Disney World - Orlando, Florida

The Walt Disney World Resort, additionally known as Walt Disney World or Disney World, is an enjoyment motel complicated in Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista, Florida, United States, close to the cities of Orlando and Kissimmee. Opened on October 1, 1971, the hotel is owned and operated with the aid of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, a division of The Walt Disney Company. The property covers almost 25,000 acres (39 sq mi; one hundred and one km2), of which 1/2 has been used. The hotel involves 4 theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Disney's Animal Kingdom), two water parks (Disney's Blizzard Beach and Disney's Typhoon Lagoon), 31 themed hotel hotels, 9 non-Disney hotels, various golf courses, a tenting resort, and different leisure venues, inclusive of the outside buying middle Disney Springs.

Designed to complement Disneyland in Anaheim, California, which had opened in 1955, the complicated was once developed through Walt Disney in the 1960s. "The Florida Project", as it was once known, used to be supposed to current a distinct imaginative and prescient with its very own various set of attractions. Walt Disney's unique plans are additionally known for the inclusion of an "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" (EPCOT), a deliberate neighborhood meant to serve as a testbed for new city-living innovations. 

Walt Disney died on December 15, 1966, at some stage in the preliminary planning of the complex. After his death, the business enterprise wrestled with the thinking of whether or not to deliver the Disney World task to fruition. However, Walt's older brother, Roy, got here out of retirement to make certain Walt's largest dream used to be realized. Construction started out in 1967, with the organization as a substitute constructing a hotel comparable to Disneyland, leaving behind the experimental principles for a deliberate community. The Magic Kingdom was once the first theme park to open in the complex, in 1971, observed with the aid of Epcot (1982), Disney's Hollywood Studios (1989), and Disney's Animal Kingdom (1998). It used to be Roy who insisted the identity of the whole complicated be modified from Disney World to Walt Disney World, making sure that human beings would be mindful that the undertaking was once Walt's dream.

In 2018, Walt Disney World was once the most visited holiday lodge in the world, with a common annual attendance of extra than fifty-eight million. The inn is the flagship vacation spot of Disney's global corporate corporation and has come to be a famous staple in American culture. In 2020, Walt Disney World used to be chosen to host the NBA Bubble for play of the 2019–20 season of the National Basketball Association to resume at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. Walt Disney World (as properly as Disneyland) is additionally protected by means of an FAA prohibited airspace region that restricts all airspace things to do except approval from the Federal authorities of the United States, which includes utilization of drones; this stage of safety is in any other case solely provided to American indispensable infrastructure (like the Pantex nuclear weapons plant), army bases, the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area Special Flight Rules Area, legitimate presidential travels, and Camp David.

In 2020, Disney World made 6,500 personnel redundant and solely operated at 25% capability after reopening throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.