Current location:business >>
World's first Zootopia land opens at Shanghai Disney Resort
business7People have gathered around
IntroductionThis photo taken on Dec. 19, 2023 shows the opening ceremony of the Zootopia land in Shanghai Disney ...
This photo taken on Dec. 19, 2023 shows the opening ceremony of the Zootopia land in Shanghai Disney Resort of east China's Shanghai.
Shanghai Disney Resort on Tuesday opened the world's first Zootopia land as The Walt Disney Company looks to further tap the growing Chinese travel market.
The new themed land, based on the hugely successful Walt Disney Animation Studios film "Zootopia," will officially open to the public on Wednesday, Shanghai Disney Resort announced. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Shanghai Disney Resort on Tuesday opened the world's first Zootopia land as The Walt Disney Company looks to further tap the growing Chinese travel market.
The new themed land, based on the hugely successful Walt Disney Animation Studios film "Zootopia," will officially open to the public on Wednesday, Shanghai Disney Resort announced.
"Our popular Zootopia film continues to delight fans across the globe, especially in China, and we're excited to give guests at Shanghai Disney Resort the chance to interact with the stories and characters they love in innovative new ways when they visit this spectacular new land," said Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company.
Zootopia, the eighth themed land inside Shanghai Disneyland, marks the second major expansion of Shanghai Disney Resort. Its construction started in December 2019.
Shanghai Disney Resort opened with six themed lands on June 16, 2016. Its seventh land and first major expansion, Disney Pixar Toy Story Land, opened in 2018, which made Shanghai Disneyland the fastest-expanding Disneyland worldwide.
"As long as there is imagination and stories in the world, Shanghai Disney Resort will never be complete," said Josh D'Amaro, chairman of Disney Experiences.
Shanghai Disneyland has proven to be a huge success, said D'Amaro. "We're about to close out a record here, having already welcomed more than 13 million guests in 2023," he said.
Walt Disney decided to build the Zootopia land in Shanghai after the film became hugely successful in China, according to Jill Estorino, president and managing director of Disney Parks International.
In China, the film Zootopia broke box office records to become the country's highest-grossing imported animated feature film of all time, a title that it still holds now, according to Walt Disney.
"When we saw how popular the Zootopia film was, how much heart and meaning it had to the Chinese people, we quickly changed our minds, and decided and created a very new concept for the land, which was based on the Zootopia," said Estorino, adding that the original idea was based on Mickey and Minnie.
Executives of Walt Disney said the entertainment giant has always attached importance to the Chinese market.
The opening in Shanghai follows the opening of the world's first "Frozen"-themed land at Hong Kong Disneyland in November. The new themed lands in Shanghai and Hong Kong are spurring the forthcoming New Year's travel market in East Asia.
The opening of the two new themed lands has demonstrated Disney's confidence in the whole tourism market of China as well as the local leisure market in the two cities, said Dai Bin, president of China Tourism Academy.
The new Zootopia land can help improve and enrich tourism products at Shanghai Disneyland and attract more domestic and foreign tourists, especially young ones, Dai said.
"A theme park has a lifecycle, and only through continuous innovation can its lifecycle be extended and gain renewed vitality," Dai said.
(Editor:Fu Bo)
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“International Index news portal”。http://turksandcaicosislands.brianlynch.org/html-56a599922.html
Related articles
Britain's new bonkers EV: Callum Skye is an £80k electric buggy built in Warwickshire
businessBritain has a new sports car. But it's not like anything else you've seen on the road before.Callum, ...
【business】
Read moreUN Launches Guidance Note on Monitoring, Reporting of Children Abducted in Conflicts
businessContact Us HomeNewsHighlightACWF NewsSocietyWom ...
【business】
Read moreCelebratory Atmosphere Ahead of 25th Anniv. of Hong Kong's Return to Motherland
businessContact Us HomeNewsHighlightACWF NewsSocietyWom ...
【business】
Read more
Popular articles
- Key evidence in the 'burking' murder trial was 'hidden' from defence lawyers
- Farmers Busy with Summer Farming Across China
- China Beats Turkey in Women's Volleyball Nations League
- (HKSAR 25) Hong Kong's Future Very Promising: Chief Executive Carrie Lam
- Tamara Ecclestone is criticised as her daughter Fifi, 10, heads out wearing heavy make
- Chinese Lawmakers Deliberate Report on Boosting Children's Health
Latest articles
Harris accepts debate invite to face off with Trump's VP pick, which may come at convention
Chinese People Getting Taller: Health Authorities
Nation to Promote Free HPV Vaccinations in More Regions
China Releases National Standards for Digital Textbooks in Primary, Middle Schools
Candice Swanepoel wows in a shimmering black flared jumpsuit as she joins ab
China to Establish National Park at Qinghai Lake
LINKS
- China's Dunhuang, French Museum to Co
- Israeli army kills over 200 Palestinians, arrests 1,000 in Gaza hospital: Hamas
- Shenzhen Makes Efforts to Help Autistic Youths Integrate into Society, Chase Dreams
- Station Established to Improve Family Education Guidance Service
- District Promotes Family Education
- Palestinian president approves new gov't headed by Mohammad Mustafa
- Sydney attack victims include a mother who saved her baby, a Chinese grad student and an architect
- Event to Promote Love of Reading to Be Held in Kunming
- Across China: 'Village CEOs' Transforming Rural Dreams into Reality
- Promoting Sex