Disneyland Reopening Delayed Beyond July 17

by Ray Keating

News

DisneyBizJournal.com

June 24, 2020

The Walt Disney Company announced this evening that its Disneyland Resort in California will not reopen on July 17, as previously planned. A new date was not announced.

Source: Disney Parks Blog

In a statement, Disney said, “The State of California has now indicated that it will not issue theme park reopening guidelines until sometime after July 4. Given the time required for us to bring thousands of cast members back to work and restart our business, we have no choice but to delay the reopening of our theme parks and resort hotels until we receive approval from government officials. Once we have a clearer understanding of when guidelines will be released, we expect to be able to communicate a reopening date.”

However, the Downtown Disney District will reopen on July 9, again, as previously announced.

Disney also noted the need to have agreements in place with employee labor unions. It was pointed out that Disney had had “positive discussions and are very pleased to have signed agreements from 20 union affiliates, including the Master Services Council, which represents more than 11,000 of our cast members.”

__________

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

Get the paperback or Kindle edition of Ray Keating’s new book Behind Enemy Lines: Conservative Communiques from Left-Wing New York.