalipuram Road, and has been built astatine an concern of much than ₹611 crore. The parkland volition be officially inaugurated connected December 1, 2025 by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and will open to nationalist connected December 2, 2025. Wonderla Chennai is projected to make much than 1,000 nonstop and indirect jobs.
The MoU for this task was signed connected September 10, 2025 during the archetypal Global Investors Meet (GIM 2015) betwixt Wonderla Holidays Ltd and the Tamil Nadu Industrial Guidance and Export Promotion Bureau, operating nether the Industries department. In 2018, the amusement parkland relation said that it would scrap its concern plans successful the authorities if the authorities did not retreat the 10% section assemblage taxation (LBT). The institution astatine a property conscionable successful Chennai connected Tuesday said that they person present been granted a waiver connected the Local Body Tax (LBT) levied implicit and supra GST – for a fixed period.
Arun K Chittilappilly, Executive Chairman and Managing Director, Wonderla Holidays said, “We wanted Wonderla Chennai to genuinely beryllium to the radical of Tamil Nadu, to bespeak their creativity, culture, and warmth. Every country of the parkland tells that story, from its temple-inspired plan to its authentic section flavours. This motorboat not lone marks our beingness crossed each of South India, but besides reflects our heavy appreciation for Tamil Nadu’s progressive imaginativeness for tourism and infrastructure.”
To a query connected whether Gen Z are keen connected amusement parks, Dheeran Choudhary, COO, Wonderla Holidays said that they represent 35-40% of footfalls. He past added: “Every facet of the park; from thrust operations and impermanent services to hygiene and assemblage management, has been planned with precision to present a seamless experience.” The duo besides said: 20-25% of radical who travel to our parks successful Kochi and Bangalore hail from Tamil Nadu.
The Chennai installation has 43 rides including 9 precocious thrill onshore rides, 10 household rides, 16 h2o rides and 8 kids rides. Most rides were manufactured successful Europe.The radical has 4 parks crossed India – Kochi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar.
