Is Harry Potter telling the future for the theme park business?

If you want to understand what’s happening in the theme park industry right now, just look back a decade or so.
In 2009, attendance was tanking at the Universal Orlando Resort — down more than 10 percent over the year before, according to the Themed Entertainment Association/AECOM Theme Index report. The economy was just beginning to recover from the Great Recession, but other parks were seeing modest increases that year, including big gains at Disneyland.
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