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  2. Timeline of the Walt Disney Company - Wikipedia

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    Year Events Notable film releases 1923 In Los Angeles, Walt Disney sells his short live-action cartoon reel titled "Alice's Wonderland", produced by Laugh-O-Gram. [1] Soon after, Walt and his brother Roy sign a contract to make 6 more such films, called Alice Comedies, which New York-based Margaret J. Winkler would distribute at $1,500 per reel.

  3. The Walt Disney Company - Wikipedia

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    On April 15, 1983, Disney's first park outside the US, Tokyo Disneyland, opened in Urayasu. [174] Costing around $1.4 billion, construction started in 1979 when Disney and The Oriental Land Company agreed to build a park together. Within its first ten years, the park had over 140 million visitors. [175]

  4. Disney Vacation Club - Wikipedia

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    On March 30, 1993 Disney Vacation Development Inc announced plans for a 440-unit time-share resort 95 miles (153 km) south-east of Walt Disney World in Florida [7] with ground breaking on July 28, 1994. This resort hotel, today known as Disney's Vero Beach Resort, opened on October 1, 1995, as the Vacation Club Resort at Vero Beach, Florida. [8]

  5. Gary L. Wilson - Wikipedia

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    During his tenure there, market capitalization increased from $2 billion to $20 billion, an IRR of 58 percent, primarily by expanding hotel and theme park assets while increasing prices. Among his accomplishments were increasing hotel rooms from 4,000 in 1985 to 18,000 rooms in 1992 and introducing time-sharing based on the Marriott model. [ 3 ]

  6. Disney's Shuttered “Star Wars” Hotel Will Officially Be ...

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    The immersive Galactic Starcruiser hotel experience opened in March 2022 and closed just 18 months later in September 2023

  7. Disneyland Resort - Wikipedia

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    After Walt's and Roy's deaths in 1966 and 1971, respectively, the Walt Disney Company would go on to achieve success with the multi-park, multi-hotel resort complex business model of Walt Disney World in Florida, which opened in 1971. In the 1990s, Disney decided to turn Disneyland into a similar multi-park, multi-hotel resort destination.

  8. Theme park capital: This city is the largest US travel and ...

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    Last year, Orlando, Florida, earned 20% of its GDP through its tourism sector, surpassing 2019 levels, and proving it's an iconic destination. Theme park capital: This city is the largest US ...

  9. Bridges history column: How hotel magnate Conrad Hilton began ...

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    Hilton started buying more hotels. By 1924, he built a new hotel in Dallas, the fourteen-story Dallas Hilton, which he completed for more than $1.3 million (or $23.3 million in 2024 dollars).