Walt Disney World brought in record revenue for the third financial quarter, company executives announced Wednesday.
“There’s been a lot of concerns, of course, because of the new Universal park down in Florida,” Hugh Johnston , Walt Disney Co. chief financial officer, said in an interview on CNBC . “We really blew away the quarter … 8% revenue [increase], 13% operating income. And Walt Disney World had its biggest Q3 ever.”
Disney does not break out financial numbers or announce attendance for individual resorts. But the third-quarter results show the company’s domestic parks — which includes Disney World, Disneyland in California and Disney Cruise Line — had $6.4 billion in revenue, a 10% bump year-over-year, for the April-May-June period, and operating income of $1.7 billio