Disney World and Disneyland Survive Smoking Bans and Big Strollers – The Fool Motley

On Wednesday, the deployment of new restrictions in the park for Walt Disneyof (NYSE: DIS) Domestic theme parks went off without a hitch. The decision of the theme park giant to eliminate the designated smoking areas of Disney World Florida and Disneyland California has only displaced smokers and vapors traffic to designated areas just outside the city. 39 outside the entrances to the park, with easy access to the entrances.

Families who carried children in wagon strollers or strollers over 52 inches long or 31 inches wide had to choose to rent Disney or buy new carriers. Social media was in flames with photos of bigger pushchairs and smokers still passing through the six theme parks, but that will stop over time. Disney pondered this decision and had weeks to implement the move after the end of March announcement.

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Disney had the right timing for this move. May is usually one of the quietest times for Disney. Spring break is over, families and students are returning to school. The summer travel season is still in a few weeks. If the media giant decided to introduce potentially controversial policies, it makes sense to start instituting them when the guest traffic is relatively small.

The parks will soon be a lot busier. Disneyland will open the first phase of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge on May 31st. The Disney World version will be open less than three months later. Breaking the new restrictions would have been difficult when crowd control became a major concern.

Restrictions or not, Disney theme parks will record record attendance this year, and this will only strengthen them next year, when the buzz on Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge will have a full year to go. play on both sides. Even the recent price increases for Disney tickets will not deter visitors. A Disney getaway has never been cheap and, given the economic downturn, it will be difficult for the largest operator of amusement parks in the world not to take it to himself in the next few years.

The activities at the Disney Theme Park were well before guests could fly the Millennium Falcon or grab a glass of blue milk at a galactic water point, as they will do it in the months to come. The sector saw its turnover increase by 5% in the last quarter of Disney, the operating result having increased twice as fast. This gain follows the maximum increase of 10% recorded the previous fiscal year. The company works, and while Disney can get some heat out of the smoker's and stroller camps, there is a world of possibilities just waiting to fill that void.