Disney looks to sea to boost growth

[WDW Scrap Princess]

From the Orlando Sentinel....

Right around sunrise Tuesday, the newest addition to the Walt Disney Co.'s global vacation empire will glide up to a pier at Port Canaveral.

The Disney Dream, a 130,000-ton ocean liner with room aboard for 4,000 passengers, is the first of two new cruise ships Disney is building at a combined cost of more than $1.8 billion. Together, the Dream and the Disney Fantasy — which will debut in spring 2012 — will increase the company's capacity at sea by nearly 150 percent.


Disney has big expectations for the cruise expansion, a business that has proven immensely profitable for the company since it launched its cruise line 12 years ago. Disney's two existing ships, the Magic and Wonder, have generated better returns than any of the company's recent theme-park investments; in some years, they have churned out higher profits than the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.


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Cruise ship comparisons of the Disney Dream, Magic and the Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas. (Orlando Sentinel staff / January 1, 2011)

[Carolc]

Interesting article, thanks!

[tiggernjen]

Thanks for the info...