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Disney has announced it plans to physique a new taxable parkland and resort in Abu Dhabi, the company's archetypal determination successful the Middle East and its seventh parkland astir the world.
The Walt Disney Company reached an statement with the Abu Dhabi-based institution Miral, which volition physique the taxable parkland successful the United Arab Emirates capital, the announcement said.
The parkland is acceptable to beryllium built connected Abu Dhabi's Yas Island, which was developed by Miral and is already the determination of aggregate taxable parks, including Ferrari World, Warner Bros. World and SeaWorld.
The attraction volition "offer signature Disney entertainment, themed accommodations, unsocial eating and retail experiences, and storytelling successful a mode that celebrates some the practice of Disney and the futuristic and taste essence of Abu Dhabi," the institution said.
Disney hopes to pull visitors from the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia that aren't adjacent to its different parks successful Florida, California, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
The institution did not springiness a timeline for completion oregon an expected outgo to physique the Abu Dhabi park.
The United Arab Emirates has had a past of alleged labour abuses with a mostly migrant workforce, among different quality rights concerns.
"Migrant workers proceed to look wide abuses similar wage theft, amerciable recruitment fees, and passport confiscation, which permission workers successful situations that whitethorn magnitude to forced labor," according to the Human Rights Watch's World Report 2025.
Additionally, outdoor migrant workers, who are "among the astir susceptible to heat-related illnesses and death," look "inadequate vigor protections," the enactment said.
Nicole Brown Chau is simply a lawman managing exertion for CBSNews.com. She writes and edits nationalist news, wellness stories, explainers and more.
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