Ecotourism Disney Style

21 August 2001 - 7:00am

Disney is creating a resort in the center of the African forests -- in Florida.

"Once tourist attractions were tied to physical places: beaches, geysers, ancient ruins. Resorts were for the wealthy. The National Park System was barely in existence a century ago. Average workers had little time off to play, anyway.But over the last century two things happened: Tourism became a huge industry aimed at the mass market once unions fought for and won the paid vacation. And experience became detached from place."

Source: San Jose Mercury News, August 20, 2001
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.