COVID-19 & Coasters: Coronavirus Impacts on the Amusement Industry

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A little more info regarding pay for the Universal employees...

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Vice President Mike Pence just announced during the daily White House briefing that the Paycheck Protection Program will also apply to seasonal businesses and that more information would be released tonight. Not sure what this will mean for companies like Cedar Fair and Seaworld.

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mtorange said:
Vice President Mike Pence just announced during the daily White House briefing that the Paycheck Protection Program will also apply to seasonal businesses and that more information would be released tonight. Not sure what this will mean for companies like Cedar Fair and Seaworld.

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Probably will not apply they will likely be considered to big for it unless I am completely misunderstanding the qualifications.
 
horsesboy said:
Probably will not apply they will likely be considered to big for it unless I am completely misunderstanding the qualifications.
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You're right... It's for SMALL businesses...

Small businesses with 500 or fewer employees—including nonprofits, veterans organizations, tribal concerns, self-employed individuals, sole proprietorships, and independent contractors—are eligible.
 
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The submission was withdrawn at the request of Dorney Park, to be put up for public discussion. It very likely was delayed due to company strategy changing because of covid-19 delaying the operating season and cutting into revenue.
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Sorry @b.mac I wanted to pull my reply over here because it's not Dorney Park specific.

I think we're going to see very very few 2021 projects from parks to keep spending down. I think more likely we will see new guest experiences that parks can do without pouring a ton of money into it.
 
warfelg said:
Sorry @b.mac I wanted to pull my reply over here because it's not Dorney Park specific.

I think we're going to see very very few 2021 projects from parks to keep spending down. I think more likely we will see new guest experiences that parks can do without pouring a ton of money into it.
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Which is what Six Flags is doing per my triple tweets earlier in this thread. By what I've been told things will likely just be delayed a year but the sentiments keep changing as time marches on.
 
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Which is what Six Flags is doing per my triple tweets earlier in this thread. By what I've been told things will likely just be delayed a year but the sentiments keep changing as time marches on.
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My bad, I missed that. I hope across the industry guest experience things that improve are entry gates, restroom quality (seriously every parks restroom I've been to looks like a shady truck stop), and retrain all staff across the board. Along with events and stuff of that like. Like I said in the BGW thread, it would be nice to see all parks also take a serious look at using the extra downtime to get some extreme cleaning done.
 
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err... yeah. Those also are getting cut at Six Flags. I don't know how Cedar Fair is fully responding to the income hit, yet.
 
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err... yeah. Those also are getting cut at Six Flags. I don't know how Cedar Fair is fully responding to the income hit, yet.
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Interesting. So I would guess that Six Flags is going to bank on just being open in 2021 will be enough after being closed some or most of 2020? I mean I guess it would work, but I'd be skeptical that it really would work. I think having something to advertise why people need to come out would help, and it doesn't have to be a ride. Hm, I guess I can really see where the amusement industry as a whole is just not knowing what to do.

I guess back to my earlier comment in the BGW specific thread: If this goes on long enough where a 2020 season is a wash I wonder how many parks decide to hold off opening the new attraction for a year (as opposed to force open them in a Halloween event or Christmas event) to have it open in 2021?
 
I would venture to guess, as we keep "Covid-ing" deeper into the operating season, that corporate bean counters and lawyers are investigating what commitments/contracts for 2021+ can be cancelled or delayed. Disney already has shut down a number of projects; notably the website change for Avengers Campus to "coming soon" from the previously posted July 18.
 
The negotiations with the unions weren't about if they can prevent the furloughs, but rather the specifics of how the furloughs were to be conducted. Sadly, this was coming.
 
I think Disney furloughing that many employees should not fill us with hope for much of a 2020 season anywhere.
 
I don’t know. The furloughing might not necessarily indicate that the parks plan to stay closed for much longer than we think. Even if the predicted early June opening is still correct, furloughing employees could be a wise business decision. Paying 40-something thousand employees is a tremendous loss even for the next month and a half while the parks aren’t generating revenue, so furloughing simply stops that bleeding for the time being.
 
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