Ocean Park, Hong Kong's home-grown theme park, has announced a HK$5.55bn (€530m) makeover to go "world-class" as it seeks to "co-exist" with the soon-to-open Disneyland.

The proposed revamp will see one of Hong Kong's most popular tourist attractions rebuilt by 2010 with a stronger maritime theme and double the number of attractions. "With Disneyland coming, a top theme park name in the world, we thought we had better become very good," said Allan Zeman, Ocean Park's chairman.