News 2021 Theme Index

[lazyboy97o]

The 2021 TEA/AECOM Theme Index is now available.

Theme & Museum Index

The TEA/AECOM Theme Index and Museum Index is a collaboration of the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) and the economics practice at AECOM, a global provider of technical-professional and management-support services. This calendar-year study of globa

www.teaconnect.org

 

[mysto]

The 2021 TEA/AECOM Theme Index is now available.

Theme & Museum Index

The TEA/AECOM Theme Index and Museum Index is a collaboration of the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) and the economics practice at AECOM, a global provider of technical-professional and management-support services. This calendar-year study of globa

www.teaconnect.org

Source?
Kidding, this is fantastic thank you.
We're number 1.

 

[danlb_2000]

The 2021 TEA/AECOM Theme Index is now available.

Theme & Museum Index

The TEA/AECOM Theme Index and Museum Index is a collaboration of the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) and the economics practice at AECOM, a global provider of technical-professional and management-support services. This calendar-year study of globa

www.teaconnect.org

Wow, both Universal Orlando parks over took all of the WDW parks except MK.

 

[Comped]

Wow, both Universal Orlando parks over took all of the WDW parks except MK.

Big question is will it remain that was in next year's ranking, especially with Covid restrictions gone. I doubt it, especially due to Disney's attendance caps - but if MK loses out on being the biggest park by attendance in the world some day, that'll be perhaps a day when things change. I hope. I've been doing a lot of hoping lately.

 

[peter11435]

Wow, both Universal Orlando parks over took all of the WDW parks except MK.

Am I crazy? That’s not what I see

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Am I crazy? That’s not what I see

It took me a while to figure out how to read the charts.

The ranking on the left hand margin of the report is for 2019.

On the right is where you'll see 2020 and 2021. The numbers are higher for the Universal parks than the WDW ones, exclusing MK.

 

[ChrisFL]

I see 2019 on the left, then 2020 and 2019 numbers on the right. It looks like DAK is still higher than Universal

 

[Animaniac93-98]

What would realistically happen if 2022 saw a repeat of Universal's gates topping Disney's again?

Discount tickets for locals? More promos for Disney+ subscribers?

I doubt anything substantial would happen. Disney is reactionary when it comes to not hitting quarterly targets (usually cuts and price hikes), but they are glacial at responding to major market shifts.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Let's make this easier for everybody:

2021

Magic Kingdom 12.6 million
Islands of Adventure 9 million
Universal Studios Florida 8.9 million
Disney's Hollywood Studios 8.5 million
EPCOT 7.7 million
Animal Kingdom 7.1 million

 

[Animaniac93-98]

I believe this is the first time IoA has topped USF too?

 

[danlb_2000]

1. MK
2. Islands of Adventure
3. Universal Studios Florida
4. DHS
5. Disneyland
6. Shanghai Disney
7. Epcot
7. Chimelong Ocean Kingdom
8. Animal Kingdom
9. Tokyo Disneyland
10. Tokyo DisneySea

 

[danlb_2000]

I believe this is the first time IoA has topped USF too?

I am guessing VelociCoaster had a lot to do with that.

 

[Jrb1979]

When you look at the domestic numbers I'm always amazed at how high Knotts is. For a park that doesn't get talked about much it does very well.

 

[peter11435]

It took me a while to figure out how to read the charts.

The ranking on the left hand margin of the report is for 2019.

On the right is where you'll see 2020 and 2021. The numbers are higher for the Universal parks than the WDW ones, exclusing MK.

Thank you. I was accidentally looking at the 2020 report

 

[ChrisFL]

yeah I realized what I did, the website makes it confusing

 

[Sir_Cliff]

So, does anyone know if this is accurate? The numbers Disney has been reporting suggest they are going gangbusters, but these figures suggest a major realignment in the Orlando theme park market in which Universal is seriously competing with Disney for #1.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

So, does anyone know if this is accurate? The numbers Disney has been reporting suggest they are going gangbusters, but these figures suggest a major realignment in the Orlando theme park market in which Universal is seriously competing with Disney for #1.

These are estimates for 2021, it's possible this year was much better for Disney.

Universal has also recently said they are taking market share from Disney, so clearly both are trying to hype their pandemic recovery.

 

[BrianLo]

So, does anyone know if this is accurate? The numbers Disney has been reporting suggest they are going gangbusters, but these figures suggest a major realignment in the Orlando theme park market in which Universal is seriously competing with Disney for #1.

This is all from 2021 and in some ways this report feels like the biggest time capsule TEA has ever released. We're in a very different environment in Fall 2022 than Spring 2021.

I think that's why TEA has maintained the 2019 rankings. It's more than Universal ran their parks mostly unrestricted in 2021 and recovered 90% of their attendance. Disney and other parks less so. Anywhere outside of Florida and China especially.


Not that I find the TEA report uninteresting, I'm just surprised it wasn't published earlier in the year. From what I can quickly gather it used to be published in the Spring pre-pandemic and even the 2020 report occurred in summer 2021.

 

[lazyboy97o]

This year’s report was released during SATE, the TEA’s big fall conference. So it’s not just a completely random Friday in October.

 

[Sharon&Susan]

I know I'm kidding myself, but a small part of me hopes that Universal might learn something from IoA becoming more popular than the main park to improve. While I've never visited the park itself, but from what I've seen USF I would not be interested in visiting it in it's current state unlike IoA or when it opens EU.