Los Angeles — Walt Disney plans to build an immersive Star Wars hotel at its resort in Orlando, Florida, as part of a flurry of investments the company’s theme-park division announced on Saturday. Disney revealed the two Star Wars-themed parks it is building will be called Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, with the one at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, set to open in 2019 and the Orlando one opening later in the same year. Disney parks and resorts division chairman Bob Chapek made the announcement at the company’s D23 Expo, a biennial event for fans held at the Anaheim Convention Centre, near the company’s Disneyland and California Adventure parks. Theme parks are Disney’s second-largest division after television. The company has been investing heavily in the business on the premise that park attractions cannot easily be copied by competitors or made obsolete by new technology. "There’s no virtual-reality experience in the world that’s going to replicate what you get physically by walki...
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