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Article: Theme Park Spending Lifts Euro Disney
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- January 11, 2005
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AP Online
01-11-2005
Dateline: PARIS
Troubled theme park operator Euro Disney SCA said Tuesday that increased spending per visitor at its French theme park lifted revenue 3 percent in its first fiscal quarter.
Revenue came in at 269 million euros ($353 million) for the October-December period compared with 262 million euros a year earlier, excluding the effects of selloffs, acquisitions, currency fluctuations and accounting changes.
Revenue from the Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Studios parks outside the French capital rose 4 percent to 137 million euros ($180 million).
That outweighed a decline of 96.5 million euros ($127 million), or 6 percent, at Euro Disney's hotels business. The ...