Disney Parks & Resorts

Shanghai Disney Resort has celebrated its first anniversary with a major event attended by Walt Disney’s chairman & CEO, Bob Iger. At the anniversary party on Friday 16 June 2017, Iger told visitors that the Shanghai theme park had been a “tremendous success”, attracting more than 11 million visits in its first year of operations. […]

Shanghai Disney Resort has recorded its 10 millionth visitor, less than a year after it opened. The milestone was reached with a month still to go until its first anniversary on 16 June, and such is the theme park’s popularity that Disney has already revealed plans for its expansion. A new Toy Story Land, similar […]

Hong Kong Disneyland Resort has continued to expand with the unveiling of its third and largest hotel, Disney Explorers Lodge. The new-build 750-room property, which will officially welcome its first guests on 30 April 2017, will join the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel and Disney’s Hollywood Hotel at the theme park, taking the attraction’s total inventory […]

Work has started on a major renovation of Tokyo Disneyland, as the park bids to expand its range of attractions and address declining visitor numbers. Jiji News reports that the JPY75 billion (US$684 million) upgrade project will mark the largest single investment since the park opened in 1983. Scheduled to be completed in 2020, the […]

Hong Kong Disneyland fell to another loss in 2016, as visitor numbers declined in the wake of the opening of mainland China’s first Disney theme park. The full-year net loss of HK$171 million (US$22m) reflected declining revenues, which fell from HK$5.1 billion to HK$4.8bn, in line with a 10% slump in visitor numbers, from 6.8m […]

The Shanghai Disney Resort has received around seven million visitors since its opening in June 2016, and could reach 10m in its first 12 months of operations, senior officials have said. The Shanghai Daily reported the Walt Disney Company as saying this week that the Shanghai theme park could also break-even in its first year. […]

The new Shanghai Disney Resort has exceeded five million visitors in just over six months of operations. Xinhua reported Fan Xiping, chairman of Shanghai Shendi Group, Disney’s Chinese partner, as saying that by the end of 2016 the attraction had welcomed a total of 5.6m visitors. Shanghai Disney opened in mid-June 2016. Disney’s head office […]