TheApplause Award is an international award given out byLiseberg, a theme park in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is given out every two years to theamusement park whose "management, operations and creative accomplishments have inspired the industry with their foresight, originality and sound business development."[1] The award is a bronze statue of two clapping hands. It was designed byAstri Taube, a Swedish sculptor.[2] The winner is chosen by a board of governors withLiseberg's CEO, Andreas Andersen, being the chairman.[3]
It is considered by many to be theAcademy Award of the amusement park industry.[4]In summer of 2020, it was announced that due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming award ceremony would be postponed until 2021. However, a year later it was again announced that the award had been postponed again, and would resume normally in 2022.