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It’s no doubt that creating a family oriented theme park based on popular, beloved cartoon characters and imagination was a good idea. From Cinderella’s castle to the famous Main Street, U.S.A, there’s something extraordinary lying around every corner. Walt Disney World, other wise known as “the happiest place on earth”, or the place “where dreams come true”, was founded by a man with a dream of creating a place where children and parents could spend time together while making amazing memories. However, this extravagant amusement park is only one of the major accomplishments of Walt Disney.

Triple E’s main clients will be local area businesses who require access to marketing and event planning services but have no marketing/planning departments of their own. By focusing on businesses that have these specific needs, Triple E Marketing and Events will be able to provide smaller organizations access to comprehensive and combined event planning and marketing strategies, allowing them to create brand recognition and increased profitability for their businesses.

Two of the biggest theme parks in Orlando, Florida are Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida. Both of the theme parks are huge competitors when it comes to getting customers and money. In this essay I will show you which of the two theme parks is better than the other, by using multiple different categories that theme parks use when making their parks.

The external environment of the theme park industry on the Gold Coast plays a significant role in determining if the industry is profitable. According to Hubbard, Rice and Beamish (2008), the external environment is the factors outside the organisation that influence strategy and is made up of two environments; the macro-environment and the industry environment. The macro-environment includes the general factors that affect growth of an industry, whereas an analysis of the industry environment determines the profitability of an industry. An analysis of the Gold Coast theme park industry environment will determine the industry’s profitability by analysing the strength of the following five forces; the threat of new entrants, bargaining

In this case there has been a recognition of a trend, which is the trend of people going to theme parks during the weekends for entertainment of them as well as their children. Also here is an existing need for entertainment of this kind. Therefore, an opportunity exists

Amusement parks are in the umbrella of the hospitality industry. One of its goals is to provide entertainment for all guests. It has been that way since the beginning and has been advancing ever since. If anyone had to say it the best, it will have to be the father of the amusement parks, Walt Disney. “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy” (GoodReads). He understood that how important amusement parks are, how keeping the original charm that the guest grew to love and advancing that park to make the guests continue to enjoy the park for years to come. Understanding the past, present and future of the amusement park will show how these parks have lasted for years and years.

Internet sales are growing rapidly within the industry, and amongst all retail, eventually they might start to see Amazon as a major competitor. Stores like Home Depot and Lowe's have interactive websites, with the ability purchase items not seen in stores, how to guides, project ideas, and quotes for specific jobs. Trends in the industry are moving to more green products, private label and exclusive brands, more interactive retail experience with new payment options. This would utilize modern technology to increase sales. Demand which has been driven by home remodeling and building doesn’t fluctuate too much, typically minor shifts within the economic cycles.

The Walt Disney Company has seen their share of success in taking their parks and resorts into global markets. “60 years ago, the first Disney theme park opened, in California and was the brainchild of Walt Disney himself, who was motivated by the lack of entertainment options available to him and his two young daughters.” (Forbes, 2016). Disneyland California penetrated the market rapidly, and its popularity led to the opening of Disney World in Florida, followed by global expansion in Tokyo, Paris, and Hong Kong. Their latest expansion came in June 2016, on a 963 acres’ site in Shanghai, China (Xu, 2012). After one year in operation, Shanghai Disneyland is outpacing their most optimistic projections, and the park’s

According to the President of Economic Research Associates (ERA) in the TEA/ERA Amusement Park Attendance Report (2007) John Robinett

The anticipation of heightened demand dynamically affects admission price for theme parks. Walt Disney World and Disneyland recently introduced variable pricing in 2016 so that park tickets will cost more during holidays and peak period weekends. This only applies to one-day tickets, and not multi-day packages. Disney’s major competitor, Comcast’s Universal Studios, has also adopted demand-based pricing. One difference though, is that their system provides incentives for visiting on off-peak days, and/or booking tickets online in advance. Guests can get $5 to $20 off the walk-up price, with the bigger discounts saved for midweek, low-demand periods. A variety of other discounts, packages, and promotions are available to guests that are all designed to bring down the per-day admissions cost for visitors, while simultaneously ensuring a longer stay for guests. A longer stay is a win-win situation because it means more money spent overall at theme parks, restaurants, hotels, and gift shops.

This report is designed to introduce an understanding of market segmentation and marketing strategy integrated with the exiting business - Dreamworld. It clarifies how Dreamworld - the largest theme park in Australia segments its market, and how the segmentation is reflected in its marketing strategy.

The Disney theme park is an organization that focuses on customer satisfaction. The management style at the Disney theme park is very diverse and non-traditional. All employees from janitors to performers are called “cast members.” Managers at the Disney theme park focus on the role of employees in service delivery. Employees are broadly trained in communication, quality awareness, and customer service. Employees at the Disney theme park have regular team meetings for effectiveness evaluations. Disney theme park employees are additionally made

The amusement park Busch Gardens is confronted with a few marketing challenges which include the need for more direct and interactive marketing strategies for the park through its marketing strategies throughout the marketing mix. This will be done by assisting Mr. Dan Dipiazzo and his team with the revamping and providing several recommendations to overcome the obstacles the Busch Gardens team is facing with their marketing issues.

Competing amusement parks has upgraded their attractions to attract more consumers and Disney is has recently strategizing this approach to a more concentrated perspective. This can ultimately lower their revenues until the plan is complete.

Pelican Stores, a division of National Clothing, is a chain of women's apparel stores operating throughout the country. The chain recently ran a promotion in which discount coupons were sent to customers of other National Clothing stares. Data collected for a sample of 100 in-store credit card transactions at Pelican Stores during one day while the promotion was running are contained in the file named Pelican Stores. Table 2.17 shows a portion of the data set. The Proprietary Card method of payment refers to charges made using a National Clothing charge card. Customers who made a purchase using a discount coupon are referred to as promotional customers and customers who made a purchase but did not use