{"id":449370,"date":"2026-11-06T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/449370\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:14:15","slug":"seaworld-orlando-attendance-drops-parent-company-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/449370\/","title":{"rendered":"SeaWorld Orlando attendance drops, parent company reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793974455_162_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">United Parks and Resorts, the parent company of SeaWorld Orlando, Discovery Cove, and Busch Gardens in Tampa, reported a decline in attendance across its theme parks during the third quarter.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to its quarterly investor call this morning, fewer people visited the parks in Q3, but those who came spent more money.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The company said bad weather and a drop in international visitors contributed to missing its revenue targets.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">It also noted that more passes were sold this year and expressed hope for a better outlook in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Parks Central <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Award-winning anchor\/reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news-team\/351f443e-c062-4c78-bd11-b200719d37cd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanika Dange<\/a> is the WESH 2 theme parks expert covering all things coasters, animals, park expansions and more. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Send ideas and tips to Sanika at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/seaworld-orlando-attendance-drops\/mailto:sdange@hearst.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sdange@hearst.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">You can follow Sanika on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SanikaDangeTV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sanikadangetv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@sanikadangetv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 United Parks and Resorts, the parent company of SeaWorld Orlando, Discovery Cove, and Busch Gardens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[913,19617,32744,1292,174636,5863,139,141,140,95026,3032,174637,174635,174634,12058,174638,35230,918],"class_list":["post-449370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-animal","tag-busch-gardens","tag-decline","tag-facebook","tag-few-people","tag-morning","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-parent-company","tag-park","tag-quarterly-investor-call","tag-sanika","tag-seaworld-orlando-attendance-drop","tag-theme-park","tag-thing-coaster","tag-tip","tag-wesh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}