GOLDEN PONY® AWARDS - ITALY 2024

The latest edition of the Golden Pony® Awards shined a spotlight on 9 outstanding leisure facilities
from around the world.
The 26th Golden Pony® Awards ceremony took place last October 22 in Italy. Established in 2002 by Facto Edizioni, publishers of the ‘Games & Parks Industry’ magazine, the award is meant to recognize excellence among leisure operators all over the world, like amusement & theme parks, traveling showmen, FECs, suppliers and relevant figures. It rewards greatness and an ability to stand out that, according to the magazine’s vision and the expert commission that helps in candidate’s selection, does not show only in terms of figures (like annual attendance or investments), but also in terms of skills and of stories that give extraordinary value also to venues that are less known on the global stage.
The Golden Pony® Award has been given to over 390 facilities and personalities from more than 50 countries so far.
For the fifth time in its history, the awards ceremony was part of the ‘Meeting della Giostra’ (Rides Meeting), an annual event that takes buyers from all over the world into direct contact with the companies from the so-called Italian Rides District, the cradle of the rides industry in Italy, an area in the south of the Veneto region centered around the towns of Bergantino, Calto and Melara, in the province of Rovigo.