Disneyland - 20091105

Shanghai, as long expected, announced the plan of building a new Disneyland. Its size will be more than double of ours.

As usual, in the media, different pundits congested into every corner to cry wolf. Professors from Social Science, Tourism, Finance etc. dressed up and expressed their "mother-is-woman-type" comment. It seems that, if Hong Kong do not craft other new site spots, our tourism will go bust, sheerly because of the new Shanghai Disneyland.

Let common sense prevail, please. As a tourist, would you choose a holiday venue, with the size of Disneyland as your main concern? Unless you are a big fan of Disneyland, say, one of my colleagues said she would go to Orlando for a whole week to immerse in it. Otherwise, normal people would not avoid Hong Kong, just out of the fact that we own the tiniest Disneyland. What is the selling point of Hong Kong? The shopping paradise one, by stereotype. Thus, theme park like Disneyland is always an appendix to the main course.

One more thing, the number of visitors to Disneyland is never equivalent to those to Hong Kong. As such, it is nothing but illogical to shiver owing to that new park in Shanghai.