From Jim Hill Media - interesting read.
Jim Hill takes a look at one of Disney World's most serious problems. Which is that this Central Florida resort now has 5000 more hotel rooms than it can actually fill on a regular basis
Still having trouble wrapping your head around the idea that the Walt Disney Company just awarded Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts the rights to build a luxury hotel & 18-hole golf course on WDW property? Well, think about how the folks who actually run the resorts side of things of Walt Disney World must have felt. Given that they weren't actually clued into this deal until just 48 hours prior to the official announcement.
Mind you, this would never have happened back in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Back when virtually every hotel that Mickey owned in Central Florida maintained a 90 % or higher occupancy rate. But now that the Mouse has an inventory of over 21,000 on-property rooms (Never mind about those 2487 Disney Vacation Club units that are currently available for occupancy at WDW. Or those 784 campsites & 409 cabins that you can rent at Fort Wilderness Campground) ... Disney really has to hustle these days in order to put heads in all those beds. Especially during the off-season.
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2007/04/02/monday-mousewatch.aspx
Jim Hill takes a look at one of Disney World's most serious problems. Which is that this Central Florida resort now has 5000 more hotel rooms than it can actually fill on a regular basis
Still having trouble wrapping your head around the idea that the Walt Disney Company just awarded Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts the rights to build a luxury hotel & 18-hole golf course on WDW property? Well, think about how the folks who actually run the resorts side of things of Walt Disney World must have felt. Given that they weren't actually clued into this deal until just 48 hours prior to the official announcement.
Mind you, this would never have happened back in the late 1980s / early 1990s. Back when virtually every hotel that Mickey owned in Central Florida maintained a 90 % or higher occupancy rate. But now that the Mouse has an inventory of over 21,000 on-property rooms (Never mind about those 2487 Disney Vacation Club units that are currently available for occupancy at WDW. Or those 784 campsites & 409 cabins that you can rent at Fort Wilderness Campground) ... Disney really has to hustle these days in order to put heads in all those beds. Especially during the off-season.
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2007/04/02/monday-mousewatch.aspx