This is stupid and not my primary concern in all this...but man am I worried about cuts to EU because of a potential bad year
In many ways, I think Comcast/Universal would much rather there be a market crash/recession NOW (people have been on edge about this happening for a few years now, anyway) than for Epic Universe to open and THEN there be a huge market and tourism crash. By 2023, we should hopefully be well past this and stabilized again, which is an ideal situation when opening a new theme park.I don’t see why there would be any. Now show times and operating hours right now....
Another update: we’ve had at least a dozen more conference/trade show cancellations in the past few days. Miami, Canada, Chicago, Orlando among those cities with something cancelled. We expect more. This is a busy time of year for us, so it’s pretty unnerving. Especially for our part timers who depend on a full schedule.Working in trade shows/conventions, I can tell you things are looking real bad. Had a show that was supposed to be later this month cancel in Seattle. A friend in another company had his Chicago show cancelled and he was supposed to leave this weekend.
Surprisingly, the show I’m working right now in Vegas hasn’t been cancelled, though there were serious discussions about that yesterday. It’s supposed to pull in over 130k people to the area. Mostly from North America. The Chinese and Italian delegations already cancelled their arrangements. It’s a giant construction expo that already has a lot of exhibitors’ equipment set up so I’m thinking they believe it’d be just way too difficult to arrange shipping and cancellations on this large a scale. Not a great situation in this industry right now.
Edit: Was also just texted by coworker that she just received an email saying her event was cancelled too. She was supposed to leave next week for it.
Another thing that happens in a recession is a lot of construction is mothballed or postponed so men and equipment become less expensive and more available.Got to be a silver lining here somewhere.In many ways, I think Comcast/Universal would much rather there be a market crash/recession NOW (people have been on edge about this happening for a few years now, anyway) than for Epic Universe to open and THEN there be a huge market and tourism crash. By 2023, we should hopefully be well past this and stabilized again, which is an ideal situation when opening a new theme park.
That's of course just looking at it from a business standpoint, obviously there are much more pressing real world things to deal with right now.
Another thing that happens in a recession is a lot of construction is mothballed or postponed so men and equipment become less expensive and more available.Got to be a silver lining here somewhere.
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This may cause a wee bit of disruption to the business community
Jeez. If you're going to go to guest services to wait in line to show an ID all in a prevention to not scan your finger; just don't go to the dang park.In case you are visiting the park and wish are being germ-conscious due to COVID-19, you can opt-out of using the biometric finger scan at the front gates by going to Guest Relations and showing a photo ID:
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Disney has, although I don't know how widespread they are. I didn't notice any at USF the other day.Jeez. If you're going to go to guest services to wait in line to show an ID all in a prevention to not scan your finger; just don't go to the dang park.
Has Disney or Universal started putting up temporary Purel/sanitization spots yet? If not, they should.
Finger tech is stupid. Universal and Disney should get rid of it. Six Flags MM is now photo based as is Disneyland.Jeez. If you're going to go to guest services to wait in line to show an ID all in a prevention to not scan your finger; just don't go to the dang park.
Has Disney or Universal started putting up temporary Purel/sanitization spots yet? If not, they should.
Tell him to put on a sale, I have credits thereJetBlue CEO was just interviewed on CNBC. He said airline bookings have been dropping, and they expect the drop to accelerate in the near term.
Has Disney or Universal started putting up temporary Purel/sanitization spots yet? If not, they should.
Finger tech is stupid. Universal and Disney should get rid of it.
And JetBlue is just domestic, really. They have a few Caribbean and tiny handful of SA routesJetBlue CEO was just interviewed on CNBC. He said airline bookings have been dropping, and they expect the drop to accelerate in the near term.