2023’s Industry Report Survey shows a significant jump in the number of respondents who have plans to add features at
their facilities over the next few years. In 2023, 46.6% said they had such plans, up from 39.1% in 2022, and 37.1% in 2021.
The greatest increase from 2021 to 2022 in the number of respondents planning to add features at their facilities was found among rec center respondents. More than half of rec center respondents in 2023 (56.6%) said they had plans to add features at their facilities, an increase of 23 percentage points. The next largest jump was reported by school respondents, 38.5% of whom had plans in 2023 to add features at their facilities, an increase of 14.7 percentage points over 2022. Parks were the most likely to have plans in 2023 to add features at their facilities over the next three years, with 62.6% indicating they had such plans, up 9.2 percentage points from 2022.
The top planned addition? Splash play. More than one-fifth of respondents with plans to make additions at their facilities said they would be adding splash play.
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