I wonder how WDW is generally viewed by international guests. We do get the perspectives of English-speaking guests on WDWMagic and other forums, but there are obviously large numbers of international visitors who do not understand English well enough (or do not care about the parks enough) to post on a British- or American-based fansite.
Do visitors in large tour groups, for example, care less about maintenance issues, relative dearth of new entertainment options, etc. because the focus of their trip is centered on interacting with other members of their group, and their days are tightly regimented and scheduled?
Is a WDW vacation so relatively affordable to visitors from so many different countries that such issues become virtually immaterial? (The less one spends on something, the easier it is to be satisfied with value-for-money.)
In both of the above cases, I would guess that TDO can just maintain the status quo, and continue to draw guests from international markets at a rate that satisfies the number crunchers.
(Something else I've wondered more and more, especially recently: how do visitors from Japan view WDW? I've seen increasing numbers of Japanese guests at WDW over my last several trips. Assuming that someone from Japan will already be familiar with the TDR parks, I wonder if such guests would typically be surprised and disappointed at the state of the WDW parks as compared to TDL and TDS.)
I'd really be interested in knowing the answers to these types of questions, but I would guess that the data either isn't readily available or isn't susceptible to easy interpretation, given the large number of factors involved.
