Attendance Figures for 2008

[James]

http://www.teaconnect.org/etea/TEAERA2008.pdf


A quick look through the pdf shows Disney and Universal on top (as expected). Further down the list the seasonal parks take root however out of the top 25 in the world none are seasonal in North America. Its interesting to see how all the different regions performed, and even more insightful to look at how parks that are close to one another performed. A great example is Cedar Point and Kings Island where Cedar Point only had 72,000 more guests than its sister park down in Cincinnati.

Another column to pay attention to is the %change, you can see that most regional parks attendance went up, while the year round parks seemed to have been the same or gone down. Comparing these numbers to the 2009 numbers is going to be an interesting read.

[Zach]

It makes sense that the regional attendence went up and the destination attendence went down, with the economy the way it is. More people are visiting their local parks and saving money.