First Discovery Adventure Park opens in Andaman Moganshan

SHANGHAI - Discovery Consumer Products, the licensing arm of Discovery Communications, announced a partnership with APAX Group, and had the commencement ceremony for the first-ever Discovery Adventures Andaman Moganshan Park (hereinafter referred as: Discovery Adventures Park) and Discovery Destinations Hotel, located in Andaman Moganshan Resort, China. APAX Group, as the developer of Discovery Adventures Park in Moganshan, cooperating with Discovery Communications and Regalia Hotel Group will establish the adventure destination integrating extreme sports, tourism, and vacation, to provide world first-class outdoor survival and adventure training experience.

Discovery Adventures Park, located in Andaman Moganshan Resort, Deqing county, Huzhou city, Zhejiang province, covers approximately 1,000,000 square meters space, surrounded by mountains and water with a breadth of natural resources. The new adventure destination will provide innovative programs, as well as certificated courses and trainers from around the world. Opening in 2015 fourth quarter, Discovery Adventures Parkwill focus on private and corporate team building events, followed by a grand opening for general admissions for individuals, groups and families in spring 2016. The adventure park will feature an array of multiple level outdoor survival skills training programs: China's biggest rock climbing wall, zip-lines, ATVtours, mountain bike courses, hiking routes, obstacle challenges and more. Discovery Adventures Park will provide 5-star accommodations to guests. Designed to bring the beauty of the outdoors into guests' living space, the hotel rooms will feature Discovery content available on each TV.

"The breathtaking views and landscape of AndamanMoganshan Resort makes it an ideal destination for the first-ever Discovery Adventures branded park and the activities guests will enjoy are a true reflection of Discovery's core DNA – adventure, exploration and curiosity," said Mr. Nicolas Bonard, Senior Vice President of The Studios Group, Discovery Communications."Both the Discovery AdventuresPark and Discovery Destinations Hotel accommodations will provide visitors with a unique, once-in-a-lifetime experience and I am confident that APAX Group in conjunction with AndamanMoganshan Resort is the perfect partner to bring this vision to life."

Mr. Terence Chu, Managing Director of APAX Group said,"Discovery Adventures Park holds all the aces-right time, right people and right place. Talking of right time, under the background of government continuously strengthening efforts to support sports industry, APAX Group brings Discovery to China and develops the first-ever Discovery Adventures Park. Right Place is due to the cooperation with Regalia Hotel Group, who offered the perfect location, where is the largest resort in Moganshan. In terms of Right People, we followed the spirit of people-centered, because human resources means everything to any enterprise. What we always keep in mind is the idea of "people-oriented", human is the most valuable resource in the world. The planning lies with man. We want everyone in this team can unleash their excellent potential in the work field. Through the world-class standard facilities we equipped, the most professional trainers we invited, the inspiring challenge courses we innovated, we could reach the purpose as we mentioned above, inspire people to realize their valuable potential."

"Regalia Hotel Group contributes to develop an international vacation destination, by working with global famous brands to improve the standards of national vacation industry. This time, the crossover cooperation with Discovery is a challenge, because it integrates vacation and extreme sports, and look sports as a part of leisure," CEO of Regalia Hotel Group, Mr. Eric Chung said.

Discovery Adventures Park aims at developing international outdoor training standard, and creating the world-class survival and outdoor adventure training experience to urge the rapid development of China's outdoor extreme industry. Also, this new vacation mode will become the new growth point of Zhejiang province economy transformation and upgrading, and spur the development of Yangtze River delta region's tourism industry.

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