Walt Disney World Hospitality and Recreation Corporation

The Walt Disney World Hospitality and Recreation Corporation, along with the Walt Disney World Company, Walt Disney Travel Company, Incorporated, and the Reedy Creek Improvement District, owns the land in the Walt Disney World Resort. These are all wholly owned subsidiaries of the Walt Disney Company.

Recreacres, Incorporated was incorporated in Delaware in or before 1968 to help buy up property for the Walt Disney World Resort, most of which had already been bought by Compass East Corporation, now Walt Disney World Company.

On January 19, 1971, Recreacres, Incorporated changed its name to Buena Vista Land Company, Incorporated.

On September 6, 1973, Buena Vista Land Company, Incorporated changed its name to Buena Vista Communities, Incorporated.

On June 22, 1998, Buena Vista Communities, Incorporated changed its name to Walt Disney World Hospitality and Recreation Corporation.

Harvest Groves, Incorporated was merged into the Walt Disney World Hospitality and Recreation Corporation on September 30, 1999. This company was named Fischer and Howard, Corporation (which was organized July 1, 1976 to consolidate several small farms in the area) until June 22, 1993; the renaming probably happened soon after the Walt Disney Company took control of it.

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  • Walter Elias Disney
  • Roy Oliver Disney
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  • Robert Iger
  • Jay Rasulo
  • Alan N. Braverman
  • Ronald L. Iden
  • Brent Woodford
  • Jayne Parker
  • Zenia Mucha
  • Preston Padden
  • Christine M. McCarthy
  • Kevin Mayer
Board of directors
  • Susan Arnold
  • John S. Chen
  • Judith Estrin
  • Robert Iger (Chairman and CEO)
  • Fred Langhammer
  • Aylwin Lewis
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  • Annual revenue USD 63.1 billion (2010)
  • Employees 150,000 (2008)
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    I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber, poking
    among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys.
    Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

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    Angela Davis (b. 1944)

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    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)