Anaheim Vacations, Anaheim Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Anaheim Vacation Guide

Located in the famous Orange County region of California, Anaheim is a city that is well known around the world not only for its various sports teams and convention center but for its collection of theme parks, better known as Disneyland, although these are broken up into Disneyland and California Adventure, which is the latest addition to the empire.

Prior to Disneyland opening in the mid 20th century, Anaheim was simply an industrial town founded by German wine makers back in 1857. Unfortunately the grapes were destroyed in the 1880s by a plague of insects and the city began to transform and grow until it was a major orange grove and farming community until Walt Disney took the town and transformed it from simple agricultural town into an empire that changed the face of America. Once Disneyland came, the town transformed from rural center to industrial town and a major tourist destination for visitors from all corners of the globe.

These days Anaheim is largely a tourist town, with its major industry being tourism as a whole. The Walt Disney Company is the city’s largest employer, but beyond that is the Anaheim Convention Center, which is a major hotspot for various national conferences throughout the year. Nearly all of the hotels and resorts in the city offer some form of package to Disneyland and the affiliated theme parks. In addition, the LA Angels of Anaheim were the 2002 World Series winners, and the NHL team, the Anaheim Ducks, won the Stanley Cup in 2007. All in all, the city boasts more than just the Disneyland theme parks, although those are by far the main attraction of the city. Recently, the city underwent a 4.2 billion dollar facelift that not only cleaned up the city but installed one of the first-ever police forces that specifically looks after tourists.