A study by California State University-Fullerton credits Disneyland Resort with creating $8.5 billion in economic impact and more than 78,000 jobs in Southern California.
Burbank-based Walt Disney Co.’s Parks and Resorts division commissioned the study, its first since 2013; the resort’s impact has risen 50% since then, the new report said.
Anil Puri, Aaron Popp and Adrian Fleissig of CSUF’s Woods Center for Economic Analysis and Forecasting conducted the study, using an input-output model that considered direct, indirect and induced impacts between October 2017 and September 2018.
Disneyland Resort—three hotels, two amusement parks and a retail and restaurant district—is OC’s largest employer with 31,000 workers, and gets more than 20 million visitors a year.
