Crime Risks Increase in Areas Proximate to Theme Parks: A Case Study of Crime Concentration in Orlando

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Sungil Han ◽  
Matt R. Nobles ◽  
Alex R. Piquero ◽  
Nicole Leeper Piquero
Keyword(s):  
Theme Parks ◽  
Crime Concentration ◽  
Crime Risks

Extending the Haunted Mansion : Spatial Poaching, Participatory Narratives and Retrospective Transmedia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Williams
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Physical Spaces

This chapter offers detailed discussion of the transmediality of theme parks and how their narratives and experiences extend across media forms. It takes Disney’s Haunted Mansion as an extended case study, a ride which has been turned into a feature film, but has also seen its narrative universe expanded across comics and novelizations, board games, and video games. Despite the fact that the ride lacks a coherent story, fans have demanded a greater narrative to the ride, causing tensions between Disney and its fans. Introducing the concepts of spatial poaching and retrospective transmedia, the chapter focuses on how producers and fans co-construct transmedia narratives through physical spaces, and over extended periods of time.

How Can a Regional Theme Park Survive in China?

2015 ◽  
pp. 322-338
Author(s):  
Jing (Bill) Xu ◽  
Wei Yuan ◽  
Erdogan H. Ekiz ◽  
Doris Shuk-ting Lo
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Chinese Market ◽  
The World ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Vital Component

Theme parks have become a vital component of the tourism industry, providing entertainment and excitement to local residents and tourists. Particularly, more and more parks start their business in Asia. In this competitive environment, investigating the success and failure cases may prove very fruitful implications to other practitioners. Among these implications innovative marketing strategies are one of the most important ones. However, few previous studies attached importance to the study of theme park industry and the service performance in China. Given this lack of attention, this study was conducted in attempts to shed some lights for the park managers all around the world in general but also the ones in Chinese market, in particular. A case study of Wuhu Fantawild Dreamland, Anhui, China, was adopted for the survey and interviews. The analyses suggested China's theme park visitors had some unique preferences which can be used while creating innovative marketing strategies.

Learning From Others

2019 ◽  
pp. 172-191
Author(s):  
Lee Lai Meng ◽  
Asmat-Nizam Abdul-Talib
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Ideal Solution ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Learning From Others ◽  
Capital Intensive ◽  
Main Factor

Theme parks are important products for the leisure and tourism industry of any country. They have become a globalized commodity that transcends countries and cultures. With the global rise in anxieties and the stress of modern living, consumers are looking for an antidote for these circumstances, and an escape to the theme park is an ideal solution for many. The developments of theme parks are capital intensive and require much commitment from the investor or developer of the said theme park. Thus, it is critical for potential investors of theme parks to identify the critical factors for the success of theme parks. Marketing literature and research has indicated that authenticity of the product as well as the staging of experiences as the main factor influencing consumer's decision to buy a leisure or tourism product. This case study focuses on the Genting Group Malaysia and their foray into the theme park industry. By observing and learning from other theme parks' success and failures, it is hoped that future theme park developments will be able to maximize their chances of success.

scholarly journals An examination of variability in offender residences across different spatial scales. A case study in Birmingham.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Langton ◽  
Wouter Steenbeek ◽  
Monsuru Adepeju
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scale ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Crime Concentration ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

Objectives: This paper disentangles the degree of concentration and variance in offender residences across different levels of spatial aggregation. Three nested units are analysed simultaneously (and longitudinally) to explore the impact of using different spatial scales, opening prospect for a comparison with existing findings from crime concentration literature. Methods: Data is utilized from West Midlands Police Force, containing the locations of residence for all known offenders in Birmingham between the years 2006 and 2016. Resident locations are aggregated to 3223 Output Areas (OA), nested within 639 Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA), further nested within 132 Middle Super Output Areas (MSOA). Descriptive and model-based statistics are deployed to replicate a recent study for crime events (Steenbeek & Weisburd, 2016). Results: In contrast to the crime concentration literature, the results indicate that most variance (~50%) in offender residence concentrations is attributable to the largest spatial scale (MSOA level). Output Areas, as the most fine-grained unit, capture approximately 39% of the variance, although this proportion increases during the study period at the expense of MSOA. Conclusions: Findings suggest that the relationship between variance and scale when studying offender residences is not as clear-cut as it is for crimes. Larger units hold some merit (empirically and theoretically), but this is time-dependent, opening up discussions on the role of urban development in determining the appropriateness of spatial scale.

Theme Parks

2020 ◽  
pp. 451-471
Author(s):  
James S. Bielo
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Study Analysis ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
The Us ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
History Of

This chapter examines the phenomenon of biblically inspired theme parks. Like Disney and other variants, biblical theme parks create experiential portals to other lifeworlds. They imagine, materialize, and choreograph stories from Christians’ sacred texts in order to heighten visitors’ relation of intimacy with scripture by conjuring particular, ideologically charged scriptural pasts. To illustrate this argument, the chapter outlines the history of the modern theme park and presents a case study analysis of a creationist theme park in the US state of Kentucky: Ark Encounter. Ethnographic work with park designers and participant observation at the park demonstrates how this site of religious tourism mobilizes strategies and imperatives of immersion that are resonant with the culture of entertainment more broadly.

Does authenticity exist in cultural theme parks? A case study of Millennium City Park in Henan, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xialei Duan ◽  
Chung-shing Chan ◽  
Lawal M. Marafa
Keyword(s):  
Theme Parks ◽  
City Park

scholarly journals Globalisation of commercial theme parks case: The Walt Disney Company

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Patrick De Groote
Keyword(s):  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Theme Park ◽  
Theme Parks ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Walt Disney Company ◽  
Walt Disney ◽  
Set Up

In this contribution we focus on the globalisation of commercial theme parks with Walt Disney Company as the best known case study. After definitions and historical background of theme parks, we analyse the visitors key factors. For the Walt Disney Cie we start with some historical facts, we set up a SWOT-analysis and focus then on Euro Disneyland Paris, the biggest theme park of Europe.

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