Fourteen-year-old Chinese tourist Li Zeng wandered Hong Kong Disneyland on Wednesday - and left after two hours. Li isn't that familiar with Mickey Mouse and his companions, and he and his father didn't ride any rides, buy souvenirs or eat food. "We don't understand this park," said Li, waiting for his tour bus. "We gave up looking at the map. Five months after Walt Disney Co. opened its Hong Kong theme park in a bid to tap the booming China market, the cultural divide that separates Mickey and Li is emerging as a major challenge. It is one that the company is now trying hard to bridge, although with mixed results.
HONG KONG - The newly opened Hong Kong Disneyland said Friday it prefers that its 5,000 workers not unionize as activists described tough work conditions at the park such as long hours, harsh turnarounds and lack of breaks. Disneyland, which opened two weeks ago, said in a statement it respects the right of workers to seek union representation, but that it thinks it's more effective for labor and management to "work and communicate directly with each other.
HONG KONG (AP) -- Hong Kong Disneyland plans to add four new shows and launch a discount ticket for transit tourists on a trial basis in 2008 amid news its 2007 attendance plunged. The park also said in a statement it will open a previously announced attraction, the classic Disney ride "It's a Small World," this coming spring.
HONG KONG - Greenpeace said Monday its activists sneaked into Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel over the weekend and swapped several light bulbs used in two lobby chandeliers with more energy efficient fluorescent ones. Greenpeace activists also unfurled a banner that said "Mickey harms the global climate" Sunday to protest Hong Kong Disneyland's energy management, the environmental group said in a statement.
HONG KONG (AP) - When Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck landed in Paris in 1992, French officials shunned the opening of Euro Disney, intellectuals decried the invasion of American pop culture and park workers protested the strict dress code. Disney's latest experience - its new park in Hong Kong - couldn't have been more different.
A partir del 5 de mayo, extendiéndose por 18 meses hasta el 2006, el evento se lleva a cabo en todos los parques temáticos de Disney alrededor del mundo, con la presentación de divertidos espectáculos y atracciones en Disneyland Resort, California; Walt Disney World Resort en Florida; Tokio Disney Resort en Japón; y Disneyland Resort Paris en Francia y la inauguración de Hong Kong Disneyland. Michael Eisner, CEO de la compañía, mencionó que Disneyland se ha convertido en un fenómeno cultural. "El nacimiento de la industria de los parques temáticos retoñó del sueño de un hombre mientras caminaba en medio de naranjales hace más de 50 años, y hoy en día, el sol nunca se pone en el panorama global de los parques temáticos de Disney," dijo Eisner. "Nuestra 'Celebración Más Feliz del Mundo' e...
The Hong Kong government and Walt Disney Co. will expand the city's Disneyland for HK$1 billion ($129 million) in the next three years, the Hong Kong Economic Times reported, citing an unnamed senior government official. The additional spending will come from construction costs saved in 2003 when the city was hit by severe acute respiratory syndrome, according to the Chinese-language newspaper. It didn't say if the funding will come from the government or the company.
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