Hong Kong Disneyland's attendance well down on predictions

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2005

HONG KONG (AFP) — Hong Kong's Disney theme park has drawn much lower than expected visitors in the two months since opening, a press report says.

A headcount of visitors to the park carried out by four reporters of the South China Morning Post showed that 12,972 people visited on Sunday November 13, and 11,399 entered on Wednesday November 16.

The government, which owns a 57 percent stake in the three billion US dollar resort, said it expected 5.6 million visitors in its first year of operation, equivalent to an average daily attendance of 15,342.

The park failed to attract the crowds despite introducing a discounted price for Hong Kong residents from November 8 to December 8, the report said.

Disney and the government have so far refused to reveal...