Most Popular Things to See in U.S. Where does WDW stack up?

Roxas

New Member
If its only Magic kingdom the figures will be off all 4 parks are in the global top 10 for attendance, combined I would place them 1st as they have times square with 35 million as the first, WDW has at least that many visitors yearly.
 

Kamikaze

Well-Known Member
Right, its kind of misleading, because they did the LV strip as one location and Times Square as one location, but part of the WDW location seperately.
 

wvdisneyfamily

Well-Known Member
If its only Magic kingdom the figures will be off all 4 parks are in the global top 10 for attendance, combined I would place them 1st as they have times square with 35 million as the first, WDW has at least that many visitors yearly.

I think so, too.

Right, its kind of misleading, because they did the LV strip as one location and Times Square as one location, but part of the WDW location seperately.

I'm really surprised that LV strip is more visited.
 

mkt

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Having peeked at that, it's also the only place that charges admission.
 

unkadug

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Right, its kind of misleading, because they did the LV strip as one location and Times Square as one location, but part of the WDW location seperately.

It's really odd to compare the MK by itself, to things like the LV strip. Seems like apples and oranges.

I agree. If you look at the complete top 25, they have combined UOF and IOA for the number 12 spot. But the MK is alone at # 5. :shrug:

Just goes to show you that numbers can be twisted to show whatever you want to show.
 

fosse76

Well-Known Member
Perhaps it's more based on determining what is a single attraction and basing it on that. Times Square is a very specific location in New York City, so to count it as "one" place is acceptable. People visit it to see the location itself, unlike the Vegas Strip. The Las Vegas Strip isn't in and of itself a destination, but rather the location of destinations people are visiting. But also, when people go to Vegas they say just that: "I'm going to Vegas." Since pretty much all there is to Vegas for tourists is the Strip, they chose that as the singular destination.

So it makes me think that since there is no way to really verify whether or not the Disney World parks' attendance accounts for the same guests visiting multiple parks in one visit they chose to use the numbers that were available to them per park as a more realistic scenario . If 1 guest visits four parks in four days, then that guest is counted four times in attendance totals for the resort as a whole...which inflates the number of guests visiting the resort (that is if you are combining the yearly attendance to all the parks to arrive at the figure).

If you look at it more logically, the odds are that everyone who visits the resort as a whole most likely visits the Magic Kingdom. While I am aware that some people do skip the Magic Kingdom as well as don't visit each park, those numbers are probably negligible overall. Depending on what numbers they are using, it's possible that they include park hoppers, double counting guests. What I mean is that if they base attendance on its peak numbers each day, that could occur (and probably does) at different hours. DAK could peak at 11:00am...and a person could leave that park at 12:00pm and get to MK, which peaks at 1:30pm that day. So if they use those "hard" numbers then guests are being double counted. There are probably people at Disney who sort that out...too bad none of them are on this board.

As to why they count Universal as one, who knows. That is a legitimate question. I didn't look at the numbers, but do they separate the attendance numbers for each park or is it simply listed as Universal Orlando? Theme parks don't release numbers, so these are all estimates based on insider information.
 

ms7479a

Well-Known Member
I found it even more surprising that Tokyo Disney is the most visited attraction in Asia, even more than the Great Wall.
 

WDW1974

Well-Known Member
The Great Wall is amazing to be sure ... but if most WDW guests had to walk one mile on it (especially in summer heat like I did) I shudder to think how many would drop dead.

Oh, and while WDW is terrific place to visit, I don't know if it would make my Top 10 USA destinations unless I included my inevitable Disney bias!
 

fosse76

Well-Known Member
The Great Wall is amazing to be sure ... but if most WDW guests had to walk one mile on it (especially in summer heat like I did) I shudder to think how many would drop dead.

I don't know for sure never having measured, but I'm sure by spending one day in the Magic Kingdom the average guest walks more than a mile.
 

prberk

Well-Known Member
Nobody has mentioned how that one building in Boston had more annual visitors than the whole Magic Kingdom. I found that completely hard to believe.

And Colonial Williamsburg or Yosemite or Hollywood didn't beat out that building either.

Very strange.

That one sounded like a personal preference to me. Otherwise, that would be an awefully crowded building.

Paul
 

Kamikaze

Well-Known Member
Nobody has mentioned how that one building in Boston had more annual visitors than the whole Magic Kingdom. I found that completely hard to believe.

And Colonial Williamsburg or Yosemite or Hollywood didn't beat out that building either.

Very strange.

That one sounded like a personal preference to me. Otherwise, that would be an awefully crowded building.

Paul

Faneuil Hall is also a mall of sorts, so you're getting a lot of local traffic, as well as business-people getting lunch and stuff from the restaurants/bars. (Cheers)
Its not a small building. Also, its free to enter. I can believe the numbers they give.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...078,-71.054211&spn=0.003789,0.008261&t=h&z=18
 

PintoColvig

Active Member
Faneuil Hall is also a mall of sorts, so you're getting a lot of local traffic, as well as business-people getting lunch and stuff from the restaurants/bars. (Cheers)
Its not a small building. Also, its free to enter. I can believe the numbers they give.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...078,-71.054211&spn=0.003789,0.008261&t=h&z=18
I don't believe it. For the numbers to work, Fannuiel Hall would have to average almost 55,000 visitors each day or 4,500+ visitors an hour (based on a 12-hour day). I've been there a couple of times during the busy summer season. If there were more than 150 people in the main building each time, I'd be surprised. As far as I'm concerned, the Boston numbers are extremely over stated.
 

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