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Why do you think that the world's largest theme park operator, Walt Disney Company, was motivated to establish parks in Tokyo, Paris, and Hong Kong? What particular market characteristics of each of those sites do you think were especially attractive? If you were the CEO of the Disney corporation, would you establish additional foreign parks, and if so, when, where, why, and how? If not, please state in detail the rationale for your decision.

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The solution provides a detailed explanation addressing why he world's largest theme park operator, Walt Disney Company, was motivated to establish parks in Tokyo, Paris, and Hong Kong, the particular market characteristics of each of those sites that was especially attractive, and if you were the CEO, if you would establish additional foreign parks, and if so, when, where, why, and how.

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Walt Disney was motivated to open their theme parks across the world after a few different conditions were established. After the initial park was opened and the company, through a long process of trial and error, was able to see the growing interest in their theme park, knew that they needed to expand. As interest grew from the initial parks that were opened, the company realized that they could expand their operations to include goods and services outside of their theme park. Merchandise, Disney sponsored vacations and hotels, and later on, Disney movies and television ...

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