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Was Tokyo Disneyland popular with tourists from China, Southeast Asia, etc. before the 2005 opening of Hong Kong Disneyland?
And how about Universal Studios Japan (in Osaka) - was that popular with tourists from China, SE Asia, and so forth before the 2011 opening of Universal Studios Singapore?
But what are you asking? Of course the Disney conglomerate does multiple million dollar marketing studies, risk assessments, and cost/benefit analysis, considering the impact to it's other parks, before committing to any major investment like this. That goes without saying. Same with Universal. As China and countries like Vietnam become more prosperous and the population increasing in international tourism, the parks in Japan were likely popular, which increased the demand even further for local parks closer to the consumers.
With Covid they are probably hurting. But no problem - Disney just re-releases some of it's old classics like "Snow White" again in blueray for a quick multi-million dollar profit.
No. Most of China and Southeast Asia were not as rich as now. Going to Japan was expensive. Also most people from less rich countries could not get Japanese visas easily. At that time, most visitors to Japan were from Taiwan, HK and the US.
HK and Singapore were more popular international travel destinations than Japan.
Shanghai and other mainland Chinese cities have mostly domestic tourists
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Originally Posted by yofie
Was Tokyo Disneyland popular with tourists from China, Southeast Asia, etc. before the 2005 opening of Hong Kong Disneyland?
And how about Universal Studios Japan (in Osaka) - was that popular with tourists from China, SE Asia, and so forth before the 2011 opening of Universal Studios Singapore?
But what are you asking? Of course the Disney conglomerate does multiple million dollar marketing studies, risk assessments, and cost/benefit analysis, considering the impact to it's other parks, before committing to any major investment like this. That goes without saying. Same with Universal. As China and countries like Vietnam become more prosperous and the population increasing in international tourism, the parks in Japan were likely popular, which increased the demand even further for local parks closer to the consumers.
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Originally Posted by Tomboy-
No. Most of China and Southeast Asia were not as rich as now. Going to Japan was expensive. Also most people from less rich countries could not get Japanese visas easily. At that time, most visitors to Japan were from Taiwan, HK and the US.
HK and Singapore were more popular international travel destinations than Japan.
Shanghai and other mainland Chinese cities have mostly domestic tourists
I'm wondering if the following would be an effective way to bridge the seeming contradiction between what Dd714 has to say and what Tomboy has to say:
For a long time, ordinary tourists from countries like China and Vietnam found it too expensive to go to Japan and/or get a Japanese visa. But in the past decade or two (or maybe a drop more), more and more of them could afford a trip to Japan, and enough of them went to Japan to gain more awareness of the existence of Disneyland in Tokyo and Universal Studios in Osaka, and that probably would have generated demand for similar parks in places that they did visit more than Japan, such as HK and Singapore. (With Disney and Universal each conducting major studies, analyses, etc. before going ahead with those projects.) And closer to the present, the same thing for tourists from mainland China, who would generate demand for similar parks in Shanghai and Beijing, after having visited the parks in HK/Singapore as well as perhaps Japan.
Does that sound right?
Another, kind-of separate question: For South Koreans in the 1990s and 2000s, was going to Japan as expensive (and/or was getting a Japanese visa as hard) as for mainland Chinese and Southeast Asians? And were as many visitors to Japan at that time from Australia as from Taiwan, HK, and the US?
Australia was never the main source of tourists to Japan. The distance between two countries is long.
Japan was more expensive than South Korea in the past. South Korea was less rich than Taiwan. Now South Koreans are generally as rich as japanese and richer than workers in Taiwan.
China has a large domestic market. Covid doesn't hurt china's tourism industry much.
Japan needs to improve the covid problem before domestic and international tourists increase. The Olympics will bring few benefits to Japan during a pandemic that has not ended.
Does the japanese government listen to Japanese people?
Why still host the Olympics and dump waste water with radiation when many citizens object?
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