What Leisure Development Partners does

Leisure Development Partners (LDP) is a privately-held UK consultancy providing economic feasibility, enhancement strategy, and due diligence services to the global visitor attractions, leisure, culture, and tourism real estate sectors. Founded in 2009 by Michael Collins and Yael Coifman, the firm operates as Leisure Development Partners LLP with headquarters in London and a regional office in Philadelphia, delivering projects across more than 80 countries. Its core service lines cover viability assessment for new attractions, performance optimization for existing destinations, and independent evaluation for sales, acquisitions, and investment decisions, with banking-grade attendance and revenue forecasts that the firm claims fall within realized outcomes 90% of the time.

LDP's core technology is its proprietary in-house data set accumulated across hundreds of feasibility engagements since 2008, which underwrites its forecasting methodology and forms the basis of its differentiator against generalist management consultancies. The firm complements consulting work with industry intelligence products including the jointly published Global Attractions Market Report (with Experience UK) and The Experience Economist insights series. Its customer base is exclusively enterprise, spanning sovereign-backed mega-destinations (Qiddiya, NEOM, Miral), global theme park operators (Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, PortAventura, Liseberg, KidZania), cultural institutions (Titanic Belfast, Madame Tussauds, Historic Royal Palaces), and brand-led experiences (Ferrari, teamLab, DreamPlay Manila).

Revenue is generated through bespoke, multi-year professional services engagements priced on project scope and complexity, with no standardized public pricing. The firm is privately owned by its founding and equity partners, has no institutional investors, has not raised external funding, and operates without a software or SaaS product line. Go-to-market is enterprise field sales supplemented by heavy event participation at IAAPA, TEA, MAPIC, and Blooloop events and content-led thought leadership across owned and earned channels.

Name

Leisure Development Partners

Legal name

Leisure Development Partners LLP

Website

https://leisuredevelopment.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Leisure Development Partners is a UK-based boutique consultancy providing economic feasibility, enhancement strategy, and due diligence services to enterprise clients in the global visitor attractions, leisure, culture, and tourism sectors, backed by proprietary in-house forecasting data built across hundreds of projects in 80+ countries since 2008.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Feasibility Analysis Consulting: LDP provides economic feasibility studies and analysis for new and existing visitor attractions, leisure facilities, and destinations. This includes market analysis, demand forecasting, programme optimization, and business case development.
2. Enhancement Strategy Services: Strategic consulting to enhance performance for established destinations in entertainment, culture and tourism sectors, including optimization, expansion planning, and revenue enhancement.
3. Due Diligence Services: Independent evaluation services for sales, acquisitions, and investment decisions, assessing current performance and future potential of attractions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Leisure Development Partners is a B2B consultancy delivering economic feasibility analysis, enhancement strategy, and due diligence services for visitor attractions, entertainment, culture, and tourism real estate. The firm provides market analysis, demand forecasting, programme optimization, and business case development to support investment and operational decisions across the global leisure industry.

Product overview

Leisure Development Partners (LDP) is a global consulting firm providing economic feasibility and strategy services for the visitor attractions, leisure, and entertainment industry. The company operates as a unified consultancy rather than a software platform, offering three core service lines: Feasibility Analysis (for assessing new project viability), Enhancement Strategy (for optimizing existing attractions), and Due Diligence (for investment decisions). Supporting these core services, LDP produces industry research publications including the annual Global Attractions Market Report (jointly with Experience UK) and The Experience Economist insights series. The firm is recognized for bankable forecasting accuracy, claiming 90% of realized attendance falls within their forecasts. LDP serves clients across 80+ countries, working with major entertainment operators, developers, and investors in the attractions sector.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Feasibility Analysis Comprehensive assessment of the viability of new ambitious visitor attraction, leisure, entertainment, and tourism real estate projects, including market and competition analysis, demand determination, programme optimisation, and business model forecasting to create bankable objective business cases. Designed for developers, operators, investors, and public sector organizations considering new attractions or destinations.
• Enhancement Strategy Performance enhancement services for established destinations in entertainment, culture, and tourism, covering optimisation and expansion, performance benchmarking, strategic growth planning, real estate expansion, and profit and ROI enhancement. Aimed at existing operators seeking to maximise performance, plan expansions, or reposition their assets.
• Due Diligence Independent evaluation of value and future potential for sales, acquisitions, and investment decisions, including assessment of current performance against real benchmarks, value enhancement strategies, future performance evaluation, and independent business case development. Targeted at investors, private equity groups, and operators evaluating leisure asset transactions.
• Feasibility Analysis - Hotel & Accommodation Specialized feasibility analysis for hotels and on-site accommodation, including themed hotels, integrated within attractions and destinations. Designed for hotel developers and theme park operators considering integrated accommodation assets.
• LDP Global Attractions Market Report Annual industry research report published in partnership with Experience UK, providing market-by-market analysis of current conditions across major global attractions markets, region by region.
• The Experience Economist Regular industry insights publication providing market analysis, trends, and expert commentary on attractions economics, available as a newsletter subscription and back issues for leisure industry professionals.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% of realized attendance falls within LDP forecasts
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Experience UKcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2026LDP joined forces with Experience UK to release the Global Attractions Market Report 2026, exploring major global markets region by region and providing essential insights into current market conditions for the attractions industry.
• BlooloopcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLDP launched an annual benchmarking survey in conjunction with Blooloop, allowing attractions to compare KPI performance against aggregated industry data. Results published through Blooloop's industry coverage.
• MAPIC / LeisureUpcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerLDP serves as content partner for MAPIC Leisure Day and has published joint whitepapers on retailtainment and the evolving relationship of leisure and retail. Yael Coifman serves as Master of Ceremonies for LeisurUp during MAPIC.
• Themed Entertainment Association (TEA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLDP partners hold leadership positions including Yael Coifman as President of TEA Europe and Middle East Board and re-elected to TEA International Board. LDP participates in TEA SATE Europe conferences.
• IAAPAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLDP maintains extensive involvement with IAAPA including Michael Collins on Global Board of Directors, Hall of Fame Committee Chair, and EMEA Advisory Board. The firm sponsors IAAPA Expos and lounges globally and participates in education programs.
• Imagine LeisureminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLDP collaborated with Imagine Leisure to realise tourism potential in Vaals at the intersection of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Forrec: Theme park and attraction design firm offering master planning, concept development, and feasibility for theme parks, water parks, and entertainment venues. Comparable to LDP's attractions feasibility and design-adjacent work.
• HVS Global Hospitality Services: Specialized hospitality consulting firm providing hotel, leisure, and tourism feasibility, valuation, and strategy services globally. Highly comparable to LDP's hotel and accommodation feasibility work, with deeper hotel focus and broader geographic reach.
• PGAV Destinations: Theme park and attraction design and consulting firm providing master planning, feasibility, and strategic advisory for theme parks, museums, water parks, and entertainment destinations. Direct overlap with LDP's theme park and attractions work.
• Thinkwell Group: Theme park and destination planning firm providing strategy, feasibility, master planning, and design for entertainment venues, museums, and attractions. Closely comparable to LDP's strategic feasibility work for theme parks and mixed-use destinations.
• White Hutchinson: Family entertainment center and entertainment venue design and consulting firm. Direct overlap with LDP's LBE and FEC consulting segment, with similar specialty focus on smaller-format leisure venues and restaurants.
• Imagine Leisure: Leisure and tourism development consultancy named in LDP's source data as a partner on the Vaals cross-border tourism project in the Netherlands-Belgium-Germany tri-border area. A small, specialized European peer with comparable focus on tourism and leisure development.

Broad incumbents

• Cumming Group: Construction consultancy with a leisure and attractions practice providing cost management, project management, and feasibility services. Comparable in serving attractions developers but with a construction-cost orientation rather than economics-led feasibility.
• JLL Hotels & Hospitality: Major real estate services firm with a dedicated hotels and hospitality group providing investment advisory, feasibility, and consulting for hotel and mixed-use leisure assets. Overlaps with LDP's hotel and mixed-use destination work but at a much larger scale.
• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm whose Economics practice (formerly Economics Research Associates, where LDP's James Kennard previously worked) provides economic feasibility and strategy for attractions, tourism, and mixed-use developments. AECOM offers integrated services but is much larger and broader than LDP.
• KPMG (Travel, Leisure & Hospitality): Big 4 advisory firm with a global travel, leisure, and hospitality practice providing strategy, deal advisory, and consulting for operators, developers, and investors. Competes for larger enterprise engagements that LDP may bid on, with deeper resources but less specialized leisure focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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