Erlebnis Akademie AG: Significant improvement in earnings in 2024
27.06.2025
- Sales in 2024 grow to 25.1 million euros (previous year: 23.8 million euros)
- Operating result (EBIT) increases to EUR 0.32 million (previous year: EUR -0.40 million)
- Positive summary of the first half of 2025
- Forecast 2025: Group sales in the range of € 25.6 million to € 27.9 million; Group EBIT in the range of € 0.8 million to € 2.6 million
Bad Kötzting, 27 June 2025 - Erlebnis Akademie AG today presented its audited consolidated financial statements for the 2024 financial year, confirming the preliminary figures. Accordingly, the company achieved sales of 25.1 million euros and an operating result (EBIT) of 0.32 million euros. Compared to the previous year, this corresponds to sales growth of 5.5 %. The operating result improved significantly compared to the previous year's negative figure of -0.40 million euros.
Targeted marketing activities and new attractions - in particular the successful winter illuminations at selected locations - contributed significantly to this positive development. Despite unfavourable weather conditions at times, particularly in Europe, Erlebnis Akademie was able to increase visitor numbers over the course of the year, which is a clear sign of the company's operational performance.
‘Even if we have not yet fully achieved individual targets, we do not see this as a disadvantage, but rather as an indicator of further development potential,’ explains Christoph Blaß, CFO of Erlebnis Akademie AG. ‘Overall, we see the 2024 financial year as pointing the way forward and are already preparing exciting new projects for the coming years.’
In June 2025, Erlebnis Akademie AG launched five locations on the ‘Get-Your-Guide’ booking platform. Further locations and additional
platforms are to follow in the course of the year. These and other marketing and sales measures are intended to further increase frequency at the locations and boost customer demand. The company is also continuously driving forward its project pipeline. Several new and expansion projects are currently being planned or realised - including a bear enclosure in Krkonoše, Czech Republic, and a large slide in Laurentides, Canada. Further play and climbing elements are planned at various locations in cooperation with a new partner. The construction of a new treetop walk in Istria (Croatia), one of the most popular holiday destinations on the Adriatic, is being pushed forward with the Slovakian partner. The company is also working with an Irish partner on a new site in Northern Ireland, which is scheduled to open in 2027.
Against the backdrop of current and planned investments - including high ropes courses, animal enclosures and slides - Erlebnis Akademie AG also expects positive business development in the medium term. The company is forecasting consolidated sales of between EUR 25.6 million and EUR 27.9 million in 2025. EBIT at Group level is expected to be between EUR 0.8 million and EUR 2.6 million. eak also anticipates a further increase in turnover and profit beyond 2025. Growth should become even more dynamic in 2027 with the ramp-up of the planned new locations in Croatia and Northern Ireland. Actual implementation depends on approval processes and secured financing, among other things.
`The current financial year has been stable so far, with sales slightly above the previous year's level. At the same time, more weather-related closures and a later start to the season at the locations in Austria, France and Germany - among other things due to the deliberate postponement of the opening of the adventure forests to Easter - resulted in selective restrictions compared to the previous year," reports Bernd Bayerköhler, CEO of Erlebnis Akademie AG. ‘Now the important time of the summer holidays and thus our peak season is approaching, and we expect a good travel season in 2025.´
Note: The audited consolidated financial statements for 2024 are available for download by investors on the Erlebnis Akademie website at www.eak-ag.de in the Investors section.
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About Erlebnis Akademie AG
Erlebnis Akademie AG was founded in Bad Kötzting in the Upper Palatinate in 2001 and is now one of the leading providers of nature-based leisure and adventure centres in Germany. To date, the company has built 13 treetop walks, including additional facilities, with a total investment of more than 85 million euros. The five German sites are located in the Black Forest, in the Bavarian Forest National Park, on the islands of Rügen and Usedom and at the Saarschleife.
Erlebnis Akademie is also represented with locations in the Czech Republic [Krkonoše (2017)], Slovakia [Bachledova/Hohe Tatra (2017)], Austria [Gmunden, Salzkammergut (2018)], Slovenia [Pohorje (2019)], France [Alsace (2021)] Ireland [Avondale Forest (2022)] and Canada [Laurentides (2022)]. The company has also already realised a total of four adventure forests at selected locations. The educational content was realised in cooperation with renowned partners such as the German Federal Environmental Foundation. In 2024, a total of.
2.3 million visitors visited the treetop walks and adventure forests of the eak Group (including minority interests). In addition to the planning of - under normal conditions - an average of two to three new adventure facilities per year, there are additional concrete growth prospects through the expansion of existing facilities, expansion of merchandise, catering offers and cooperation marketing - as well as in the future through concept transfer to other nature adventure worlds.
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