Gardaland Resort is preparing for the reopening, which will take place on 2 April, and is launching a recruiting campaign for a thousand employees. A first tranche of about 500 people will be hired with a fixed-term contract over the next few weeks and will be employed in the three four-star hotels of the resort and in the various thematic areas of the amusement park on Lake Garda. In June, with the start of the summer season, another 500 workers are expected to enter.
Vigevani: confident about next season
“We look confidently to the 2022 season: in addition to the 230 permanent workers we plan to hire 500 people for the start of the season which will then increase over the course of the year” explains Aldo Maria Vigevani, CEO of Gardaland, a company that headed by the Merlin Entertainments group purchased by Lego for 6.6 billion in 2019.
From catering to controlling attractions
The professional figures sought at this time range from catering staff to cooks and assistant cooks for the various restaurants in the park, waiters and cashiers, employees who take care of the welfare of the animals present in the various tanks of the Sea Life Aquarium, staff for the control of the attractions, ending with the ticket office, information points and shops as well as the security team who will ensure the surveillance and surveillance service inside the resort. For the hotel part, front desk staff, qualified cooks and kitchen commis, waiters and bartenders are required. Gardaland offers contracts that can be full time or part time depending on the insertion sector, with an expected duration between March and mid-September and the possibility of renewal until January 2023, according to the opening calendar of the resort.
Attraction Jumanji The adventure
This year the park is focusing on Jumanji The Adventure, the world‘s first Jumanji-themed attraction, based on the Sony Pictures film saga. “With an investment of 20 million, an attraction has been created that will excite families and teenagers” underlines the CEO.
2021 season: slow start but good results
As for 2021, Vigevani is overall satisfied with the results obtained. «The season started a couple of months later than planned and had a slow start – explains the CEO -. At the end of the summer, the park had 90% of the admissions we recorded in 2019 ». Last year, for the first time, it was decided to continue the season even after Halloween and Gardaland remained open also during the Christmas period. “We detected a good response from our visitors and a good influx, thus making up for the non-opening of Gardaland Magic Winter 2020” concludes Vigevani.