Latest: Themed Entertainment Association Releases Their Top 25 Theme Parks

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<p>TEA has released their top 25 theme park list (by attendance) for 2011. (At HT to <a target="_blank" href="http://thedisneyblog.com/2012/05/30/tea-releases-top-25-theme-parks-for-2011/">TheDisneyBlog.com</a> for formatting this.)</p>
<p>Top 25 attenance &nbsp;(2011/2010) plus their change in ranking, if any.</p>
<p><span>1 Walt Disney World&rsquo;s Magic Kingdom &ndash; 17.1M / 17.0M</span><br /><span>2 Disneyland &ndash; 16.1M / 16.0M</span><br /><span>3 Tokyo Disneyland &ndash; 14.0M / 14.5M</span><br /><span>4 Tokyo DisneySea &ndash; 12.0M / 12.6M</span><br /><span>5 Disneyland Paris &ndash; 11.0M / 10.5M +1</span><br /><span>6 EPCOT &ndash; 10.8M / 10.8M -1</span><br /><span>7 Disney&rsquo;s Animal Kingdom &ndash; 9.8M / 9.7M</span><br /><span>8 Disney&rsquo;s Hollywood Studios &ndash; 9.7M / 9.6M</span><br /><span>9 Universal Studios Japan &ndash; 8.5M / 8.2M</span><br /><span>10 Universal&rsquo;s Islands of Adventure &ndash; 7.7M / 6.0M +2</span><br /><span>11 Lotte World, Seoul, South Korea &ndash; 7.6M / 5.5M +2</span><br /><span>12 Ocean Park, Hong Kong &ndash; 7.0M / 5.4M+5</span><br /><span>13 Everland, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea &ndash; 6.6M / 6.9M -3</span><br /><span>14 Disney California Adventure &ndash; 6.3M / 6.3M -3</span><br /><span>15 Universal Studios Florida &ndash; 6.0M / 6.0M -2</span><br /><span>16 Hong Kong Disneyland &ndash; 5.9M / 5.2M -1</span><br /><span>17 Nagashima Spa Land, Kuwana, Japan &ndash; 5.8M / 4.5M +3</span><br /><span>18 SeaWorld Orlando &ndash; 5.2M / 5.1M -2</span><br /><span>19 Universal Studios Hollywood &ndash; 5.1M / 5.0M -1</span><br /><span>20 Walt Disney Studios Paris &ndash; 4.7M / 4.5M -1</span><br /><span>21 Europa Park &ndash; 4.5M / 4.3M</span><br /><span>22 SeaWorld San Diego &ndash; 4.3M / 3.8M +3</span><br /><span>23 Busch Gardens Tampa &ndash; 4.3M / 4.2M -1</span><br /><span>24 De Eftleing -&nbsp; 4.1M / 4.0M</span><br /><span>25 Tivoli Gardens &ndash; 4.0M / 3.7M</span></p>
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Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

I know these numbers aren't official, but they seem more fishy to me than ever. A couple of oddities:

16 million at DL? I guess all those complaints about over crowding are true. Geez, is that a record?

DCA didn't hit the magic 7 million. It'll be interesting if future reports show increases in the next couple of years after the remodel is officially complete.

I'm surprised at TDLR's numbers actually increased after the parks were closed for a month following last year's devastating quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

HKDL is getting creamed by Ocean Park?

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

Sorry, TDLR's total attendance didn't increase but was flat. That still seems remarkable considering how catastrophic that disaster was.

 

Originally Posted By HokieSkipper

<<HKDL is getting creamed by Ocean Park? >>

Ocean Park is also 3 decades older than HKDL, and HKDL struggled mightily for its first few years. That doesn't surprise me.

And the OLC was trumpeting how well TDR held up even after the Earthquake closure, so that doesn't surprise me.

 

Originally Posted By davewasbaloo

And I would rather go to Tivoli Gardens, De Efteling or Europapark, than the MK.

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

Of course TDLR did well under the circumstances, but I don't believe for one second that attendance was flat following a national catastrophic event like the one Japan suffered and being closed for a month.

I've been to Ocean Park and I know it performs well, but the dramatic difference between it and HKDL is suspicious. Last year, according to TEA's 2011 report, HKDL beat Ocean Park by roughly 15K people. How did OP have such a huge 1.5 million attendance increase over the previous year?

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

I just checked TEA's site and the numbers posted here for TDLR are incorrect. Here are the attendance figures lifted from the actual report on page 13:

TDL: 13,996,000 14,452,000 -3.2%
TDS: 11,930,000 12,663,000 -5.8%

Those figures make a lot more sense.

<a href="http://www.teaconnect.org/pdf/2011Report.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.teaconnect.org/pdf/...port.pdf</a>

 

Originally Posted By Witches of Morva

ORGOCH: Witchcraft, doc Hans, it's 'cause a witchcraft! Yer no stranger ta that! Yer a witch doctor yer own dang self!

 

Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt

Well that explains it then.

 

Originally Posted By Witches of Morva

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