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0 Abstract
Euro Disney is established and it was officially opened on 12 April 1992 in Marne-la-Vallee, France. The opening day was addressed by Roy Disney who is the nephew of The Walt Disney Company. The opening of Euro Disney is anticipated to be successful in continue delivering the founders dream to make people happy and also embedded the Disneys traditional in the society of the residents in France.
4.1.1 Strength
4.1.2 Weakness
According to a detailed study conducted by the consulting firm of Arthur D. Little (ADL), the price of admission in Euro Disney was higher than the other European theme park. Although the quality of Disney theme park is better but it would be a weakness for Disney to compete with the customer form a middle or lower class society. Euro Disney also encounters the communication problem between the workers and the visitors. The workers do not know which language they should use in the communication with the visitors. This problems cause the difficulties of the workers on providing service to the visitors. As a result, the visitors will dissatisfied with the service provided by the Disney theme park and may also influence the images of Disney theme park.
4.1.3 Opportunity
The location of Euro Disney which is in France brings a lot of opportunity in having a high number of visitors to the theme park. Every year, there is a lot of tourists visited France for a vacation. Therefore, there will be a probability of them in visiting and have fun in Disney theme park as it is a famous place for vacation. In the process of establishing Euro Disney in France, the French government has help the Euro Disney in various way to successful in the business. For example, the value of the land is artificially as agricultural land in 1971 and the amount of taxes paid to the government is lowered by the valuation for taxes purpose for 20 years. This is a good opportunity for the Euro Disney on having a much more income in updating the facility and ride in the park.
4.1.4 Threat
Euro Disney was established and managed by an America company and its location is in France. For that reasons, the cultural differences between America and France brings lots of threat to the Euro Disney. The Euro Disney in France was established based on the style of American because it intends to continue the Disneys traditional design. Besides the Disneys character also portrayed European style. For example, the Alice in Wonderland was surrounded by the European hedge maze. The decision of Euro Design for not serving wine at the park is actually not allowing the French people to practice the important French tradition. This caused the dissatisfaction among the French people for not following their culture,
4.2 Dimensions of National Culture (Halls Conceptualization of Cultural Differences and Hofstedes Cultural Dimensions)
4.2.1 Space The use of space by the people in different country expresses their different in culture. The queuing behavior of the French visitors is differing from other country visitors. French visitors will not angry if they need to queue in long waiting lines for a ride in the theme park. European also dislike on queue in a long lines. This culture shows that the French people and the European do not like to waste their time in an unimportant matter.
4.2.2
Friendship
People from different country develop the relationship vary with other people. For
the western people, most of them easily make friends and interact easily with other people. For example, a family which came from northern Europe can enjoy themselves in the Disney theme park as they are able to interact with Disneys character although they only meet them in the first time.
4.2.3
disagreement openly on not so emphasis on friendship whereas high context culture, in contrast will more emphasis friendship, trust and understanding. The country with low context culture is America and the country for high context culture would be France. One of the Americans who visit the Disney theme park does not fell good on the working attitude of the workers in Euro Disney. The culture of that respective Americans show that they like to voice out their opinion openly based on what their encounter. In France,
5.0 Analysis
In order to expand Euro Disney to the Phase 2, the company should improve and overcome the main problem in Euro Disney. Disney is a famous brand of theme park around the world. As it is famous, Disney theme park actually consist of its own unique and powerful strength. But unfortunately, the management team of Euro Disney fails to encounter and overcome the main problem which may happen when doing business abroad. The main problem faced by the Euro Disney is the differences in the local culture with the companys country culture. The cultural differences also caused the huge losses in the revenue of the company. Euro Disney is located in France; therefore the French culture should be adapted in the Euro Disney. Besides, the expectations and the opinion of the local people should be analyzed to improving quality of the service delivered by Euro Disney. For example, the Euro Disney can organized the French Culture Show as a free performance to audience so that the local visitors will feel that their culture also one part of the Euro Disney. The workers in Euro Disney are the party who is the most familiar with the visitors satisfaction towards the theme park. They were also familiar with the problem faced and needed to solve in the theme park. For that reasons, I would recommend the in involving the workers to have meeting with the management team of the park. Through this meeting, the workers will have the opportunity to voice out the problem and suggestion of solving it. To overcome the loss encounter by the Euro Disney, I would recommend the management team that they may explore the new target market and forming the marketing strategy in attracting them to visit the theme park. Besides, improving the transportation is also vital and effective in increasing the number of visitors in the theme park as it brings convenience to the visitors. Euro Disney may design and build trains which have the decoration of various Disneys character in order to attract the potential visitors.