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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

A Disney Gig – Work, Play or Both?

by Ray Keating
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DisneyBizJournal.com
January 8, 2020

Some of us have had a job that we’ve been so passionate about that we’ve said, “I would do this even if I wasn’t being paid.” (As a novelist, I get it!) The Walt Disney Company counts on that when it comes to its Disney Parks Moms Panel, which just added 14 new members today.

Courtesy of the Disney Parks Moms Panel

The Disney Parks Moms Panel serves up personal vacation advice. As Disney put it: “Chosen from thousands of applicants from around the world, the newest members of the Disney Parks Moms Panel will join 28 returning moms, dads, grandparents and other in-the-know family members as an online resource to assist with planning a visit to Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, a Disney Vacation Club property or sailing aboard Disney Cruise Line. Panelists provide heartfelt and relatable one-on-one advice based on their own real-life experiences.”

Along with the new members also comes an updated Disney Parks Moms Panel content hub.

And, no, members of the Disney parks Moms Panel are not paid. As The New York Times noted:

Every week for the next year, each panelist will answer about 15 questions from eager travelers seeking advice on where to stay, which rides to go on, where to eat and how to activate wristbands, among other questions. In most cases the panelists will pull from their own Disney experiences and also do some research to see if there is new information available. Some questions may take 10 minutes to answer, others 30 — it all depends...

The panelist position, while a Disney contractor role with an intensive application process, is not paid. In exchange for answering these questions every week, the panelists get a free stay at a Disney park or vacation club of their choice for five nights and can bring three people along.

So, yes, these folks do it out of a love for Disney, not for the pay.

But hey, there seems to be at least one job out there offering a small salary to visit Disney and other Florida-based theme parks. ABCActionNews.com reported that Ocean Florida, which is a United Kingdom travel agency, has a three-week gig in April and May to be a Theme Park Tester. The person will be paid $3,900, along with all travel costs covered and a daily budget, to test, experience and fully document via social media and videos visits to theme parks like Disney World.

Of course, entrepreneurial opportunities also exist surrounding Disney, as so many writers, podcasters, and vloggers can tell you. 

If you’re a Disney fan, any of these gigs turn out to be a mix between work and play.

Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com, and author of The Disney Planner 2020: The TO DO List Solution and the Pastor Stephen Grant novels. He can be contacted at  raykeating@keatingreports.com.

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