dnickels
10-07-2011, 02:19 PM
Reading some of the threads about how the economy has affected the frequency of trips and how crowded the parks seem to be got me thinking......
What if everyone in the world a) wanted to go to Disney World, and b) had the $$ to do so?
Let's say that tomorrow morning the entire world called up and booked a trip so that everything was filled up and no one could make a return visit until everyone else had a chance to do so. How long do you think you'd have to go between trips? (THINK OF YOUR ANSWER HERE BEFORE SCROLLING DOWN)
Now granted, these are just back of the napkin calculations, but they'll have to suffice. My understanding is that the Magic Kingdom has a max capacity somewhere around 75,000 people at a given time and Epcot has a larger capacity though I don't know the number on that. We'll round all 4 parks up to a capacity of 100,000 to make the math easier.
400,000 people per day can visit the parks if we let them fill to capacity each and every day
365 days in a year gets us to..... 146,000,000 people per year
7 billion people divided by 146,000,000 gives us 47.9 years between visits.
Actual attendance (from a quick google search) appears to be somewhere in the 45-50 million range for DW, so if we don't pack the parks and only fill them to average, we can only visit once every 142 years. The answer above also assumes only a single day to visit the park(s). For a four day vacation, multiply by four. Also assumes people go to a theme park, not a water park, etc, etc.
The point? None really, just an interesting perspective.
What if everyone in the world a) wanted to go to Disney World, and b) had the $$ to do so?
Let's say that tomorrow morning the entire world called up and booked a trip so that everything was filled up and no one could make a return visit until everyone else had a chance to do so. How long do you think you'd have to go between trips? (THINK OF YOUR ANSWER HERE BEFORE SCROLLING DOWN)
Now granted, these are just back of the napkin calculations, but they'll have to suffice. My understanding is that the Magic Kingdom has a max capacity somewhere around 75,000 people at a given time and Epcot has a larger capacity though I don't know the number on that. We'll round all 4 parks up to a capacity of 100,000 to make the math easier.
400,000 people per day can visit the parks if we let them fill to capacity each and every day
365 days in a year gets us to..... 146,000,000 people per year
7 billion people divided by 146,000,000 gives us 47.9 years between visits.
Actual attendance (from a quick google search) appears to be somewhere in the 45-50 million range for DW, so if we don't pack the parks and only fill them to average, we can only visit once every 142 years. The answer above also assumes only a single day to visit the park(s). For a four day vacation, multiply by four. Also assumes people go to a theme park, not a water park, etc, etc.
The point? None really, just an interesting perspective.