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Tokyo Disney Resort
The Tokyo Disney Resort and Disney’s relationship with Oriental
Land Co. reached a magical milestone in 2003. Tokyo Disneyland marked
its 20th anniversary with an array of festivities that will last
until April 2004, including parades, pyrotechnics and musical shows
such as Disney’s Dreams on Parade, Blazing Rhythms
and Mickey’s Gift of Dreams.
As Tokyo Disneyland – the first Disney park outside the
United States – celebrated two decades of innovative entertainment,
Tokyo DisneySea, which brings the myths and realities of the oceans
to life in the grand Disney tradition, marked its second full year
of operation.
Disneyland Resort Paris
Disneyland Resort Paris remains Europe’s leading tourist
destination, achieving record hotel occupancy rates and welcoming
more than 130 million guests since opening in 1992.
A July 2003 agreement between Euro Disney S.C.A. and the French
public authorities marked the third phase of development of Val
d’Europe, continuing a 16-year relationship that has transformed
the area surrounding the Disneyland Resort Paris into one of the
most important economic hubs of eastern Paris.
Besides adding a Marriott vacation ownership resort and three
other partner hotels in 2003, Euro Disney S.C.A. announced an agreement
with Rezidor SAS Hospitality and Orion European Real Estate Fund
C.V. to open a four-star, 250-room Radisson SAS Hotel at Disneyland
Resort Paris in 2005. Disneyland Resort Paris is also looking forward
to the 2004 opening of a new 400-room property to be managed by
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts.
A dazzling twilight spectacular, Disney’s Fantillusion,
premiered at Disneyland park in Paris in July, bringing Disney characters,
tales and legends to life in a shimmering shower of light.
ESPN Zone
Still the best place to watch a sporting event if you can’t
be there in person, ESPN Zone stayed on the leading edge of technology
in 2003 by converting each of the big screens in its eight restaurants
nationwide to show HDTV programming.
Anaheim Sports, Inc.
The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim were one of the hottest tickets in
sports last year, as they skated to the National Hockey League’s
Western Conference championship for the first time in franchise
history and thrilled a worldwide audience with an edge-of-the-seat,
seven-game series with the New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup
finals.
Mighty Ducks goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere was awarded the Conn
Smythe Trophy for Playoff MVP, becoming just the fifth player in
league history to be selected from a runner-up team.
The team signed three-time Stanley Cup champion and six-time NHL
All-Star, Sergei Fedorov, in July.
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