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Author: Wei Guo Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This study aims to find out what are the critical reasons that result in the significantly different performance of Hong Kong Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Resort, and what experience and lessons that the new Shanghai Disneyland can learn from. A comparative analysis is conducted from external and internal aspects between the two Disney theme parks in Asia. The results indicate that unfair financial arrangement and the small size of Hong Kong Disneyland have hefty impacts on profits while the Tokyo Disney Resort succeeds by providing a Japanized American Dream to Japanese visitors. Although there are other influential factors, the writer argues that the reason lies mostly in the financial arrangement and the small size of Hong Kong Disneyland. The two cases can provide experience and lessons to future theme parks in China, especially projects themed in international companies.
Author: Wei Guo Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
This study aims to find out what are the critical reasons that result in the significantly different performance of Hong Kong Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Resort, and what experience and lessons that the new Shanghai Disneyland can learn from. A comparative analysis is conducted from external and internal aspects between the two Disney theme parks in Asia. The results indicate that unfair financial arrangement and the small size of Hong Kong Disneyland have hefty impacts on profits while the Tokyo Disney Resort succeeds by providing a Japanized American Dream to Japanese visitors. Although there are other influential factors, the writer argues that the reason lies mostly in the financial arrangement and the small size of Hong Kong Disneyland. The two cases can provide experience and lessons to future theme parks in China, especially projects themed in international companies.
Author: Jennifer A. Kokai Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 303029322X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 295
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This book addresses Disney parks using performance theory. Few to no scholars have done this to date—an enormous oversight given the Disney parks’ similarities to immersive theatre, interpolation of guests, and dramaturgical construction of attractions. Most scholars and critics deny agency to the tourist in their engagement with the Disney theme park experience. The vast body of research and journalism on the Disney “Imagineers”—the designers and storytellers who construct the park experience—leads to the misconception that these exceptional artists puppeteer every aspect of the guest’s experience. Contrary to this assumption, Disney park guests find a range of possible reading strategies when they enter the space. Certainly Disney presents a primary reading, but generations of critical theory have established the variety of reading strategies that interpreters can employ to read against the text. This volume of twelve essays re-centers the park experience around its protagonist: the tourist.
Author: Florian Freitag Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 303111132X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 369
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This book offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary introduction to theme parks and the field of theme park studies. It identifies and discusses relevant economic, social, and cultural as well as medial, historical, and geographical aspects of theme parks worldwide, from the big international theme park chains to smaller, regional, family-operated parks. The book also describes the theories and methods that have been used to study theme parks in various academic disciplines and reviews the major contexts in which theme parks have been studied. By providing the necessary backgrounds, theories, and methods to analyze and understand theme parks both as a business field and as a socio-cultural phenomenon, this book will be a great resource to students, academics from all disciplines interested in theme parks, and professionals and policy-makers in the leisure and entertainment as well as the urban planning sector.
Author: Salvador Anton Clavé Publisher: CABI ISBN: 1845932080 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 481
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Since the 1980s, the theme park industry has developed into a global phenomenon, with everything from large, worldwide theme parks to countless smaller ventures. From the first pleasure gardens to the global theme park companies, this book provides an understanding of the nature and function of theme parks as spaces of entertainment. Illustrated throughout by worldwide case studies, empirical data and practical examples, the book portrays the impacts of theme park as global competitive actors, agents of global development and cultural symbols, particularly in the context of their role in the developing experience economy. In conclusion, this book is a practical guide to the planning and development of theme parks.
Author: Scott A. Lukas Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1861896921 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 357
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Theme parks are a uniquely interactive and enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture, technology, and culture in surprising ways for more than a century, as Scott Lukas now reveals in his compelling historical chronicle. Theme Park takes the primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point and launches from there into a rich, in-depth investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century. Lukas examines theme parks in countries around the world—including in the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan, China, South Africa, and Australia—and how themed fairs and parks developed through diverse means and in a variety of settings. The book examines world-famous and lesser-known parks, including the early parks of Coney Island; Madrid’s Movieworld; a series of World Fairs and their luxurious exhibition halls; Six Flags parks and virtual theme parks today; and, of course, the unparalleled achievements of Disneyland and Disney World. Lukas analyzes the theme park as a living entity that unexpectedly shapes people, their relationships, and the world around them. Theme parks have now become complex representations of the human mind itself, he contends, through its interpretations of books, feature films, video games, and Web sites. Ultimately, Theme Park reveals, the wider influence of theme parks can be found in the shopping malls, branded stores, and casinos that employ the tricks and techniques of amusement parks to dominate our entertainment world today. Packed with captivating illustrations, Theme Park takes us on historical roller coaster ride that both reanimates the places that shaped our childhoods and anticipates the future of escapism and fantasy fun.
Author: Johnny C. H. Lok Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781542317818 Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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I write this book concerns to explain how Walt Disney theme entertainment park which how applies knowledge management strategy to solve strategic and human resource problems successfully as well as I also give reasons to prove why it can not be theme park leader to influence USA economic and employment growth in the future and give recommendation how it can raise its ability to be the entertainment theme park leader in the future. I choose Walt Disney theme entertainment park. The reason is because I feel Disney is the famous leader among its similar theme entertainment park competitors as well as I also feel Disney knowledge management strategy is very successful to achieve to attract different countries travellers to choose to visit this theme entertainment park to compare to other similar theme entertainment park competitors in USA, Japan, Germany, Hong Kong, China etc. countries. In this book, I shall indicate in the beginning, Walt Disney could not attract many different countries travellers to visit it successfully. Due to it had no effective strategies to operate its theme park to attract many travellers to choose to stay to play longer time to compare its similar theme park competitors. For example, it lacked knowledge to evaluate whether which aspects of it's staffs job duties who need to be changed to adopt visitors' needs. In my most interesting research, I shall indicate whether Walt Disney had decided how to apply knowledge management strategy to concentrate on improving which aspects of its some staffs' job nature as well as how to improve it's queue methods to achieve to avoid its clients feel unhappy and angry and boring during they are queuing . In the result, it would cause them to feel its ticket sale price is not unreasonable to be valued to spend much time to wait the queue to play entertainment facilities. Finally, I shall give my opinions to explain how Disney changes it's human resource activities to improve performance efficient in order to increase profit and client visiting numbers both as well as I shall give methods to indicate how it needs to solve internal organization problems if it wants to assist America economic growth in long term for my conclusion. This book consists three chapters. The first chapter concerns what Disney background was and what my research aims were. The second chapter concerns what my research and analysis results are and what Disney knowledge management strategy had been implemented. The final chapter concerns to explain why Disney needs to change its internal strategies to raise its competition if it wants to be theme park leader to influence USA economic growth in long term.
Author: Miodrag Mitrasinovic Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351878743 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 586
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Placing theme parks from the United States, Europe and Asia in a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, this fascinating book argues that these fantasy environments are an extreme example of the totalization of public space. By illuminating the relationship between theme parks and public space, this book offers critical insights into the ethos of total landscape. Illuminating the relationship between theme parks and public space, the book offers an insight into the ethos, design and expectations of public space in the twenty-first century.
Author: Salvador Anton Clavé Publisher: CABI ISBN: 1845932102 Category : Amusement parks Languages : en Pages : 483
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From the first pleasure gardens to the global theme park companies, this book provides an understanding of the nature and function of theme parks as spaces of entertainment. It portrays the impacts of theme parks as global competitive actors, agents of global development and cultural symbols, in the context of their role in the developing economy.
Author: Jennifer A. Kokai Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 166693240X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 271
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Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety–and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided Americans into factions– the authors use their influential performance studies-based ‘tourist as actor’ framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performance of implicit Americanness in the 21st century. This book argues that the roles that guests choose to perform-- accepting, declining, negotiating, or overwriting scripts offered to them by the Disney theme park experience-- ultimately reveals much about the nature of the contemporary United States. Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World in Florida, and using case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics, these chapters illuminate the always complicated and often contradictory presentations and performances of America within Disney parks in the deeply contested twenty-first century.
Author: Wei Guo
Author: Wei Guo
Author: Jennifer A. Kokai
Author: Florian Freitag
Author: Salvador Anton Clavé
Author: Scott A. Lukas
Author: Johnny C. H. Lok
Author: Christopher Peak
Author: Miodrag Mitrasinovic
Author: Salvador Anton Clavé
Author: Jennifer A. Kokai