Theme park and travel division of The Walt Disney Company
Disney Experiences
Formerly
Walt Disney Outdoor Recreation (1980–1989)
Walt Disney Attractions (1989–2008)
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide (2008–2018)
Walt Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products (2018)
Disney Parks, Experiences and Products (2018–2023)
Company type
Division
Founded
April 1, 1971; 53 years ago (1971-04-01)
Headquarters
Lake Buena Vista, Florida Glendale, California
,
U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Josh D'Amaro (Chair)
Parent
The Walt Disney Company
Subsidiaries
Adventures by Disney
Aulani
Disney Consumer Products
Disney Cruise Line
Disney Publishing Worldwide
Disney Store
Disney Vacation Club
Disneyland Paris
Disneyland Resort
Hong Kong Disneyland Resort (48%)
Shanghai Disney Resort (43%)
Walt Disney Imagineering
Walt Disney World
Website
disneyconnect.com
Footnotes / references [1][2][3]
Disney Experiences,[a] commonly known as Disney Parks, is one of the three major divisions of The Walt Disney Company.[4][2] It was founded on April 1, 1971, exactly six months before the opening of Walt Disney World.
Led by Josh D'Amaro, the company's theme parks hosted over 157.3 million guests, making Disney Parks the world's most visited theme park company worldwide,[5] with United Kingdom-based Merlin Entertainments coming in second at 67 million guests. It is Disney's largest business segment by employee headcount, with approximately 130,000[6] of the company's 180,000 employees as of 2015.[7][needs update] In March 2018, Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media was merged into Parks and Resorts and renamed Disney Parks, Experiences and Products. In September 2020, Disney Parks, Experiences and Products laid off 28,000 employees in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
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^ ab"Detail by Entity Name: Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Worldwide, Inc". SunBiz.org. Florida Department of State Division of Corporations. Archived from the original on November 18, 2015. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
^"Company Overview of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on February 5, 2018. Retrieved September 4, 2018.
^Brzeski, Patrick (November 16, 2023). "Disney's "Turbocharging" of Theme Park Business Gathers Pace With 'Frozen Land' Launch in Hong Kong". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on November 16, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2023.
^"TEA/AECOM 2018 Theme Index and Museum Index: The Global Attractions Attendance Report" (PDF). TEA/AECOM. 2019. p. 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on June 2, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
^Barnes, Brooks (April 26, 2015). "Thomas Staggs: Disney's Heir, Apparently". The New York Times. New York. p. BU1. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
^"Form 10-K, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, by the Walt Disney Company for the Fiscal Year Ended September 27, 2014" (PDF). The Walt Disney Company. November 19, 2014. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 17, 2014. Retrieved November 23, 2014.
^Pallotta, Frank (September 30, 2020). "Disney is laying off 28,000 employees as pandemic hammers its theme parks". CNN Business. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
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