Tyumen state university

Faculty of ecological and geography

The department of foreign languages

Project:

«Disneyland Resort Paris»

Tyumen

2008

Presentation Disneyland Resort Paris

 

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. My name is Tatiana. I’m a third year student. Today I’d like to say a few words to you about Disneyland Resort in Paris.

Disneyland Resort Paris is a holiday and recreation resort in Marne-la-Valle, a new town in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. The complex is located 32 km from the centre of Paris and lies for the most part on the territory of the commune of Cheesy.

Disneyland Resort Paris features two theme parks, an entertainment district and seven Disney-owned hotels.

Hotels, recreation and restaurants

In order to control a maximum of the hotel business, it was decided that 5,000 Disney-owned hotel rooms would be built within the complex. In March 1988, Disney and a council of architects  decided on an exclusively American theme in which each hotel would depict a region of the United States.

29 restaurants were built inside the park. Menus and prices were varied with an American flavour predominant and Disney's precedent of not serving alcoholic beverages was continued in the park.

 

Recruitment

Unlike Disney's United States theme parks, Euro Disney aimed for permanent employees as opposed to seasonal and temporary part-time employees.

 

The complex

Disneyland Resort Paris encompasses 19 km2, including resort hotels, nightclubs, a golf course, a railway station and theme parks, there are: Disneyland Park and Walt Disney Studios Park.

Also it includes an entertainment district which calls The Disney Village and it contains a variety of restaurants, bars, shops and other venues and stays open after the parks close.

Hotels

The complex features seven Disneyland Resort Paris hotels. The Disneyland Hotel is located over the entrance of the Disneyland Park and is marketed as the most prestigious hotel on property. A body of water known as Lake Disney is surrounded by Disney's Hotel New York, Disney's Newport Bay Club and Disney's Sequoia Lodge. Disney's Hotel Cheyenne and Disney's Hotel Santa Fe are located near Lake Disney, Disney's Davy Crockett Ranch is located in a woodland area outside the resort perimeter.

 

As to Transport

A railway station, Marne-la-Vallйe - Chessy, with connection to the suburban RER network and the TGV high-speed rail network is located between the theme parks and Disney Village. Free shuttle buses provide transport to all Disney hotels and Associated Hotels.

Disneyland Resort Paris is an embodiment Walt Disney’s imagination and a subject of dreams of all children in the world. The Disneyland is the best place for rest with children in France.

 

That’s all I wish to say, thank for your listening, and I’d be happy to answer any questions.

Disneyland Resort Paris

 

Disneyland Resort Paris is a holiday and recreation resort in Marne-la-Valle, a new town in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. The complex is located 32 km (20 miles) from the centre of Paris and lies for the most part on the territory of the commune of Cheesy.

Disneyland Resort Paris features two theme parks, an entertainment district and seven Disney-owned hotels. Operating since April 12, 1992, it was the second Disney resort to open outside the United States (following Tokyo Disney Resort), and the first to be owned and operated by Disney. With 14.5 million visitors in the fiscal year of 2007, it is one of Europe's leading tourist destinations.

Disneyland Resort Paris is owned and operated by French company Euro Disney S.C.A., a public company of which 39.78% of its stock is held by The Walt Disney Company, 10% by the Saudi Prince Awaked and 50.22% by other shareholders. The park is run by chairman and CEO Karl Holz.

The complex was a subject of controversy during the periods of negotiation and construction, when a number of prominent French figures voiced their opposition and protests were held by French labors unions and others. A further setback followed the opening of the resort as park attendance, hotel occupancy and revenues fell below projections. Partly as a result of this, the complex was renamed from Euro Disney Resort to Disneyland Paris in 1995. In July of that year, the company saw its first quarterly profit.

A second theme park, Walt Disney Studios Park, was opened to the public on March 16, 2002.

 

Background & development

Following the success of Disneyland in Anaheim, California and Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, plans to build a similar theme park in Europe emerged in 1972. Upon the leadership of E. Cardon Walker, Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983 in Japan with instant success, forming a catalyst for international expansion. In late 1984 the heads of Disney's theme park division, Dick Nunis and Jim Cora, presented a list of approximately 1,200 possible European locations for the park.[1]

By March of 1985, the number of possible locations for the park had been reduced to four; two in France and two in Spain.[2] Both of these nations saw the potential economic advantages of a Disney theme park and competed by offering financing deals to Disney.[3]

Both Spanish sites were located near the Mediterranean Sea and offered a subtropical climate similar to Disney's parks in California and Florida. Disney had also shown interest in a site near Toulon in southern France, not far from Marseille. ............