Walt Disney Company had always been successfully operating theme park until 1992. Starting in 1955 where the first Disneyland set its foot at Anaheim‚ California and in 1983 in Florida (Hill‚ 2000). While in 1983‚ Disney faced a true challenge as they opened the first international Disneyland in Tokyo. In a fear of wide cultural differences between American and Japanese‚ it turned out an unexpected massive successful Tokyo Disneyland. As a result‚ Disney did not hesitate to invest a big sum of money
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International Marketing Final Exam First Question: Disneyland Paris was one of Disneyland ’s Global projects. Please discuss its advantages and disadvantages‚ and from reading and understanding the case suggest what was/were the mistake/s that Disney committed from the beginning till now. Answer: Advantages: 1- New site serving the 67millions population in France and 79 millions of tourists there‚ as Paris is the most-popular city destination among tourists of all nationalities.
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1. What factors contributed to Euro Disney’s poor performance during its first year operation? The biggest factors that contributed to the poor performance during the first year of Euro Disney’s operations were: a poor understanding of the marketplace‚ the issues and the cultural differences between two nations and two differing approaches to business and life. The major factor was ethnocentrism of the American leaders counterbalanced by French national insecurities. Assuming that people would
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contributed to EuroDisney¡¦s poor performance during its first year of operation? The factors that contributed to Disney¡¦s poor performance are ?X The dismal winter weather of northern France ?X Attendance only reached 9.2 million ?X Visitors spent 12% less on purchases than expected ?X Unforeseen combination of transatlantic airfare wars and currency movements ?X The French saw Disney as American imperialism ?X The French had its own cartoon character Asterix who also had its own theme park and went
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Disneyland Resort Paris: a development after understanding local cultures The case Disneyland Resort Paris: Mickey Goes to Europe introduced readers to the development of Disneyland Paris during fifteen years. Even though Disneyland Paris had a terrible start in 1994‚ it had a great improvement and bright future in 2007. The reason for its failure and success is the same: culture. Forgetting to respect local culture caused Disneyland to lose market and revenue in Paris‚ while adjusting its operations
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The History of DisneyLand Paris In the beginning... Following on from the success of the DisneyLand theme park in Anaheim‚ plans to build a European version first started around 1975‚ nine years after Walt Disney died. Initially Britain‚ Italy‚ Spain and France were all considered as possible locations‚ though Britain and Italy were quickly dropped from the list of potential sites because they both lacked a suitably large expanse of flat land. The most likely site was thought to be in the Alicante
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Case Study: 1 The Not-So-Wonderful World of Euro Disney BONJOUR‚ MICKEY: In April 1992‚ EuroDisney SCA opened its doors to European visitors. Located by the river Marne some 20 miles east of Paris‚ it was designed to be the biggest and most lavish theme park that Walt Disney Company (Disney) had built to date – bigger than Disneyland in Anaheim‚ California; Disney World in Oralando‚ Florida; and Tokyo Disneyland in Japan. Much to Disney management’s surprise‚ Europeans failed to “go
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Case 2: Euro Disney 1. The factors that contributed to Euro Disney’s poor performance during its first year of operation were their lack of knowledge of their target market and the fact that they didn’t take into consideration that the target market was not intended to just focus on one culture. Disney builds and promotes Euro Disney as a piece of America in Europe although Disney failed to adapt to the culture. In the European culture they perceived Euro Disney as being overpriced and the vacation
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Euro Disney I found two mission statements for this company one is “to make people happy” and the other one is “we create happiness by providing the finest in entertainment to people of all ages‚ everywhere” (Strauss‚ h. n.d.). Each and every employee from maid to the president knows the mission statement. All employees are motivated to create happiness for their guest‚ and they do everyday. From what I have read and heard‚ Disney lives up to both of these statements. Euro Disney S
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bleak picture‚ Michael Eisner‚ CEO of Walt Disney Co.‚ remained optimistic about the venture: "Instant hits are things that go away quickly‚ and things that grow slowly and are part of the culture are what we look for. What we created in France is the biggest private investment in a foreign country by an American company ever. And it’s gonna pay off."5 The Dawning Of Disney After first attempting to start a commercial arts firm in 1917‚ Walt Disney‚ along with his partner Ub Iwerks‚ joined
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