It could also very well be worth a lot less, given its location in Central Park it likely means it has to remain a green space without significant construction. That does dampen the price significantly...
what is the richest zoo?
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It could also very well be worth a lot less, given its location in Central Park it likely means it has to remain a green space without significant construction. That does dampen the price significantly...
There is no doubt that it is Disney Animal Kingdom.
They have not recovered from the covid pandemic but they still clock in 9 million visitors-yearly.
Their cheapest tickets are 139 bucks. Now granted there are lots of ways to get discounts and probably MOST of their visitors use some discount method. BUT that doesn't include
food, beverage and merch + a good number also stay at associated Disney hotels.
So at an absolute minimum they are probably taking in at least 1.5 BILLION yearly, and probably
close to twice that.
They have not recovered from the covid pandemic but they still clock in 9 million visitors-yearly.
Their cheapest tickets are 139 bucks. Now granted there are lots of ways to get discounts and probably MOST of their visitors use some discount method. BUT that doesn't include
food, beverage and merch + a good number also stay at associated Disney hotels.
So at an absolute minimum they are probably taking in at least 1.5 BILLION yearly, and probably
close to twice that.
filovirus
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It's Animal Kingdom for sure.
Let's do some conservative calculations. It's hard to find estimates for how many daily visitors Animal Kingdom sees so I'll just do a broad calculation- approx. 8,770,000 visitors in 2023 = just over 24,000/day. That feels fair. I can go on the Disney World website and get a bundled deal that works out to $89/day for adults, or the same ticket at $59/day per kids. Let's stick the daily ticket price at a very modest $70/day. This should hopefully account for people super-discounting and people not-at-all-discounting.
24,000 people daily x $70 = $1,680,000. In ticket sales alone. That's not including food, souvenirs, associated resort stays, photos, fast pass sales, or the quadrillion-and-one other ways that Disney can get a dollar out of you.
(in ticket sales alone that'd be- again, I think a pretty conservative- $613,200,000 yearly.)
these numbers are far from gospel and I dare not imagine what their operating costs are. but i'd be hard-pressed to find a zoo with that much income elsewhere.
Let's do some conservative calculations. It's hard to find estimates for how many daily visitors Animal Kingdom sees so I'll just do a broad calculation- approx. 8,770,000 visitors in 2023 = just over 24,000/day. That feels fair. I can go on the Disney World website and get a bundled deal that works out to $89/day for adults, or the same ticket at $59/day per kids. Let's stick the daily ticket price at a very modest $70/day. This should hopefully account for people super-discounting and people not-at-all-discounting.
24,000 people daily x $70 = $1,680,000. In ticket sales alone. That's not including food, souvenirs, associated resort stays, photos, fast pass sales, or the quadrillion-and-one other ways that Disney can get a dollar out of you.
(in ticket sales alone that'd be- again, I think a pretty conservative- $613,200,000 yearly.)
these numbers are far from gospel and I dare not imagine what their operating costs are. but i'd be hard-pressed to find a zoo with that much income elsewhere.
gerome
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I think Disney Animal Kingdom, is propably the richest but I wonder if the zoo actually has that money available to them that they make, I assume most of it goes to Disney direct pockets and is not money available to expand the park. unlike zoo such as Paira Daiza or Beauval
If you were to strip out the disney branding would the park still have such high revenue as a stand-alone park.
when I posted the question I was really wonder which parks have the most money available to them to put into projects
If you were to strip out the disney branding would the park still have such high revenue as a stand-alone park.
when I posted the question I was really wonder which parks have the most money available to them to put into projects
