To be fully operational in three to five years

Mumbai-based Atlanta Ltd, an infrastructure development and real estate company, has received, in principle, an approval from the Government of Gujarat to set up a theme park in Surat. The entertainment city may be bigger than Disneyland in California, Paris and Tokyo and is expected to be fully operational in three to five years. The site is expected to attract 10 million tourists every year from India and abroad.

The project will be spread across 3200 acres, all of which the company will buy from the Government of Gujarat at market price. The site identified at Suvali Beach, which has a 3.3 km stretch along the Arabian Sea coast, is located around 20 km from Surat and will have theme parks like nature park, amusement park, water park, beach park, ice skating and skiing dome, restaurants, hotels, studios, forest villas, beach villas, studio lagoon and apartments and villas among others.