A new nature-themed getaway is coming to Disney’s Bay Lake in Orlando.

Set to launch in 2022, the not-yet-named resort, which will include more than 900 rooms will be built on a shoreside expanse between the company’s Wilderness Lodge and Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground.

According to Terri Schultz, senior vice president and general manager of Disney Vacation Club, the design for the luxury destination will draw on "Walt Disney’s lifelong love and respect for nature".

As well as being the "father of modern theme parks", Mr Disney famously displayed his enthusiasm for wildlife in the 1950s in True-Life Adventures – an Academy Award-winning series of nature documentaries.

The future hotel, which is set to be the international conglomerate’s 16th Vacation Club, will follow the debut in 2019 of its Riviera Resort and Coronado Springs Resort.

Speaking on the new development, George A. Kalogridis, president of Walt Disney World Resort. "We continue to add new attractions, new lands — and these beautiful accommodations will be right in the heart of all that magic."