Theme Park Attendance for 2006 - Surprising

[boomhauer]

Magic Kingdom, 16.6 million visits (No. 1 worldwide)
Epcot, 10.5 million visits (No. 6)
Disney-MGM Studios, 9.1 million visits (No. 7)
Disney's Animal Kingdom, 8.9 million visits (No. 8)

Now, it's no surprise that Magic Kingdom is #1. Disneyland is #2. What is surprising (to me anyways) is that spots 3, 4 and 5 belong to Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo Disney Sea, and Disneyland Paris.

I was under the impression those parks didn't do nearly as well as the US parks.

 

[bradk]

actually, the biggest surprise (although not really) is that HKDL outperformed Ocean World, specifically because legitimate news outlets were reporting how HKDL was flopping by citing unfair figures.

i posted it in another thread but rather try to find it, the link to the full report as published by TEA (who took over for the now-defunct Amusement Business): http://www.connectingindustry.com/pdfs/TEA-ERAAttendance06.pdf