In our video today, I recap some of the top stories from 2016 that you will find in our new yearbook for the theme park industry, Theme Park Insider: 2016 Year in Review. It's available in paperback for under $10 from Amazon, and starting today, it's also available for Kindle, too. That price is under $5, but you've already bought the paperback version, you can get the Kindle download for free. (Or, you will, once Amazon gets it together and associates the two versions. That sometimes takes a day or two.)
And if you subscribe to Amazon's Kindle Unlimited service, our yearbook is free to read, whenever you want.
Not to spoil anything, our biggest story from 2016 was the opening of Shanghai Disneyland, but one of the other big stories in the book is the rise of Dubai as a theme park destination, with four new parks opening in the region this year. I will be flying to Dubai later this week for the grand opening of Motiongate Dubai and the other Dubai Parks & Resorts, so keep watching — here and on Twitter and on YouTube — for my coverage from Dubai over the weekend.
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As far as Shanghai Disneyland goes, much of what I've heard says that the park has been meeting or exceeding the attendance goals set prior to opening, but they have not been generating as many return visitors as expected. Disney definitely went over budget by a significant margin on the park, but it is too early to tell definitively whether the park is underperforming. To me, it sounds like it is at least doing notably better than Paris or Hong Kong did when they first opened.
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