Brush up your resumes, Shanghai Disney Resort has kicked off a recruitment campaign in Shanghai to hire skilled local talent to support the development of this world-class family vacation destination. This initial recruitment drive, the first of many recruitment initiatives, will focus on technical and… Read More »Shanghai Disney Resort Begins Recruitment for Technical and Creative Positions
Major kudos go to Sam Wilson of the “Theme Park Concepts” blog for deciphering what the park layout and attraction mix of Shanghai Disneyland is most likely to be. Wilson examined public presentations, models, and visual clues to come up with the following map: As… Read More »Shanghai Disneyland – Deciphering the Park Layout
While this isn’t coming from an official Disney representative, there was some interesting news made at the International Academy of Tourism expo in Shanghai. Construction is just underway on Shanghai Disneyland, it won’t open until 2016, but expectations are already pretty high. According to Alastair… Read More »Tourism Official – Shanghai Disneyland Expected to Draw Big
We’re learning a few more details about Shanghai Disneyland today. We’ve learned the Operating Conditions, which is basically how will it be built and who will control its operations, and some additional attraction details. Some of this is a bit fuzzy as there appears there… Read More »More Shanghai Disneyland Details
News reports from Shanghai indicate that major construction on the complex that will eventually house a Magic Kingdom style park could begin in May. Right now the government is hurriedly adding infrastructure to get trucks, and eventually tourists, to and from the site. The park… Read More »Major Construction at Shanghai Disneyland could start in May
The Oriental Land Company, the company that owns the Tokyo Disneyland Resort has been identified as a new partner in the Shanghai Disneyland resort. Anyone who has seen the attention to detail lavished on Tokyo DisneySea knows that this can only be a good thing.… Read More »Oriental Land Company joins Shanghai Disney project
Although property preparation has been underway for a few months now, no official deal had been signed with the governments of China and Shanghai. That changed after the Shanghai Expo finished. A deal has now been signed for a new 8 square mile resort area… Read More »Shanghai Disneyland Deal Signed
Most of the travel attention will be on the return of Captain EO to Disneyland today. But there are a few other travel related items to take note of: ESPN The Weekend returns to Disney’s Hollywood Studios this weekend and the ESPN Wide World of… Read More »Travel Tuesday – The Morning Report