{"id":10233,"date":"2026-09-07T21:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/?post_type=chart&#038;p=10233"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:24:39","slug":"capex-2026","status":"publish","type":"chart","link":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/chart\/capex-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Capex Spending (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px; font-family: Geologica; color: #19a48a;\">Attractions eat capital.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/viz_capex_pct.html\" width=\"100%\" class=\"auto-height-iframe\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The heavy spenders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Haichang Ocean Park: 22.4% of revenue into park capex (FY2024)<\/li>\n<li>Universal Studios: 21.6% (FY2022, the Epic Universe construction era)<\/li>\n<li>Disney Parks &amp; Experiences: 20.2% (FY2025), reflecting its announced multi-year domestic expansion program<\/li>\n<li>Round1: 16.1% (FY2025) and Six Flags: 15.5% (FY2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The middle band runs 11\u201314%: Ancol Dreamland Resort in Jakarta at 14.0% (FY2024), Hong Kong Disneyland at 13.4% (FY2025), Tokyo Disney Resort&#8217;s theme park segment at 13.2% (FY2025), Dave &amp; Buster&#8217;s at 11.1% (FY2025), and SeaWorld&#8217;s core capex at 11.0% (FY2025). Oriental Land&#8217;s hotel segment required just 2.3% of revenue in capex (FY2025) versus 13.2% for its parks, indicating that hotels are far less capital-hungry than portfolios of rides that must be refreshed to sustain attendance.<\/p>\n<p>As a rule of thumb, a competitive theme park spends 10\u201315% of revenue on capex in a normal year, and 20%+ when building something transformational.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'EB Garamond';\">Posted 9\/2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10238,"template":"","class_list":["post-10233","chart","type-chart","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chart\/10233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chart"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chart"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theparkdb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}