Hospitality, Resorts, Tourist & Other Attractions
 Families are a significant market for most resorts and tourist attractions. By its very definition, family means children. Our studies have shown that at most resorts and attractions, the vast majority of children visiting with families are 12 years old or younger.
The
White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group has an experienced
child- and family oriented, multi-disciplinary group of professionals
who work as a team to design and oversee the development of high
quality and successful family and children's leisure and learning
environments.
Designing a quality and culturally appropriate environment
for families and their children is a highly complex, specialized and unique
skill. The physical environment; including its atmospherics, layout, equipment
and furnishings; and the management of the facility has a profound impact
on families' and children's fun, learning and behavior. Children of different
ages have unique needs and interests. Parents needs must also be met.
We understand the importance of having the design of the entire environment,
including the building, equipment and it management, assist and support,
rather than impede, children's fun, parents' needs and enjoyment and staff's
abilities to accomplish their jobs.
With our focus and extensive experience in developing market
strategies and designing leisure, entertainment, play and learning or enrichment
facilities for families and children, the White Hutchinson Leisure & Learning
Group has the specialized expertise to assist resorts, tourist and other attractions
with evaluating their family friendliness and developing strategies and designing
renovations and additional facilities to appeal to this important family market.
Our experience includes:
 Story Stores, Inc.
Assisting Story Stores with concept development, attendance and financial projections and design of their innovative RoadStoryUSA for-profit museum concept that combines playing, learning, retail, a restaurant and birthday party and group meeting facilities in a single venue facility.
Al Ghariyan Resort, Qatar
Conducted evaluation and developed concept plan for renovationa and expansion of this seaside resort in the northeast part of Qatar.
Nemacolin Woodlands Resort – Farmington, Pennsylvania
  
Prepared concept plans to convert a former 48,000 square foot retail store at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in Western Pennsylvania into a multi-generational eatertainment complex that will include a micro-brewery; restaurant; bowling and billiards lounge; family entertainment center that includes a game area, Ballocity, mini-bowling, laser tag, rock climbing, ice skating and laser tag; a private party area and an indoor-outdoor children’s play and discovery center. The project is being designed to not only extend the resort’s offerings for its guests, but to also capture business from area tourists and residents.
Knuckleheads, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Developed mix and prepared preliminary plans for the 130,000 square foot indoor Knuckleheads eatertainment facility in the Wisconsin Dells tourist area that include Buffalo Phils Grille Tex-Mex sit-down casual restaurant and a bowling and family entertainment center that includes indoor go-karts, bowling, a fast casual cafe, simulation theater, rides and games.
Doha, Qatar family leisure center
  
Completed a market and economic feasibility study and master plan and design concepts for development of an 80,000 square meter family leisure project targeted to Qataris and Gulf Arabs that includes retail, restaurants, aqua park (water park) resort, cinemas and theater, family entertainment, children's edutainment, ladies club and spa, teenage girls club and a children's enrichment center.
Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina
 
Boone
Hall Plantation dates from a series of land grants going back to from
1681 and was originally part of a plantation that covered over 17,000 acres
(26 square miles). Many of its buildings are listed on the National Register
of Historic Places. Boone Hall Plantation is unique as it is the
only remaining Low Country plantation that remains commercially productive.
It has been continuously growing and producing crops for over 320 years and
was once known for cotton and as the world's largest producer of pecans. Today
it offers a Farm's Market and U-Pick fields filled with peaches, strawberries,
tomatoes and pumpkins. Boone Hall Plantation has the only "slave
street" still intact in the Southeast with nine brick slave cabins, circa
1790-1810.
Huge
Spanish live oak trees, planted over 250 years ago, line the half-mile entrance
to the plantation, which was the model for the grounds of Tara in Gone
With the Wind. Boone Hall Plantation's cotton-gin house was
used in the made-for-television movies North and South.
The private owners of Boone Hall Plantation have retained the White
Hutchinson Leisure & Learning Group to evaluate feasibility and recommend
additional agritainment (agri-tourism) attractions, activities and programs
that can be incorporated into its operating farm.
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
This popular living farm destination has retained White Hutchison to conduct
a family-friendly audit and assist them in developing strategies, exhibits
and programs to increase family appeal.
Holiday Inn Family Suites Resort, Orlando, Florida
 This cutting edge, family resort facility that opened January 2000 at Lake Buena Vista, just one mile from Walt Disney World in Orlando, has retained White Hutchinson to conduct a family and child-friendly audit and to assist them with expansion and renovation plans. The resort is the world's first and still only all suites Holiday Inn Resort. It features 800 two and three bedroom themed family suites. There are five different types of suites designed to meet the needs of different markets:
- 2-Bedroom Kidsuites with fun, colorful theming and separate space and entertainment areas for parents and kids.
- CinemaSuites which feature a separate home theatre room complete with a 60" television and surround-sound system.
- Classic Two-Bedroom Suites for families with older children.
- SweetHeart Suites designed with romance in mind.
- Residential Suites designed for extended stays with full-service kitchens.
To learn more about our family friendly audits, click here.
Fortune Bay Resort & Casino, Tower, Minnesota
 WHLLG
was retained by this Vermilion Lakes area resort, owned by this Bois Forte
Band of Chippewa, to conduct a feasibility study on development of a free-standing
family entertainment center.
Fallsway Resort Complex, Niagara
Falls, Canada
 WHLLG
was hired by the owner of a 31 acre resort that includes 455 rooms on
Clifton Hill, the heart of the tourist area adjoining Niagara Falls, to
help them evaluate feasibility, develop an overall brand identity and
master plan for the property and develop a themed 85,000 SF location-based
entertainment center that will include a state-of-the art 3-D simulation
theatre along with other anchors and 150 games with an adjoining outdoor
family entertainment area and a 2nd level 240 seat adult entertainment
restaurant.
Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn and Lodge,
Michigan
 
The owners of this popular destination 1.5 hours north of Detroit selected
WHLLG to integrate entertainment into their new River Place project, a
90,000 sf European-styled retail village. Frankenmuth currently enjoys
over 1.5 million annual visitors. WHLLG completed a feasibility study
and developed preliminary plans for a 25,000 sf integrated EuroMarket
Bistro restaurant and family entertainment center for the project.
Davis' MegaMaze, Sterling, Massachusetts
WHLLG has an on-going relationship each year to serve as design and management consultants to this popular New England attraction.
NASA Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida
 WHLLG was recently retained to conduct a family friendly
audit of this popular Florida tourist attraction. Our work including
technical assistance on the design of the physical environment
and how it affects children and families, child safety issues,
appropriateness of exhibits and presentations for families and
children, use by visitors of other cultures and languages, and
recommendations for new facilities and activities to increase
the facility's appeal to families with children.
Lion Country Safari, West Palm Beach, FL
 North
America's oldest drive-through animal park features over 1200
wild animals roaming free in a natural drive through wildlife
preserve. A second area of the park is the walk-through Safari
World Village that includes rides, a petting zoo, restaurants
and gift shops. WHLLG conducted extensive market research and
facility evaluations and developed a master schematic plan for
the Village's theming, renovation and expansion. WHLLG is currently
completing construction documentation for the $4.0 million, 1st
phase of renovation which will include a one acre adventure play
garden that will accommodate over 400 children and their parents,
a birthday/celebration center and retheming of the entire Village.
Colossal Cave Mountain Park, Vail, AZ
WHLLG was retained for strategic and master planning
for expansion of this 5,000 acre park and tourist attraction with
a desert- and historic-based interpretive museum and interactive
learning center to educate children and their families about preservation
of the Arizona ecosystem, including the history and practice of
environmentally responsible ranching.
Happy Hampton, Hampton Beach, NH
 WHLLG
is currently working with this established 11,000 square foot boardwalk
game facility to develop plans to expand it to 40,000 square feet as a
year round visitor and resident family entertainment attractions.
Sun Mountain Sports, Bend, OR
Conducted
feasibility study and developed plans for expansion of an existing
bowling center to become an indoor and outdoor family entertainment
center to attract both the winter skiers and summer campers at
this popular Oregon tourist destination area.
Lady Luck Casino, Betterdorf, IO
Conducted evaluation of market and facility for addition
of entertainment components to this casino and shopping complex.
Concord Hotel, Sullivan County, NY
WHLLG is serving as consultants to the new owners of
this 1,200 unit resort on renovations to include a major family
entertainment and enrichment center.
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