Public Entertainment : Amusement Parks

The amusement parks played a nostalgic role amongst the Chinese Singaporeans for their total entertainment experiences. However, in Gay World Amusement Park, its indoor stadium is sentimental to many Chinese Singaporeans. Over the years, Singapore had advocated towards being a world class sporting arena, especially with the hosting of Youth Olympic Game in 2010 and the opening of the new Sporting Hub this year. To see the development of sports over the years, this paper tries to understand how Chinese

Leisure at the turn of the twentieth century was a new found type of freedom and entertainment, not only for the children, but for the entire family. It was a way for numerous families to spend quality time together but in a more modern and convenient way. Entertainment before the twentieth century consisted of household entertainment, such as board games, and “backyard games” like tennis, and football amongst others. When compared to leisure in the twentieth century, many of these activities were

(1986) . Cheap Amusements. New York: Temple University. In Cheap Amusements, Kathy Peiss studies the customs, values, public styles, and ritualized interactions expressed in leisure time of the working-class women living in New York. The social experiences of these young women gives different clues to the ways in which these women constructed and gave meaning to their lives between the years of 1880-1920. The laboring poor’s leisure activity was brief, casual, and non-commercial. Amusement was and had

Theme Park Investigation for TRC, Inc. Prepared by Jeorge Vega Director of Vega Consulting Group Report Distributed May 7, 2010 Prepared for TRC, Inc. INTRODUCTION This report examines the current state of the theme park industry and how TRC, Inc. can expand into the state of Florida. Florida already has theme parks that range from Disney World to Busch Gardens, zoos and aquariums. Vega Consulting group will analyze and investigate future possibilities for TRC, Inc. Theme parks

Trails Family Amusement Park remains as the main destination for all family members throughout Chicago, thanks to its massive arrays entertaining features. This is the place where families can have such warm and welcoming celebrations like birthdays or other kinds of family gatherings. With special offers for certain packages, Haunted Trails Family Amusement Park always entertains everyone, at all ages. The owner, J. Richard Oltmann is very much different, as compared to other amusement park owners.

Disneyland Brand Audit Disneyland is the leading brand in amusement park industry. The first Disney theme park, Disneyland was opened on July 17, 1955 in Anaheim, California (The Walt Disney n.d.). Disneyland is the core asset of the American media giant, the Fortune global 500 company Walt Disney group. Per Christian Sylt’s article, in 2013 financial year, its 11 Disneyland parks around the world contribute one third of its total $45 billion revenue and 20.7% of its $10.7 billion operating profit

segment, studio entertainment. Walt had the desire to branch out of the studio business and wanted to lean towards the idea of having an amusement park. With years of planning and construction Disneyland was opened on July 17, 1955. With the success of Disneyland, Walt wanted to expand even more and open

The Walt Disney Company, also known as Disney, is a multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. The history of Disney dates back all the way back to 1923. The main character of this company is a mouse, Mickey Mouse. Disney is the world’s largest media conglomerate, its assets include movies, television, publishing,

 A. At the turn of the 20th century radical social changes began to define the American culture, and a major part that factored into these new changes was the creation of the amusement park. According to John F. Kasson’s Amusing The Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century, the amusement park (the amusement parks at Coney Island especially) played a major role in the shift of lifestyle, morals, and overall attitudes of our society. John Kasson’s Amusing the Million has many societal and

intellectual property rights in the entertainment products and services they create. Actually, Disney is related to the government also because since it was created, there have been many propaganda films for the US government during WW2. “The government looked to Walt Disney more than any other studio chief as a builder of public morale providing instruction and training the sailors and soldiers” (Radeska 2016). On the other hand, when Walt Disney had created these parks, he didn’t do it with the taxpayer’s