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Florida has the Good Winter Weather.Florida and Disney are one, now.
What will become of Florida without Disney? Back to being a swamp?
" Disney has created thousands of indirect jobs, brings around 50 million visitors to Florida every year and is the state's largest taxpayer."
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Disney scraps plans for new Florida campus, mass employee relocation amid DeSantis feud
Disney and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are entangled in a bitter feud centered in part around the company's special district and development plans.www.cnbc.com
n Orlando alone, more than 300,000 people lived in the city when Walt Disney World opened. Now, it is home to more than 2 million residents. What’s more, in 2019, the economic impact from the tourism industry in Orlando resulted in more than $73 billion in "business sales impact" for 17 sectors of the city’s economy, according to the Orlando Business Journal. While additional attractions have arrived in the area following the opening of Walt Disney World, its four theme parks continue to generate the most revenue and visitors in the area.
The ripple effects from Walt Disney World Resorts are undoubtedly felt across Florida, including Miami, Horenstein added. Through South Florida's international airport and the robust tourism industry itself, people visiting Disney historically pass through Miami and engage in economic activity.
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After 50 years, Walt Disney World still casts a spell on Florida
In 1971, the entertainment resort complex opened its doors in Lake Buena Vista, ushering in an era of remarkable financial growth in the state. And five decades later, its magic continues to boost tourism and the economy.news.miami.edu
Disney was the first company to exploit that on a large scale as the Age of Discretionary-Income Winter Vacations and Routinely-Cheap Air Travel unfolded.
Nature abhors a vaccum.
Now that Disney has proven the concept of a Winter Good-Weather Family-Fun Tourist Trap, others will rush in to fill that vacuum.
It will be a noticeable but short-lived bump in Florida's long history and economic well-being.
Disney is not Florida.
Disney will blink long before the State of Florida does.
If you believe otherwise you are deluding yourself.