TEA releases estimated attendance figures

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

The new Expedition Everest roller coaster helped boost Disney's Animal Kingdom's attendance by 8.6 percent to 8.9 million people last year, the largest jump at any major theme park, according to new estimates produced by TEA Inc. and Economics Research Associates. Their 2006 theme park attendance research continues annual work ERA did for many years for Amusement Business magazine until that publication closed last year.