The Walt Disney Company and SeaWorld announced plans Wednesday to reopen their Florida theme parks over the next two months.
May 27 (UPI) — The Walt Disney Company and SeaWorld announced plans Wednesday to reopen their Florida theme parks over the next two months.
Thomas Smith, editorial content director of Disney Parks, said Magic Kingdom Park and Disney’s Animal Kingdom will begin a phased reopening July 11, pending an approval by Florida and Orange County. EPCOT and Disney’s Hollywood Studios will open July 15 under the preliminary plan.
«In preparing to reopen during this unusual time, we have to manage our theme parks in a very different way from what we’ve known before,» Smith said in a statement. «As we begin to reach out to our cast members and call them back to work, they will be focused on operating our parks in a responsible way that continues to give our guests opportunities to create magical Disney memories.»
Marc Swanson, interim CEO of SeaWorld, told Central Florida leaders at a meeting Wednesday that SeaWorld, Discovery Cove and Aquatica will reopen June 11.
Disney closed the Walt Disney World Resort parks as well as its theme parks in California in mid-March, around the time many states began banning large gatherings of people amid the rising coronavirus spread.
