What Oltremare does

Oltremare is a 110,000 square-meter family theme park located in Riccione, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, inaugurated in June 2004 and acquired by the Costa Edutainment group in 2012. The park operates a hybrid entertainment-education (edutainment) model, combining live animal demonstrations — bottlenose dolphins in a 9 million liter Dolphin Lagoon across five communicating tanks, raptors, and parrots — with immersive themed attractions covering human evolution (Sapiens), the origin of the universe (Genesis 5D), speleology (Speleos), prehistoric lake-dwelling life (Village), and Ice Age storytelling (Planet Theatre). Supporting attractions include Canoe Adventure, an Adventure Park, Ulisse's Island water play, Kronosaurus paleontology, Pony's Area, a Discovery Delta wetland, an Alien Invasion biodiversity exhibit, and a 300 sqm MegaGame Land interactive gaming zone.

The business model is multi-stream and direct-to-consumer: dynamic-priced admission tickets (varying every 24 hours, free for children under 1 meter), a diverse F&B offering across nine branded outlets, six merchandise/souvenir locations, fee-based premium interactive programs (Dolphin Experience, Training Experience, Raptors Experience, and Notte con i Delfini overnight experience), photography services (€25 per dolphin photo), birthday party packages, school educational programs with a dedicated Scientific Didactic Department, parking, and combined ticket bundles with sister parks Aquafan, Italia in Miniatura, and Cattolica Aquarium. Distribution combines online ticketing (ticket.oltremare.org), on-site box office, the C-Way Park+Hotel platform for Riviera Romagnola tourism packages, and direct B2B school bookings.

The company holds an Italian Zoological Garden license (2016), is part of the EAZA and EAAM European zoo/aquarium associations via its parent group, and participates in multi-institutional cetacean research including the Metropolitan Dolphins Project since 2001 (extended to the Adriatic in 2024) and the Intercet platform with 25+ research institutions. Governance is anchored in Costa Edutainment S.p.A., an Italian private joint-stock company operating 12 facilities nationally and internationally, including the Genoa Aquarium, Cattolica Aquarium, Aquafan, Italia in Miniatura, and the Livorno Aquarium.

Name

Oltremare

Legal name

Costa Edutainment S.p.A.

Website

https://oltremare.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Oltremare is a 110,000 sqm edutainment theme park in Riccione, Italy, operated by Costa Edutainment S.p.A., serving families, school groups, and tourists with dolphin, raptor, and parrot exhibits alongside immersive attractions covering evolution, marine biology, and prehistoric life.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Riccione

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Admission Tickets: One-time admission fees for park entry including daily events, demonstrations, and most attractions. Dynamic pricing that varies every 24 hours.
2. Food and Beverage: Multiple restaurants and refreshment points including Caffè Pascucci, Capperi, Baraonda, Sottomare Snack, Osteria del Pesce, Hot D.O.C., La Piadineria, Pasta, Ulisse Snack. Revenue from on-site dining and catering services.
3. Merchandise and Souvenirs: Six shopping locations including The Big O (flagship store), Expo Photo, Ulisse Shop, Open Shop, Semidiversi, BabaLeo. Sales of branded merchandise, plush toys, clothing, and souvenirs.
4. Interactive Programs: Additional fee programs including Dolphin Experience, Training Experience, Raptors Experience, and Night with Dolphins. These premium experiences require separate booking and payment.
5. Photography Services: Souvenir photo services including dolphin photos (€25 per person) and photographer-captured images throughout the park.
6. Birthday Parties and Events: Celebration packages for children's birthdays within the park.
7. Parking: Adjacent parking lot at €5.00 per car, €10.00 for campers.
8. Combined Tickets and Packages: Bundle tickets with Aquafan, Italia in Miniatura, Cattolica Aquarium, and hotel packages through C-Way partner platform.
9. School Educational Programs: Guided tours and educational activities for schools with specialized rates and programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Oltremare is a 110,000 square meter family theme park in Riccione, Italy, combining entertainment with educational content focused on marine life, evolution, and environmental conservation. The park operates bottlenose dolphin, bird of prey, and parrot exhibits with live daily demonstrations, alongside immersive attractions such as 5D experiences, prehistoric village re-creations, and cave exploration. Revenue is generated through admission tickets, on-site food and beverage, merchandise, fee-based interactive programs (such as dolphin encounters and overnight experiences), combined multi-park ticketing, and hotel partnership vacation packages.

Product overview

Oltremare is a 110,000 square meter family theme park in Riccione, Italy, managed by Costa Edutainment S.p.A. The park operates on an attraction-plus-experiences model combining entertainment with educational content focused on nature, science, and marine life conservation. Core attractions include Dolphins World (featuring bottlenose dolphins in a 9-million-liter lagoon), Raptors World (birds of prey), and Parrots World, supplemented by immersive experiences like Sapiens (human evolution), Genesis (5D universe journey), Planet Theatre (Ice Age theater), Village (prehistoric lake dwellings), and Speleos (cave exploration). Additional attractions include Canoe Adventure, Farm, Adventure Park, Ulisse's Island, Kronosaurus (paleontology), Pony's Area, Painting Rock, Discovery Delta (wetland ecosystem), Alien Invasion (biodiversity), and MegaGame Land (interactive game area with YouTuber DinsiemE). The park offers fee-based interactive programs including Notte con i Delfini (overnight dolphin experience), Dolphin Experience, Training Experience, and Raptors Experience. Supporting services include Digital Audio Guide (multilingual), birthday party packages, school educational programs with scientific department, combined tickets with partner parks (Aquafan, Italia in Miniatura, Cattolica Aquarium), and C-Way vacation packages combining park and hotel stays. The conservation-focused mission includes the Save a Species program supporting endangered species protection.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Genesis: Multi-sensory journey through the evolution of the Universe
• Planet Theatre
• Speleos
• Sapiens
• Village
• Dolphins World
• Raptors World
• Parrots World
• MegaGame Land

Products and services

• Dolphins World Main dolphin exhibit featuring bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) with daily demonstrations, interactive programs, and conservation education. Includes the Dolphin Lagoon with 9 million litres of salt water across five communicating tanks.
• Raptors World Bird of prey exhibit featuring falconry demonstrations, owl displays (The Owl Mill), and flight shows. Part of the live animal demonstrations program.
• Parrots World Parrot exhibit featuring colorful bird performances titled 'Il Volo dell'Arcobaleno' (The Flight of the Rainbow) with daily demonstrations.
• Sapiens Epic adventure attraction exploring human evolution through caves, hominids, and prehistoric animals. Features the Origins Gallery, Transvaal Caves, Garden of Evolution, MegaFauna, Giant Reptiles, and scientific debate exhibits.
• Genesis Immersive 5D experience journey through the universe and creation, featuring multisensory effects including sound, touch, and smell.
• Planet Theatre Multisensory theater experience recreating the Ice Age with special effects, featuring loud noises and immersive storytelling.
• Village Interactive attraction featuring stilt houses (palafitte) offering experiences based on prehistoric lake-dwelling communities.
• Speleos Cave exploration attraction featuring speleology experiences, cave environments, Norbert Casteret exhibit, Grottoes of Montespan, and rock art displays.
• Notte con i Delfini Overnight experience with dolphins where participants enjoy exclusive evening access to Dolphins World with educational presentations and dolphin interactions.
• Dolphin Experience Hour-long interactive program with trainers and biologists for dolphin observation and learning about marine mammal management.
• Training Experience Behind-the-scenes experience with dolphin trainers learning about animal care and training techniques.
• Raptors Experience Interactive program with birds of prey featuring falconry demonstrations and close encounters with raptors.
• School Programs Scientific Department offering guided visits and educational activities for kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools covering science, evolution, biodiversity, climate change, and nature topics.
• Birthday Parties Celebration packages for children's birthdays within the Family Experience Park featuring themed entertainment and dining options.
• Combined Tickets Discounted multi-park tickets combining entry to Oltremare with Aquafan, Italia in Miniatura, and Cattolica Aquarium, valid across different days within seasonal periods.
• C-Way Park + Hotel Vacation package combining park entry with partner hotel accommodations in the Romagna Riviera, including promotional child deals.

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Giannina Gaslini Pediatric InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Ongoing program of free guided visits twice monthly for children being treated at the Institute. Part of social projects for disadvantaged children with staff volunteer participation.
• Comoros Islands Cetacean ResearchminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Oltremare participated by providing equipment to University of Turin Department of Life Sciences and Faculty of Science and Technology of University of Comoros for cetacean assessment project.
• Metropolitan Dolphins Project / Intercet PlatformcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2001Research collaboration since 2001 studying bottlenose dolphins along Mediterranean coasts. Since 2024 expanded to Adriatic coast (Romagna). Data shared on Intercet platform with 25+ research institutions. Genoa Aquarium coordinates the platform.
• INVACAREminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFree electric scooter rental service for mobility assistance, available for Over 65, invalids at 75%, disabilied at 100%, and those with reduced mobility without requiring disability certification. Partnership provides accessibility services for park guests.
• Costa Edutainment Group (Parent)coreOthersOltremare is managed by Costa Edutainment S.p.A., a leading Italian group managing 12 facilities nationally and internationally including Genoa Aquarium, Cattolica Aquarium, Aquafan, Italia in Miniatura, Livorno Aquarium, and others.
• Hotel Partner NetworkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorNetwork of partner hotels in Riviera Romagnola offering Park + Hotel packages. Includes promotion through C-Way platform with 'Children Free' and other promotional offers.
• TursioMed Project PartnersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner25 research institutions from 6 Mediterranean countries collaborating on conservation status of Mediterranean bottlenose dolphin. Coordinated by Fondazione Acquario di Genova Onlus with WWF Italian Switzerland and ACCOBAMS patronage.
• PROMED Research NetworkminorStrategic or Co-development Partner3-year research project (2023-2026) for protection of Cetacean diversity in Mediterranean Sea, involving over 50 research institutes. Funded by Aderholt Goh Trust, coordinated by Fondazione Acquario di Genova Onlus.
• Whalesafe Project ConsortiumminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEU Life+ co-funded project with University of Genoa, Maritime Directorate of Genoa, Port Authority of Savona, and Softeco for sperm whale conservation through real-time buoys detecting and monitoring whales.
• Aquafan, Italia in Miniatura, Cattolica AquariumcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCombined ticket partnerships allowing visitors to access multiple parks in the region. Tickets can be used on different days within the seasonal opening period.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Leolandia: Leolandia is an Italian zoo-and-amusement park combining animal exhibits with rides; directly comparable to Oltremare on family edutainment positioning with live animals.
• Zoomarine: Zoomarine is an Italian marine-themed park with dolphin and sea-life presentations; directly comparable to Oltremare on the dolphin/animal-show format and Italian family-day-trip positioning.
• Aquafan: Aquafan is a water park in Riccione owned by Costa Edutainment and bundled with Oltremare via combined ticket packages; directly comparable as a sister theme-park asset serving the same Riviera Romagnola tourism funnel.
• Parco Natura Viva: Parco Natura Viva is a zoological park and safari near Verona combining wildlife viewing with educational programming; directly comparable to Oltremare on live-animal edutainment and Italian family-tourism positioning.
• Italia in Miniatura: Italia in Miniatura is a miniature-park attraction in Rimini under Costa Edutainment, bundled with Oltremare on combined tickets; directly comparable as a sister family-attraction asset targeting the same Romagna tourist.
• Cattolica Aquarium: Acquario di Cattolica is a Costa Edutainment-managed marine attraction sharing combined-ticket bundles with Oltremare; directly comparable on marine-life exhibits, ticket bundling, and shared parent group.

Broad incumbents

• Mirabilandia: Mirabilandia is a major Italian amusement park in Ravenna region; a broad incumbent competing for the same Romagna-adjacent tourist demand with greater scale and roller-coaster attractions.
• Cinecittà World: Cinecittà World is a major Italian movie-themed amusement park near Rome; a broad incumbent competing for Italian family leisure spend with a different thematic angle but overlapping audience.
• Gardaland: Gardaland is Italy's largest theme park (Merlin Entertainments group); a broad incumbent across theme-park entertainment that competes with Oltremare for Italian family leisure spend but at materially larger scale.
• Acquario di Genova: Genoa Aquarium is the flagship Costa Edutainment facility and a major European aquarium; broadly comparable to Oltremare on marine-life exhibits, EAZA-licensed operations, and shared parent management.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCfniJU2F6AHqjTCS3L7j6_g
• Facebookfacebook.com/Oltremare.Riccione
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/oltremare-srl
• Instagraminstagram.com/oltremare_official
• Xx.com/Oltremare_RN

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