The Future of Theme Parks in International Tourism |by Clive B. Jones & John Robinett
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|State Of The Industry
|Theme Parks And Tourism
|Developing Trends
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|Introduction
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|Europe |
|Europe has a number of existing parks. The industry is spread throughout western Europe with a large |
|concentration of attractions in Germany, France, the Benelux countries, and the United Kingdom. Expansion|
|of the industry into southern Europe is now taking place, with several planned or implemented projects in|
|Spain, Italy, Turkey, and Greece. There are also a number of proposed projects in North Africa and the |
|Middle East. |
|Currently, the European theme park industry consists of 19 major attractions with annual attendance of |
|over 1 million, and some 45 moderate-scale attractions with attendance between 500,000 and 1 million. |
|Europe’s parks generate annual attendance of about 70 million persons, and revenues of around $1.5 |
|billion. The European industry is about 1/3 the size of the U.S. industry in terms of revenues. |
|The European market is changing, of course, with the recent opening of the EuroDisney project. |
|The watchwords for Europe are ANTICIPATION, REPOSITIONING, EXPANSION and CONSOLIDATION. |
U.S., Singapore, UK, Spain, and Germany; with Belgium, Ireland, Israel, UAE/Dubai, France making up ten countries in total.
The case “Euro Disney: First 100 days” talks about the issues faced by the Walt Disney Company when expanding to international borders. The case begins with the history of Disneyland and then describes the reasons behind its success and expansion to various states across the country. It then describes the success of Tokyo Disneyland, first Disney theme park outside America and the factors affecting it.
Since the grand opening in 1971, Walt Disney World has continuously brought dreams to life. Walter Elias Disney and his brother Roy Oliver Disney cofounded Walt Disney World in hopes of encouraging imagination among all attendees. The park continues to grow and excite visitors from all over the world. Many people deem Walt Disney World as one of the best theme parks to exist. To make this evaluation one must consider the qualities successful theme parks possess. These include entertainment for all age groups, flexible options for health needs, advanced technology, and alluring themes. While Walt Disney World may be busy, it exhibits all the necessities of an excellent theme park.
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
Euro Disney marketers have recognized a trend. People are going to theme parks during the weekends for adults as well as children entertainment. Indeed, there is an existing need for entertainment of this kind. Therefore, an opportunity exists in the European market that Euro Disney could have taken advantage of.
than most vacation destinations. Part of the ground is that tourists are the major "diligence"
In this Business Report for Luna Park, the reader would become aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the amusement park, as well as opportunities for the feature and threats to the company.
As we know, Disneyland is very success in U.S. when the first Disneyland built in Anaheim, California on 17 July, 1995. After some debate about the site for a European theme park, Michael Eisner and Jacques Chirac signed a contract for the building of s Disney theme park at Marne-la-Vallee, a region of sunflower and sugar-beet farmland and small villages located twenty miles east of Paris (Janis, F., 1998, P.247). However, the European Disneyland was not as such success as they expected. This essay going to regards the main issues in opening the Euro Disneyland and compare the French cultural with American cultural by using Hofstede’s cultural Dimensions and Trompenaars ‘s cultural dimensions. This essay will then end by
Europe is the second smallest in terms of the continent. It is located in the Northern and Midland hemisphere of the earth. It has an area about 104,98,000 sq.km of the total land. Europe stretches from 35oN to 71oN latitude and 24oW to 65oN longitude. It is surrounded by oceans and seas from three sides. The important attractions of the continent are the longest coastlines among all the continents with oceans, sea, islands, bays, and gulf. Europe, much like the United States, is a free market economy based on the movement of capital. Another way the countries of Europe work together is that many of them have switched to a common currency, called the euro. This makes exchange and trade even easier, and exchange rates are no longer
hope to witness in the future. The market feasibility and infrastructure demands must both be
Busch Gardens is an amusement park located in Williamsburg, West Virginia and opened in 1975 (Spiller, 2014). It hosts a European theme and holds many events throughout the year to draw in guests. Their assortment of beautifully decorated awarding winning athletic for 22 years has given them a well-known reputation throughout the world (Spiller, 2014). The park has a variety of events that keep spectators visiting the site like their unique foods from around the world, the various shops for shopaholics to enjoy, several live shows, and many rides that visitors could find exciting and thrilling.
|5000 employees at the beginning of the 1990s, it has grown to exports of $70 billion and 2.8 million employees today, and a globally dominating |
Disney parks are known for their clean and well designed atmosphere. However, they felt short in providing the same experiences to Euro Disney customers. Euro Disney failed to deliver the high level of customer service standard to Disney theme parks are known for their, as well as failing to provide the service needs that were unique to the European market.
For my final paper I chose to discuss The Walt Disney Company. Since the Company is so large and made up of four primary business segments, I decided to focus on one particular segment: Parks and Resorts. This segment is composed of the theme parks, cruise-line, and vacation club resorts.
The main problem of the Euro Disney was that all calculations made by Walt Disney Company were based on parks in the USA and Japan considering Europe as a mass of people rather than many countries with different languages and cultures. Americans see theme parks as a destination where you can stay between 4 and 6 days. In Europe, Euro Disney was seen as a part of the experience when traveling to Paris. The cost was also a problem for the park. A night in a hotel inside the park costs as much as a high quality hotel in the French capital. So, given that the park was located 40 minutes by car from Paris, visitors preferred to spend a night in the romantic city of Paris.