While you were focused on Universal Epic Universe and its potential impact on Disney, Universal Studios planned more. Right now, Disney’s primary competitor in the United States is building three new theme parks and...
The Walt Disney Company faced innumerable, previously unimaginable challenges during the pandemic. Since then, the company has done an admirable job of making people forget the whole thing had ever happened. Still, theme park...
We’re not quite to 2025, but we’re close enough that many within the industry are already looking forward to next year. Whether Disney wants it or not, a conversation is coming in 2025. Many...
For at least the third time in calendar 2024, a Disney executive just stated that Universal Epic Universe isn’t a threat. Instead, Disney officials have pointedly argued that the new park will, if anything,...
On October 24th, 2024, tickets will go on sale for Orlando’s first new theme park since the 1990s. Then, Universal Epic Universe will officially open to the public on May 22nd, 2025. At that...
Begun, the theme park wars have. Okay, I’m one of the least likely people on this planet to quote Star Wars, but even I thought of Yoda the other day. The quote came to...
Disney CEO Bob Iger recently suggested that he’s open to selling Hulu, one of his three streaming services. On its own, that story has nothing to do with theme parks. However, a Wall Street...
There was time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, that people wondered if the tourism industry would ever come back. In Central Florida, Walt Disney World shuttered its doors for the first time...
The recent 2021 attendance report reinforced an argument that a Comcast executive made earlier this year. The insider suggested that Universal Studios has gained traction and siphoned market share from Disney’s theme park empire....
You may not believe this, but we are nearly four months into hurricane season. Thankfully, we’d experienced a slow season until recently. The past 10 days have proven perilous, though. With Hurricane Fiona still...
