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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Caroline Reid and Christian Sylt

Disneyland Paris conjures up bumper profits despite strikes

a fake horse and carriage goes past a crowd outside a pink turreted castle
The resort’s fairytale atmosphere was interrupted last summer as hundreds of staff repeated marched on strike through the parks. Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images

Disney’s Parisian theme park complex has delivered a welcome boost to the embattled Hollywood giant, generating $343.4m (€317m) in profits and royalties despite a wave of strikes last summer.

Sales at Disneyland Paris – Europe’s most-visited tourist destination – were driven to record levels by higher room rates and the opening of a site built around Marvel’s hit Avengers movies.

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