I agree. But just to re-iterate: they're still doing it, the content will remain the same as previously announced. They're just naming the new area Blackpool Central Indoor Entertainment Park instead of Chariots of the Gods. The investors paying for the project have the rights to von Daniken’s book so they're sticking with it.
Chariots of the Gods is about the idea of aliens having visited the Earth in the distant past. You don't need the rights to the book to build an attraction based around that particular concept. So if they've ditched the title, why pay
anything in royalties to the rights-holders?
It's all a bit fishy. Said rights-holders are Media Invest Entertainment and according to
their website are "a corporate group specialising in media and entertainment which owns and controls rights to intellectual properties". But scroll down and it seems they have the rights to exactly one thing - the books of Erich von Däniken.
Under "Projects" they have "Chariots of the Gods Theme Parks and Resorts", which would imply they're being vastly optimistic about the value of the brand and hoping to build several attractions based on the IP. If the first one has already dropped the title, it doesn't bode well for the future of their investment, does it?
As an aside, the page on their website
listing the films and TV programmes supposedly inspired by the book is quite hilarious.
Acclaimed director Ridley Scott has credited Chariots Of The Gods™ as the stimulus for his classic 1979 blockbuster smash, Alien, and the book has provided fertile ground for many more prolific individuals, including [...] George Lucas’ Star Wars trilogy and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Except neither Alien nor Star Wars has anything to do with the Earth being visited by aliens. And 2001 was released in 1968 following four years of production. The book was first published in...umm...1968.