809). What factors led to the disappointing performance of Hong Kong Disneyland? Factors leading to Hong Kong Disneyland’s poor performance include: high prices for tickets and food; small park size; inconvenient location too far from primary business and residential areas, product offering, product positioning, cultural gaps, staff issues, bad press, and overcrowding led to the disappointing performance of Hong Kong Disneyland. The case study also adds “lack of unique features, insufficient appeal
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HONG KONG DISNEYLAND ! According to Ali Farhoomand1, Hong Kong Disneyland has been struggling with lower-than-expected profits for almost three years since its opening; factors such as park’s small size, inconvenient location, lack of unique features and Chinese elements, and insufficient appeal to adults have been claimed as possible major causes2. Forhoomand points out that there has been negative press coverage pouring in regards to overcrowding; for instance, “You have to line up for
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( CASE 3-2 ) Hong Kong Disneyland: Chinese Tourists’ Behavior and Disneyland’s Internationalization Strategy DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Hong Kong Disneyland (HKD) experienced woes in its first year of operation due to: * Hong Kong government giving Ocean Park (the local theme park) all the needed support to rejuvenate itself from HKD’s competition * The HKD workforce demanding for equal treatment to their counterparts abroad * Ocean Park’s popularity growing even stronger as a
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CHAPTER 4 ° SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS 114B CASE 4-2 Disney Learns to "Act Local" on the Global Stage The Walt Disney Company, home to Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and other iconic characters, has a stellar reputation in many parts of the world for its family-friendly entertainment offerings. The company's parks and resorts division operates theme parks in five global locations, including a recent $1.8 billion park in Hong Kong. Disney's fabled studio entertainment unit has an illustrious
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Case Study Analysis The success of marketing a product or service in other countries is affected by the product itself and consumer demand. According to Weber (2002), when marketers are looking to export their products or services to other countries they need to understand the consumer’s demands, expectations, and tastes in the region. Not all consumers feel and think the same way. For example, consumers in Hong Kong have different historical and cultural views than Mainland China, although they
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has been less profitable, the company believes that further expansion into the region is worthwhile. However, the company faces a number of cultural challenges that must be overcome. Certainly language poses a problem for the company. At Hong Kong Disneyland, the company has chosen to be trilingual for example. In addition to dealing with language differences, Disney must also tailor other components to meet the local needs. The Hong Kong location includes more covered space to allow people to enjoy
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Using Case Studies in Real Estate and Finance Courses By Su Han Chan Department of Real Estate The Preliminaries Setting expectations Focus is on decision making Requires judgment No “right” answers Setting ground rules The student contract (4Ps) Knowing your participants Selecting cases and readings Using a mix of short (“breather”) and long cases Assigning a term project Case seminar series_Su H Chan A Short Case Phuket Beach Hotel: Valuing Mutually Exclusive Capital Projects*
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Hong Kong Disneyland was the Walt Disney Company's third international theme park outside America, after Tokyo and Paris. From conception to opening, the government joint venture was subjected to the absolute scrutiny of the Hong Kong public. There was scepticism towards the equity of partnership and politicians accused the administration of selling Hong Kong's interest cheap. Negative publicity plagued the Hong Kong theme park in its preparation leading up to the opening. Green groups asked the
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3.) How should Hong Kong Disneyland address competition? The efforts of Hong Kong Disneyland in gauging the Mainland Chinese market had a level of success and failure. In their competition with local competitor Ocean Park, Hong Kong Disneyland failed to acknowledge the cultural diversity of the Mainland Chinese to their more familiar target market customers in Western societies. Through the lack of experience in the new environment, Hong Kong Disneyland naively overlooked four main factors that led
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intended to show kids that traveling to another country can be very fun, even if not a lot their classmates are traveling out of the country. Even though Stella’s classmates were all going to Disneyland, Stella found out that there were other things that could be better than Disneyland. She experience “Disneyland” in her own culture, giving her a better experience. The theme of the book is traveling to another country. Being born in the United States, many children are accustomed to the American lifestyle
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