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Tout le monde semble se poser la même question en ce moment dans la presse chinoise avec ces quatre articles en quelques jours :

Article du 1er février 2016 :

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One country, two Disneys

Hong Kong Disneyland faces some stiff competition for the local tourism dollar when Shanghai Disney opens its doors in June. The mainland park will be three times the size of Hong Kong’s offering and have a host of unique attractions, but Hong Kong Disney has expansion plans of its own which will breathe new life into the much-loved local attraction.

Article du 31 janvier 2016 :

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China’s two Disneylands: competitors or complementary attractions ?

Hong Kong should no longer take advantage of delays in building major attractions on the Mainland.

Over the years, every new report of progress at Shanghai Disneyland has touched a nerve with Hongkongers. So when it was announced recently that its grand opening would be in June this year, to many in the city, especially those in the local tourism industry, the instant reaction was: so the day is finally coming.

More interestingly, the timing of Shanghai Disney’s opening will be very special – the horse month of the Year of the Monkey. In traditional Chinese culture, when one loses hope amid endless waiting, a very colloquial saying is: “Do I have to wait until the horse month of the monkey year?”

According to Chinese zodiac calculations, such a time comes every 12 years, which is not very long. However, it has become the traditional way of expressing one’s frustration over a lengthy wait.

Many mainlanders, especially Shanghainese, have all of a sudden realised that the horse month of the monkey year doesn’t necessarily mean hopelessness because sometimes dreams do come true. Indeed, 2016 is the Year of the Monkey, and mid-June is the horse month in the Chinese calendar.

Robert Iger, chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, said the Shanghai theme park “reflects Disney’s legendary storytelling along with China’s rich culture”, adding that “we’re looking forward to showing it to the world and sharing it with the people of China for generations to come”.

It has taken this US$5.5 billion mega project more than 15 years from negotiation to completion, longer than the 12-year-cycle for a horse month in a monkey year, but it has proved to be a fruitful wait. No wonder many joked that Shanghai Disney had injected new meaning into the concept of “waiting” in Chinese – that patience can be rewarding.

For years, “waiting” for the completion of Shanghai Disney, the first on the mainland but the second in China, always had a direct connection with Hong Kong, which saw its own Disney theme park open back in 2005, two years after the city was hit by the deadly Sars epidemic.

Then chief executive Tung Chee-hwa, who was personally involved in introducing the project to Hong Kong, had very much hoped to boost confidence and tourism through this joint venture. In a significant gesture of support, Beijng sent Zeng Qinghong, then the vice-president in charge of Hong Kong affairs, to the city to officiate at the opening.

Since then, it has become an open secret that those behind Shanghai Disney, which was first envisaged in the early 2000s, were asked by Beijing to slow down to give time for its Hong Kong counterpart to grow.

I still remember vividly those years, during the annual National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference meetings in Beijing. Hong Kong reporters would always chase after Shanghai officials to ask when China’s financial hub would start to build the nation’s second Disneyland.

We wanted to know if Shanghai would compete with Hong Kong by having a much bigger theme park, but what we usually got were the standard answers: Shanghai and Hong Kong were brothers; if Shanghai ever built a Disneyland, it would be because a country as big as China needed two, and not because it wanted to beat Hong Kong.

That was back in the day. Now it does seem that having two Disney theme parks in China doesn’t necessarily mean they will battle each other, as the two will target different visitors with different features – although the Shanghai one, with two hotels and six themed lands, is much bigger.

Many put the blame for a decline in visitors to Hong Kong on the lack of new attractions. If that was the real reason for the “chilly winter” of the industry, the solution should be easy.

More worrying is the decline in Hong Kong’s image as a city with strong hospitality and quality services. The recent infighting within the industry over the introduction of new regulatory measures is a good example.

Hopefully, it won’t take too long until the horse month of the monkey year comes when Hong Kong can rebuild its strengths to attract tourists with quality services, rather than having to take advantage of delays or a lack of competitive projects in mainland cities.

Those days have long gone!

Article du 26 janvier 2016 :

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One country, two Disneylands: Hong Kong government says Lantau theme park is ‘international’ while new Shanghai one is ‘more Chinese’

As major shareholder, government expects mainland park to have some impact on Lantau attraction, but HK part will add new attractions to lure visitors

The Hong Kong government is promoting the city’s decade-old Disneyland as an “international” playground in a bid to distinguish the attraction from its new Shanghai rival, which will open in June.

“Shanghai Disneyland highlights the Chinese characteristics, while Hong Kong Disneyland has more international features,” Greg So Kam-leung, Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, told the lawmakers yesterday.

The Hong Kong government is the controlling shareholder in the Lantau theme park.

“Of course it [the opening of Shanghai Disneyland] will have some effect [on the Hong Kong one],” So said, as the new theme park could absorb some tourists who would otherwise have visited the city.

He added that Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park would continue to add new attractions and hotels to lure more high value-added overnight visitors.

Meanwhile, details of the annual Lunar New Year fireworks and night parade were unveiled yesterday.

Around 1,000 underprivileged members of the public will be treated to a buffet banquet with high-ranking government officials and consuls general before enjoying a front-row seat for the fireworks display.

The annual pyrotechnic extravaganza will feature six smiling “monkey faces” in the 20-minute show on February 9 over the Victoria Harbour to mark the Year of the Monkey.

“We will be inviting ethnic minority and new immigrant families to enjoy this spectacular show,” said Eddy Li Sau-hung, president of the Chinese Manufacturers’ Association of Hong Kong, which is sponsoring this year’s HK$8 million event.

The monkey-face design is a first for Pyromagic Multi-media Productions, a fireworks production company that has handled all of the city’s major fireworks displays since 1997.

“There was a lot of difficulty with creating the monkey head because it is not round like a circle, and we also added the ears. We didn’t want it to just look like a normal smiley face,” said Wilson Mao Wai-shing, the company’s CEO.

An annual night parade featuring 22 international and local performing troupes will be held in Tsim Sha Tsui on February 8, the first day of Lunar New Year.

Its organiser, the Hong Kong Tourism Board, expects 150,000 people to turn up for the event – half of them tourists.

Article du 30 janvier 2016 :

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One country, two Disneys: can Shanghai and Hong Kong theme parks share the spoils in battle for the tourism dollar ?

Hong Kong Disneyland faces some stiff competition for the tourism dollar when Shanghai Disney opens its doors in June. The mainland park will be three times the size of Hong Kong’s offering and boast a host of unique attractions – although the Lantau version has expansion plans of its own.

Here’s our tale of two Disneys.

SHANGHAI

“Authentically Disney, yet distinctively Chinese.” That’s the description of Shanghai Disneyland, the mainland’s first and the world’s sixth Disney Theme Park.

The park is an important investment for both Walt Disney Co and the Shanghai government as up to 30 million visitors are expected each year at the world’s biggest tourist market.

“The Shanghai government and Disney are trying to make the project an envy of the world,” said an executive of a service provider that has a global partnership with Walter Disney.

“In short, all the things available in all the other five Disney parks will be seen in the Shanghai park. But not all things in Shanghai can be found anywhere else.”

The US$5.5 billion investment in the Shanghai venture is estimated to drive about 30 per cent of Disney Theme Park profit growth over the next five years, according to a UBS report on China’s travel market last year.

Ticket prices have not been confirmed, but there has been speculation they will be between 400 yuan and 500 yuan.

Aiming to mainly attract families with children from throughout China, the resort will adopt different prices for different groups of people, Shanghai’s tourism bureau head Yang Jinsong said earlier last year.

Recruitment and staff training is now under way. The resort has already employed more than 1,500 local staff, and thousands of more jobs are expected to be created in the following months to support the start of operation.

To give locals a taste of Disney, a flagship merchandise store was opened at Lujiazui, Pudong, last May and is the largest of its kind around the world, offering more than 2,000 products from clothing, bags and stationery to smartphone covers.

City officials also plan to create synergy between the Disneyland and other mega entertainment complexes including the 3 billion yuan Polar Ocean Park developed by Haichang in Nanhui.

Officials said that tickets to the two theme parks could be offered to non-local tourists in a package to achieve a mutually beneficial development and a win-win scenario.

“The Shanghai Disney park is likely to usher in a large number of high-end commercial and residential projects in the neighbouring areas,” said Joe Zhou, head of research in Shanghai for global property consultancy JLL.

“It is highly expected that the area of Chuansha where Disneyland is based will become a new investment magnet with an influx of population.”

Industry insiders expect about 15 million people to visit the resort in the first year, and a yearly visiting population of 25 to 30 million is projected when operation matures.

Among the major attractions, the Enchanted Storybook Castle is believed to be an ace card for the Shanghai theme park, with the tallest, biggest and most complex Disney castle ever built.

A golden finial will be installed on top of the tallest of the castle’s eight towers. The castle will also be the first to represent all the princesses in the Disney pantheon.

The resort’s other big draws will include the company’s first pirate-themed land and the longest parade route of any of the Disney parks.

Visitors can also expect attractions based on the Star Wars franchise and Marvel Comics superheroes, including Spider-Man and Iron Man.

Disney chief Bob Iger previously said that the park would be “authentically Disney and distinctively Chinese”.

“We are building something truly special here in Shanghai that not only showcases the best of Disney’s storytelling but also celebrates and incorporates China’s incredibly rich heritage to create a one-of-a-kind destination that will delight and entertain the people of China for generations to come,” Iger said.

One section of the theme park will feature a Disneytown tailored to the shopping, dining and entertainment needs of Chinese visitors with a 3000 sqm World of Disney store, two hotels, and a 40-hectare Wishing Star Park with natural scenery. A garden mosaic will depict the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac using Disney characters.

Huang Shilin, a 33-year-old mother of two children in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, said she would definitely consider Shanghai Disneyland as a top option because of its convenience and price.

“Who will go to Hong Kong Disneyland when we have one at our door? Even if we want to visit a foreign Disney park, I will go to Tokyo, which many of my friends recommended,” she said.

She said compared with Hong Kong, a visit to Shanghai’s resort would obviously cost much less. “Hong Kong is more expensive in every regard, and hotel rooms are not as spacy and new as on the mainland,” she said.

HONG KONG

Shanghai Disneyland may well be about three times the size of the Hong Kong site, but local tourism industry experts do not believe it will be a simple case of “the bigger, the better” when it comes to attracting visitors.

Just this week Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Greg So Kam-leung emphasised that Hong Kong Disneyland was positioned for a different market as it had more international features.

“Of course [the opening of Shanghai Disneyland] will have some effect on the Hong Kong Disneyland” he said.

“[But] Shanghai Disneyland highlights more Chinese characteristics ... [Hong Kong is an] international playground.”

The Hong Kong home to Mickey Mouse had received more than 50 million visitors since it first opened in 2005. In its glory days between 2010 and 2013, the park experienced double-digit growth in visitor numbers, while it slowed to 1.4 per cent in 2014 with 7.5 million people visiting the park — still a record high.

Despite the slowdown, Hong Kong Disneyland remains extremely profitable. Its net profit jumped 36 per cent to HK$332million in 2014 from the prior year, while its revenue hit a new high at HK$5,466 million with a 12 per cent growth from the previous year.

However, a visit to the theme park is not cheap, as the HK$539 admission fee for adults is 40 per cent higher than its local rival Ocean Park’s equivalent offering and doubles the prices of its most mainland peers.

Although it’s only less than six months before the official launch of the Pudong-based park, some keen mainland Disney fans have no intention to defer their trips to Hong Kong, as many of them see the new park as another opportunity for a Disney experience, not an alternative.

Meanwhile, the Lantau-based park, with roughly half of its revenue contributed by mainland tourists at present, has stepped up its efforts to lure local and oversea tourists in response to the potential decline of mainland tourists.

Iron Man Experience, a new attraction to be launched in Tomorrowland late this year, will show the Marvel hero Tony Stark fly all the way from the park to Victoria Harbour, where he will battle along the city’s main roads.

Fairy Tale Forest, which opened last December, draws on the power of the Disney princesses, with re-enactments of well-known scenes from five classic Disney princess stories.

A Disneyland spokesperson said it was specially designed for Hong Kong site, in order to cater Asian tourists’ addiction of taking selfies, “especially those from Southeast Asia,” she said.

The spokesperson said the size of the park had already been expanded by a 25 per cent after the establishments of three new areas in the past few years. A new hotel with 750 rooms is expected to open in 2017.

“The resort is committed to continuously introducing new and innovative experiences to delight guests that visit from around the world,” a spokesperson said.

So told lawmakers this week the government was in talks with Walt Disney, the park’s US partner which holds a 48 per cent stake, to further expand its site.

Meanwhile, mainland tourists told the Post that Hong Kong Disney remained attractive to visit, due to the drawcards of Hong Kong’s infrastructure, climate and other leisure activities.

Wong Jie-ju, 40, mother of a 10-year-old primary school boy from Harbin, Heilongjiang province, said:

“What makes Hong Kong special is that mums could also have fun with shopping when kids enjoy fairytales at the park.”

Despite many analysts expecting that visitors from the northern part of China will be inevitably be absorbed by the Shanghai park, benefited by shorter distances, Wong, who is from the northernmost province on the mainland said that the city’s warm weather in winter was “the most appealing reason” for her to visit Hong Kong.

“It is minus thirty degrees [Celsius] in Harbin now,” she said.

“It’s not something that you can only choose one,” said Lu Mei-yin, 45, a graphic designer from the northern coastal city Qingdao. She took her 11 year-old daughter to the park last week.

“It’s very easy to for us to visit Shanghai. We will definitely go later,” she said. “We have heard a lot about [Hong Kong Disneyland] since she was little.”

Lu, who was on her first visit to Hong Kong, was also amazed by its well-equipped infrastructure and the shopping

“There are more things to do in Hong Kong, as well as other famous attractions like Victoria Peak,” she said.

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disneyfou a écrit:

Savez vous quand es ce que l'on pourras réserver des séjours?

abc@Disney a écrit:

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Mr.Freddy a écrit:

euh non, pas du tout. On ne peut faire aucune réservation à ce jour et on ne connaît même pas les tarifs.
Il faudrait quand même un peu vérifier avant d'écrire sans savoir

Il sera possible de réserver billets d'entrée, chambres d'hôtels et billets pour le spectacle The Lion King (Walt Disney Grand Theater de Disneytown) à partir du 28 mars prochain via le centre de réservation du resort.

Les prix des billets d'entrée au parc ont été annoncés (j'ai posté la grille tarifaire et le calendrier des saisons dans le sujet consacré au parc Shanghai Disneyland en général : https://www.disneycentralplaza.com/t41758p560-shanghai-disneyland-16-juin-2016-le-parc-en-general ).

Les tarifs pour les deux hôtels Disney et le spectacle The Lion King seront communiqués d'ici le 28 mars.

Les réservations seront également possibles par l'intermédiaire du site internet officiel et certains partenaires autorisés (la liste des partenaires autorisés sera publiée sur le site officiel).

Shanghai Disneyland Hotel (photos postées sur Instagram) :

Si vous souhaitez faire un tour en vélo de la ville de Shanghai jusqu'à Shanghai Disneyland (en construction).

Mr B. est tombé sur de nouvelles photos du Shanghai Disneyland Hotel :

Des nouvelles photos sont apparues :














D'autre part, Le Beijing Times rapporte que Shanghai Disneyland est estimé à apporter des recettes de 24 milliards de RMB (3,65 milliards de dollars) par an. Cela semble être constitué de la vente de billets (4 milliards) et la vente de marchandises (20 milliards).

Source: http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2016/02-05/198491.shtml

effectivement sur ces photos, on voit que les travaux ont bien avancés.

C'est des prévisions Disney ou quoi? Non parce que faire le double de CA de DLP, avec une population moins imprégnée de la culture Disney, et un complexe largement plus petit que chez nous, je pense qu'ils rêvent avec un grand R.

Ce sont à mon avis des estimations faites par des journaux économiques qui se basent sur je ne sais quoi. Il suffit de lire certains articles qui affirment que le parc pourrait accueillir 15 millions de visiteurs dès sa première année (ce qui est juste surréaliste ou alors j'ose pas imaginer la foule)
Ce genre de prévisions fantaisistes a malheureusement pour effet de donner immédiatement l'impression d'un échec lorsqu'elles ne seront pas atteintes.
Mais effectivement, comme imaginer un tel chiffre d'affaires avec un seul parc et juste deux hôtels..

Jake Sully a écrit:

C'est des prévisions Disney ou quoi? Non parce que faire le double de CA de DLP, avec une population moins imprégnée de la culture Disney, et un complexe largement plus petit que chez nous, je pense qu'ils rêvent avec un grand R.

C'est exact. Ce sont des affirmations faites par des journaux locaux, comme bien souvent chez nous.

Certains cyclistes ont essayé d'aller sur le Resort hier. Ils ont été rejetées par la sécurité. Ils ont pu admirer le château et on pris cette photo.

Nouvel An chinois : L'année du Singe a débuté hier et se terminera le 27 janvier 2017.  

Photo prise la semaine dernière lors du diner annuel du département Vente et Marketing de Shanghai Disney Resort.

Vidéo prise à partir d'un drone, montrant le resort le 5 Février 2016.

C'est ouf la pollution, on est pratiquement dans du brouillard de crasse .

Pour en revenir aux estimations d'attendance Disney au début de la construction voyait le Resort commencer avec 7/8 millions de visiteurs par ans ce qui est un peu moins du double de Hong Kong lors de sa première année je crois. Ça semble bien plus réaliste que les 15 millions que les journaux sortent de leur chapeau...

Moi, je me rappelle encore la veille de l'ouverture de Euro Disney, où les médias mettaient en garde en annonçant 200 000 personnes pour le premier jour et des embouteillages monstres. Résultat, le parc était à moitié vide. Idem lors de l'ouverture de WDW, où les journaux prédisaient une affluence record et qui a démarré tout doucement (comme le souhaitait d'ailleurs Roy Disney, qui avait encore en mémoire le fameux black sunday de l'ouverture de Disneyland en 1955 où il y avait deux fois plus de monde que prévu avec un parc seulement à moitié opérationnel)
Bref, parfois les journaux délirent un peu trop

Nouvelles photos de construction du Resirt datant du 16 Février 2016.

Perso, ce qui m'intrigue, c'est la taille du bâtiment de Peter Pan. Il est nettement plus grand que dans les autres parcs. L'attraction sera-t-elle une des bonnes surprises du parc ? Va-t-elle passer du statut de ticket C à D, voire plus ? Dera-t-elle à Peter Pan ce que le Winnie de TDL est au Winnie des autres parcs?

Vidéo publiée hier sur le site internet : https://disneyparks.disney.go.com

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During the TV special, we took viewers inside the amazing color-shifting canopy at TRON Lightcycle Power Run for a closer look at the attraction as well as to the largest Disney castle ever, the magnificent Enchanted Storybook Castle. We also revealed a fresh look at portions of Shanghai Disneyland park and some of the never-before-seen attractions designed specifically for the people of China.

Shanghai Disneyland will open on June 16, 2016, and feature six different lands, including Adventure Isle, Gardens of Imagination, Mickey Avenue, Tomorrowland, Treasure Cove and Fantasyland. Tickets for Shanghai Disneyland go on sale to the public beginning March 28.

Le beffroi situé sur la place devant le Disney Store de Shanghai Lujiazui a été officiellement inauguré hier à l'occasion de la Fête des Lanternes de printemps (Yuanqiaojie) célébrée quinze jours après le Nouvel An chinois.

L'édifice fait 18 mètres de hauteur, le sommet est décoré sur le thème de Peter Pan et le bas sur le thème de Mickey Mouse.

Une animation d'une durée de quatre à cinq minutes se déclenche toutes les trente minutes (à l'heure et à la demi).

Ce petit spectacle visuel et musical est composé d'une douzaine de personnages issus des univers Disney, Pixar, Marvel et Star Wars dont la sortie est accompagnée de la musique de film en accord.  

Au pied du beffroi, les touristes peuvent se laisser prendre en photo à côté d'une des quatre sculptures de bronze.

Chaque soir à 22h00, à la fermeture du Disney Store, un petit spectacle musical "Goodnight Kiss" d'une durée de sept minutes est présenté accompagné d'effets de lumière.  

D'après Walt Disney Imagineering, le Disney Store de Shanghai Lujiazui conservera cette exclusivité (le beffroi ne sera pas reproduit pour un autre magasin Disney Store dans le monde).

Zhao Wen, vice-maire de Shanghai en charge, entre autre, du tourisme et de la propriété intellectuelle, a visité hier l'ensemble du site de Shanghai International Tourism and Resorts Zone comprenant Shanghai Disney Resort et Shanghai Village.

A moins de quatre mois de l'inauguration, il a tenu a inspecter le parc Shanghai Disneyland, les deux hôtels Disney, Disneytown, les infrastructures de circulation et de transport ainsi que l'espace commercial de Shanghai Village.

Pars ailleurs, une nouvelle campagne de recrutement aura lieu du 1er au 18 mars prochain à Shanghai, elle concerne aussi bien des positions à pourvoir au sein du parc que dans les deux hôtels du resort et à Disneytown (opérations, restauration, boutiques, spectacles et divertissement, service incendie et services de secours etc...).