ESSAY HELP: How are Disney Parks a turning point in history?

[StoneCutter589]

I think the opening of the Disney parks were a definite turning point in US economic history. Disney's brand of customer service is now the benchmark for businesses worldwide. Take a look at the Disney Institute, which goes around the world teaching people how to run their businesses as efficiently as Disney.

 

[KCheatle]

Hmmm...Disney Parks..that's a tough one...my first question would be what makes you think Disney parks are any different from any other park that existed? Once you can figure out hte differneces, then you can get into whether other theme parks have copied that and/or how those differences affected tourism? It'd be easy if it was Disney animnation - first time that people became emotionally connected to a cartoon - my dad to this day talks about how incredible it was to see grown people crying when Snow White "died" - first time he'd ever seen anything like it. Maybe that's what you could tap into - the emotion of DIsney - it transports people to an emotional state none ever thought possible in the world of fantasy?

 

[SirNim]

DisneyParks is a turning point because it represents a shift in The Walt Disney Company's previous focus on the promotion of each of its unique resort properties around the globe as individual entities. Prior to DisneyParks, The Walt Disney Company had touted the unique qualities of each of its resorts; Disneyland as the place where the magic all started, and Walt Disney World as the place where the magic was really refined on an industrial level into a 47-square-mile paradise of lakes, hotels, and shopping districts. But with the introduction of DisneyParks, these unique promotional brand names that permeated the American consciousness were pushed aside in favor of a homogeneous generic moniker which was itself a symptom of corporate America's increasing over-reliance on focus group-driven sales strategies, design-by-committee approaches, and a more risk-averse outlook due to a tanking economy based on fiat money and Chinese-owned debt, surely the soundest financial instruments a country could ever desire. Even the plastic shopping bags, which had previously been printed with "Disneyland" or "Walt Disney World," were modified to instead read "DisneyParks," a cost-cutting move meant to further ensure the Wal-Martization of a beloved theme park franchise that was originally intended all those many years ago to be a reaction to the cost-cutting decisions rampant in the amusement park industry and in corporate America at large.



See what I did there?

 

[JiminyandTink]

The Disney parks have had a major impact on customer service methods spanning all types of businesses across the world. The Disney parks have also had a significant affect on architecture/transportation and urban planning in the real world.

Walt Disney and the Walt Disney Company have have major impacts on the creation or advancement of many great American products/inventions (Animation, multi-plane camera, technicolor, synchronized sound, Audio-Animatronics, Cal-Arts, etc).

 

[The Empress Lilly]

DisneyParks is a turning point because it represents a shift in The Walt Disney Company's previous focus on the promotion of each of its unique resort properties around the globe as individual entities. Prior to DisneyParks, The Walt Disney Company had touted the unique qualities of each of its resorts; Disneyland as the place where the magic all started, and Walt Disney World as the place where the magic was really refined on an industrial level into a 47-square-mile paradise of lakes, hotels, and shopping districts. But with the introduction of DisneyParks, these unique promotional brand names that permeated the American consciousness were pushed aside in favor of a homogeneous generic moniker which was itself a symptom of corporate America's increasing over-reliance on focus group-driven sales strategies, design-by-committee approaches, and a more risk-averse outlook due to a tanking economy based on fiat money and Chinese-owned debt, surely the soundest financial instruments a country could ever desire. Even the plastic shopping bags, which had previously been printed with "Disneyland" or "Walt Disney World," were modified to instead read "DisneyParks," a cost-cutting move meant to further ensure the Wal-Martization of a beloved theme park franchise that was originally intended all those many years ago to be a reaction to the cost-cutting decisions rampant in the amusement park industry and in corporate America at large.



See what I did there?

Awesome, everything about it!

 

[SirNim]

Awesome, everything about it!

I'm such a troll... hehehehe

 

[cba]

Disney has made a huge impact on tourist attractions in the U.S. Many people who go to the Orlando area (which is a lot) are likely to go to WDW. Disney has made the U.S. a little better to go to with the magic that's there. The Orlando area wouldn't nearly been as popular as it is now thanks to Disney. If you go way back, before WDW was built, Orlando wasn't exactly a place you'd go for a vacation. But when Disney was built, Orlando suddenly became the place we all know.

 

[I_heart_Tigger]

You may also want to consider Disney's original premise of having a park that wasn't solely deidcated to the amusement of children. He does the same in movies with jokes and sight gags only adults would understand. By creating a true "Family" theme park he not only widened the target market but also created segmented dempographics of couples, seniors and teens and was able to provide entertainment, merchandise and attractions to appeal to each.

 

[Bob Saget]

Before Disney, quarterbacks who just won the SuperBowl would not have a place to go after the big game.