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United Parks & Resorts Inc.(formerlySeaWorld Entertainment Inc.[3]orSeaWorld Parks & Entertainment) is an Americantheme parkand entertainment company headquartered inOrlando, Florida.[4]The company owns and operates twelve recreational destinations in the United States, including eighttheme parksand fourwater parks.Notable brands within its portfolio includeSeaWorldandBusch Gardens.In May 2018,Themed Entertainment Associationand the global management firmAECOMreported that the then SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, operating under its previous name, ranked ninth in the world for attendance among theme park companies, led by parksSeaWorld OrlandoandBusch Gardens Tampa Bay.[5]

United Parks & Resorts Inc.
FormerlyBusch Entertainment Corporation (1979–2009)
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment (2009–2013)
SeaWorld Entertainment (2013–2024)
Company typePublic
NYSE:PRKS
Russell 2000 Component
IndustryTheme parkoperator
Entertainment
FoundedFebruary 19, 1959;65 years ago(1959-02-19)(as Busch Gardens)
1979;45 years ago(1979)(as Busch Entertainment Corporation)
HeadquartersOrlando, Florida,United States
Area served
United States
United Arab Emirates
Key people
Marc G. Swanson (CEO)
ProductsTheme park attractions, rides, and games
Brands
RevenueIncreaseUS$1.37 billion (2018)[1]
Increase44.8 million (2018)[1]
OwnerHill Path Capital LP (34.58%)
Number of employees
22,100 (2013)[2]
DivisionsResort Development Group
Deep Blue Creative
WebsiteOfficial website

History

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Busch Entertainment

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The Busch Garden division was incorporated in 1979 as Busch Entertainment Corporation to support its growth. That growth came the next year, with its Williamsburg location added Italy to its culture roster plus add two whole parks. Next to the Tampa Busch Gardens, theAdventure Island Water Parkopened in June.[6]

Meanwhile, in July 1980, theSesame PlaceinLanghorne, Pennsylvania,jointly planned with theChildren's Television Workshopand based onSesame Street,opened.[6]A second Sesame Place was opened inIrving, Texas,in June 1982[7]only to close a few years later on October 28, 1984; Busch Entertainment announced in January 1985 that the park would not open as scheduled in May as revenue and attendance were not as expected.[8]

In September 1989, Busch Entertainment purchasedHarcourt Brace Jovanovich Park Groupwhich includedBoardwalk and Baseball,Cypress Gardensand theSeaWorldtheme park chain. The Boardwalk and Baseball theme park was closed on January 17, 1990. TheBaseball City Stadiumwould continue its operations, while the park and stadium were up for sale.[9]Busch acquired a tenth park,Water Country USAin 1992, which was near its existing Williamsburg location. In 1993, the company hit its record high attendance for all its parks with over 19 million people with a record setting year for Tampa Busch Gardens.[6]In 1995, Cypress Gardens was sold to the park's management.[10]

Busch Entertainment announced in November 1992 its joint venture withGrand Tibidaboto buildTibi GardensinSalou,Catalonia,Spainwith other adjunct developments.[11]By the park's May 1, 1995, opening, Grand Tibidabo was replaced byTussauds Group,Fecsa and La Caixa as partners and renamedPort Aventura.Universal Parks & Resortspurchase some share in 1998.[12]

The company's marketing program of a regional Florida Fun Cards season pass was launched in 2000. These pass were good for seven-months at the cost of a single admission. Being successful, the program was extended to all its parks. This was followed up in 2001 with a tiered reward card called Passport with four levels named after metals. This program gain additional contact information for its marketing database. The additional marketing the database allowed plus the two program, local pass and reward card, allowed them to stay afloatduring the economic downturn that started in 2001.[6]

In 1999, close to 200 acres of rural land was purchased by Busch Gardens Tampa so that animals could be relocated during construction of a new hotel, which ended up never being built.[13]In early 2001, the company sold theAurora SeaWorldto Six Flags, while the first reservations-only park,Discovery Cove,opened next to Orlando SeaWorld.[6]Beginning November 9, 2007, the parks collectively became known as Worlds of Discovery. Prior to the introduction of the Worlds of Discovery brand, the parks were marketed as Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks. A new price plan came along with the new name, where purchasing tickets to multiple parks would get a discount.[14]Sesame Street Bay of Play opened in 2008 at SeaWorld San Diego.[15]

Busch Entertainment promoted a number of SeaWorld Orlando executives to corporate ending with the promotion of Orlando executive vice president and general manager Jim Atchison to Busch president and chief operating officer and chairman and president Keith M. Kasen to Busch chairman and chief executive officer on December 1, 2007. With so many executives promoted and staying in Orlando, Anheuser-Busch Cos moved the entertainment unit's headquarters to Orlando in 2008. By this time, SeaWorld Orlando was seen as the company's flagship theme park.[4]

In Dubai, the company in February 2008 signed a licensing and management deal for Busch's Worlds of Discovery, a four theme park development, with Nakheel Properties, an arm of the Dubai government. Worlds of Discovery was planned to open in 2012.[16]The first phase that was planned to open in December 2012 was to consist ofSeaWorldand Aquatica Dubai. The second phase, consisting ofBusch GardensandDiscovery Covewere slated for 2015. However, theGreat Recessionprompted both Nakheel and Busch Entertainment to suspend development indefinitely in February 2009.[17]

In 2008, Anheuser-Busch was acquired by Brazilian-Belgian brewerInBev.Based on its previous acquisitions, it was widely expected that InBev would later sell off non-core assets in order to pay down the debt created by its purchase of Anheuser-Busch; the theme-park division was considered one of the most likely assets to be sold.[18]In early 2009, InBev began soliciting bids for those assets in advance of an anticipated sale.[19]As part of the plans to shed the division, Busch Entertainment ended the free beer-sampling programs at Busch Gardens Williamsburg and at nine other theme parks which have Anheuser-Busch BrewMaster's Clubs.[20]Similarly, Busch Entertainment broke from its parent company and terminated a benefit where employees of legal age received two free cases of Anheuser-Busch beer per month, a benefit that continued for the rest of the company.[20][21]At the time, InBev was thought to be considering selling the parks to the highest bidder, or spinning off Busch Entertainment as an independent company.[19]It was suggested at one point thatNBCUniversalwas interested in purchasing Busch Entertainment, and folding it into theUniversal Studios Theme Parkschain, but no official bid for the company surfaced.[22]However, other asset sales, such as the sale ofTsingtao Breweryand an issuance of $3 billion in new long-term debt in May 2009, raised over $11 billion since the start of 2009, temporarily reducing the need to sell Busch Entertainment.[23]Other cited reasons for an apparent reluctance to sell off the company included still-volatile credit markets and receipt of initial bids that were lower than expected.[23]

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment

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In late 2009, theBlackstone Groupreportedly entered into negotiations to acquire Busch Entertainment.[24]The Blackstone Group already owned a partnership inUniversal OrlandoResort, and a significant interest inMerlin Entertainments,which operates attractions and theme parks such asMadame TussaudsandLegoland.[24]Previous estimates have valued Busch Entertainment at US$2.5 billion – 3.0 billion.[24]

On October 7, 2009, the discussions came to fruition asAnheuser-Busch InBevannounced plans to sell Busch Entertainment Corporation to the Blackstone Group in a deal worth approximately US$2.7 billion.[25][26]As part of the deal, Blackstone maintained the current management team from Busch Entertainment and operate it as a separate entity.[25]Further, Anheuser-Busch would sign a sponsorship agreement with the company, thus allowing the two Busch Gardens parks to keep their current names and promotions, including the "Here's to the Heroes" military appreciation program.[25]In announcing the deal, Busch Entertainment PresidentJim Atchisonsaid that Blackstone's acquisition brings "an awful lot of strategic vision for us. We're going to continue to grow the business together."[25]The company was also renamed SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment.[27]

The acquisition would be done with no loss of jobs at the parks or at the company's Orlando headquarters.[26]New departments were hired to fill positions that would have previously been managed by Anheuser-Busch, such as a legal department and procurement staff.[25]The largest proposed change to the operation of the parks would be the removal of Anheuser-Busch'sClydesdalesfrom those parks that had them and the removal of the A&Eagle logos.[25]Anheuser-Busch licenses the "Busch Gardens" name to SeaWorld Entertainment perpetually.[2]

Blackstone Group began pushing SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment into other areas including plans for TV and animation divisions, expanding its consumer products unit and develop usage for its park film footage. In mid-2011, the company started the SeaWorld Pictures division with Scott Helmstedter as chief creative officer. The division's first release wasTurtle: The Incredible Journeyin June 2011. Helmstadter indicated in September 2011 that the TV and animation divisions had several items on their slate and the three entertainment units would be at MIPCOM and Kidscreen Summit 2012 looking for projects.[28]SeaWorld Entertainment agreed in January 2012 to a multi-year licensing deal with Ruckus Media, a Connecticut-based app developer, for SeaWorld's animal-based digital story books for ages three to eight.[29]Sleepy Giant Entertainment and SeaWorld Parks released Turtle Trek, its first free mobile app based on the ride of the same name.[30]SeaWorld andNelvanaEnterprises agreed in December 2012 to includeFranklin and Friendswith the SeaWorld Kids brand. Two special and co-branded books were planned.[31]

SeaWorld Entertainment

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On December 27, 2012, SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment announced that it had filed for aninitial public offering(IPO) of stock, while changing its name to SeaWorld Entertainment at the IPO. Part of the proceeds from this sale would go to Blackstone Group, which would retain a controlling interest in the company. It began trading April 19, 2013, on theNew York Stock Exchangewith a ticker symbol of SEAS.[32][27]

In September 2013, SeaWorld Kids media unit andLittle Airplane Productionsagreed to develop a new conservation and animal themed TV show for preschoolers.[33]The property was announced in March 2014 asBilly Green Builds![34]

FollowingCNN's broadcast of the documentaryBlackfish,which criticized the company's handling of killer whale exhibits, SeaWorld's profits went into a steep decline and its share values plummeted. SeaWorld said in August 2014 that the film had hurt revenues at its San Diego, California park.[35]On December 11, 2014, SeaWorld announced that chief executiveJim Atchisonwould resign, with an interim successor replacing him on January 15, 2015. The company's share price had fallen 44% in 2014.[35]

The company andVillage Roadshowin 2014 signed a development agreement for additional Asian theme parks.[36]By November 2015, SeaWorld and Evans Hotels formed a partnership to explore the development for a Mission Bay SeaWorld-branded resort hotel connected to the San Diego park.[37]By December 2016, the Village Roadshow agreement expired.[36]SeaWorld revived its Dubai plans in December 2016 with Miral but with only a SeaWorld Park joining four other parks onYas Islandwhen it opens in 2022.[38]

In August 2015, SeaWorld announced an 84% drop in second quarter 2015 net income compared to the year before. Total income was down 3% from 2014 to 2015. Visitors fell by 100,000, from 6.58 million to 6.48 million.[39][40][41][42]

The board of directors appointed Joel Manby as president and chief executive officer starting April 7, 2015.[43]While the fully integrated resorts model, resorts, hotels and retail, has been on the drawing boards for the company at various times, Manby considered it a key to his plans for the company. As it seems that their parks are not considered destination parks but complementary parks perIn Parks Magazine.Two new directors were appointed to the company board that held positions at fully integrated theme park resorts.[13]SeaWorld Parks formed its Resort Development Group on February 1, 2016, with the appointment of the Vice President of Resort Development Steve Iandolo.[44]Anthony Esparza also became the new SeaWorld Chief Creative Officer (CCO).[13]Deep Blue Creative, announced as a new unit in early November 2016, is mostly the former SeaWorld media unit, less licensing and consumer products, led by the previous CCO.[45]The first projects under the Deep Blue unit are Kraken Virtual Reality (VR) ride at SeaWorld Orlando, Wave Breaker: The Rescue Coaster at SeaWorld San Antonio and Electric Ocean end-of-day event debuting summer of 2017 at SeaWorlds Orlando and San Diego.[46]

On March 24, 2017, Blackstone Group announced that it would sell its 21% stake to Zhonghong Group.[47]Zhonghong Group was restricted in purchasing additional shares and sale of their shares for two years. They added two additional directors to the board for Zhonghong. SeaWorld agreed to provide advice and support services to Zhonghong Holding, a Zhonghong Group affiliate, in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau for theme parks, water parks and family entertainment centers development.[48]

Sesame Workshop and SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment in May 2017 extended their licensing agreement for Sesame Place with plans to build a second US location to open in mid-2021. The extended agreement lasts through 2031 with the option for additional locations.[49]At SeaWorld Orlando in early 2019, Sesame Street Land opened. On October 21, 2019, it was announced that the second Sesame Place would be located in San Diego atChula Vista, California,replacing the current Aquatica San Diego, which closed at the end of the season in fall 2020. Originally set to open in 2021, its opening was delayed to March 26, 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]

Manby stepped down in late February 2018 as CEO with John Reilly being appointed as interim CEO. Esparza left as chief creative officer on March 1, 2018.[50]The company appointed Carnival Cruise chief operating officer Gus Antorcha as Seaworld CEO in February 2019 with Reilly stepping down to be COO and eventually leaving the company one month later.[5]

The company settled an annual pass class action lawsuit for $11.5 million settlement, where the company automatically renewed annual passes after the end of the originally ordered pass expiration.[51]In August 2018, the company extended its licensing agreement forRudolph and Friendswith Character Arts to appear at their parks' holiday events until January 2024.[52]

In May 2019, Zhonghong Group defaulted on its loans which were secured by Seaworld common stock. The company turned its shares over to its lenders. Thus Seaworld terminated its agreements for park development with the group. Yongli Wang, one of the group's representative on the board of director resigned while the other board chairman Yoshi Maruyama was asked to stay on the board.[53]Seaworld Entertainment bought back 5.6 million shares from an affiliate ofPacific Alliance Groupin late May 2019. While Pacific Alliance Group separately sold 13.2 million shares to Hill Path Capital. Hill Path share of the company after the purchases was a controlling stake of 34.5%. Seaworld agreed to have three Hill Path director nominees join its board.[54]

After seven months in the post, CEO Gus Antorcha resigned on September 16, 2019. That same day, its Orlando call center was laid off and replaced by an outsourcing company.[55]The board hired Sergio D. Rivera, previously president and CEO ofILG Inc.’s vacation ownership business, as a replacement in November 2019 and would join the board of directors along with Neha Jogani Narang.[56]On April 6, 2020, Rivera resigned as CEO with chief financial officer Marc Swanson appointed as interim CEO.[57]

United Parks and Resorts Inc.

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On January 30, 2024 the company announced that it would be changing its name toUnited Parks and Resorts Inc.on February 12, 2024. This rebranding will not affect the names of theSeaWorldorBusch Gardensfamily of parks. The company changed its ticker symbol to PRKS on February 13, 2024.[58]

Current properties

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Park Location
Adventure Island Tampa,Florida,United States
Aquatica Orlando Orlando,Florida,United States
Aquatica San Antonio San Antonio,Texas,United States
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Tampa,Florida,United States
Busch Gardens Williamsburg Williamsburg,Virginia,United States
Discovery Cove Orlando,Florida,United States
SeaWorld Orlando Orlando,Florida,United States
SeaWorld San Antonio San Antonio,Texas,United States
SeaWorld San Diego San Diego,California,United States
SeaWorld Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates
Sesame Place Philadelphia Langhorne,Pennsylvania,United States
Sesame Place San Diego San Diego,California,United States
Water Country USA Williamsburg,Virginia,United States

Former properties

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Busch Gardens parks

SeaWorld parks

Other parks

Other units

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  • Resort Development Group, hotel and retail development unit[44]
  • Deep Blue Creative, creative division[45]
    • Theme Park Development, U.S.A., unit consisting of two teams to develop attractions, food experiences and retailing
      • Project Management
      • Guest Experiences
    • Theme Park Development, Global – feasibility, development and site evaluation of new parks and new business models
    • Resort Development – land planning, resort and hotel development, new hospitality experiences
    • Events and Entertainment – in resort live entertainment support team for theater, restaurant and retail to encourage repeat visits
    • Media Enterprises – film, television, and music business
    • Expedition X -prototyping and new technology

Media projects

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Project Type Date Co-producers notes
Saving A Species: The Great Penguin Rescue TV special 2006 Discovery Kids[65]Outstanding Children/Youth/Family Special Emmy at the 34th annual Daytime Emmy Awards[66]
Turtle: The Incredible Journey film 2011 [28]
digital story books Ruckus Media [29]
Turtle Trek app Sleepy Giant Entertainment [30]
SeaWorld Kids with
Franklin and Friends
  • multimedia:
  • 2 specials
  • books
[31]
Billy Green Builds! animated
TV series 		Little Airplane Productions preschool, 52 x 11-minute[34]
Yonaguni DQ Entertainment
Rollman Entertainment		 52 x 11, kids 6-11[67]
Sea Rescue documentary TV series April 7, 2012—[66]September 29, 2018 Litton's Weekend Adventure
Wildlife Docs October 2013—2019[68] Litton's Weekend Adventure(2013–2018)
One Magnificent Morning(2018–2019)

See also

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