Port Disney in July 1990, first presented to city and port officials in closed meetings, then revealed in a public meeting on July 31, 1990. This was followed by the publication of "The Port Disney News", which was mailed directly to homes in 1991 to drum up public support. The project was canceled in December 1991 in favor of the planned WestCOT theme park in Anaheim. Some elements of the theme park that was to have been built at Port Disney were later incorporated into Tokyo DisneySea, which opened in 2001. On March 6, 1992, Disney announced that it would end its
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts theme parks hosted over 140.4 million guests, making Disney Parks the world's most visited theme park company worldwide,<ref name="TEA/AECOM"></ref> with United Kingdom-based Merlin Entertainments coming in second. It is by far Disney's largest business segment according to employee headcount, with approximately 130,000 of the company's 180,000 employees as of 2015. In March 2018, Parks and Resorts was merged with Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media to form Walt Disney Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products. In 1949, Ice Capades added a Disney segment to its performances. Costumes from those shows were used at the opening of Disneyland in 1955 with some