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  • Shanghai Disney Resort to take wings

    Shanghai Disney Resort to take wings

    Shanghai Disney Resort will open two retail stores at the city’s Hongqiao International Airport next year.

    Both stores will be at the domestic departures of the airport’s T2 terminal to allow travellers to take home merchandise collections more conveniently, says the resort.

    It already has a 3000 sqm World of Disney Store at Disneytown that includes specialty shops and a Spoonful of Sugar confectionery. There are more than 7000 merchandise items including Disney apparel, toys, stationery, lifestyle products, collectibles and gifts. Resort director of merchandise David Koo says retail products will be updated or expanded, based on ongoing Chinese consumer research and insights.

    The most popular products at the resort include a Mickey and Minnie foldable-fleece collection that can be worn or folded into a back cushion. Another bestseller is the Storybook Chocolate Set.

    Koo says the resort will offer special products soon for the coming Chinese New Year, on January 28.

  • Cheesecake Factory China opens at Disney Resort

    Cheesecake Factory China opens at Disney Resort

    US food brand has opened the first The Cheesecake Factory China under a licensing agreement with its affiliate CCD China Operating Corporation.cheesecake_factory_counter

    Being run by Hong Kong-based Maxim’s Caterers, the restaurant is in Disneytown, the shopping, dining and entertainment precinct in Shanghai Disney Resort. The outlet has a menu of more than 200 items – all handmade in-house with fresh ingredients – featuring its signature cheesecakes and desserts.

    “China is an exciting new area of development for us and we are so pleased to be able to bring The Cheesecake Factory’s guest experience to Disneytown,” says The Cheesecake Factory founder/chairman/CEO David Overton, from California.

  • Disney Shanghai names first mall tenants

    Disney Shanghai names first mall tenants

    The primary tenants of shopping center beneath development on the Shanghai Disney Resort, have been revealed.

    The buying precinct, named Disneytown, will host 50 tenants in a 46,000 sqm outside way of life mall accessible from the adjoining theme park and inside strolling distance of the Shanghai Disneyland Lodge and Toy Story Lodge. The whole improvement is on monitor to open within the second quarter of 2016.

    The tenants simply named embrace well-known native and worldwide manufacturers together with eating places Shanghai Min, Crystal Jade, and The Cheesecake Manufacturing unit operated by Hong Kong Maxim’s Group, in addition to numerous retail choices together with shops beneath I.T group, i.t and Bape Retailer, and a Lego retailer. Different high-profile manufacturers together with Meals Republic, Coconut Paradise, The Eating Room, Hatsune, Blue Frog, Xin Wang Restaurant, BreadTalk, Toast Field, and Chow Tai Fook will even be the primary of a number of dozen tenants that may work intently with Shanghai Disney Resort to supply world-class purchasing and eating choices.

    Purchasing, eating and leisure areas are key options of Disney resorts all over the world, serving to friends take pleasure in an built-in resort expertise alongside world-class theme parks and motels.

    Whereas situated subsequent to the theme park, there can be no entry payment to the mall, making it a vacation spot in its personal proper.

    “Shanghai Disney Resort has labored intently with Chinese language and worldwide companions to develop new, recent and thrilling variations of those manufacturers for visitors visiting Disneytown,” stated Philippe Fuel, GM of Shanghai Disney Resort.

    “This space will supply a particular Disney expertise, treating visitors by each day and night time to nice eating, purchasing and leisure amid lovely open-air promenades and lakeshore allure.”

    With Chinese language friends in thoughts, Disneytown has been designed by a world artistic workforce to exhibit the right mix of Disney traditions and basic Chinese language and Shanghai design and cultural parts, together with conventional Shikumen structure in homage to the distinctive heritage of Shanghai. Disneytown can be composed of 5 distinct districts, together with Lakeshore, Market, Spice Alley, Broadway Boulevard, and Broadway Plaza, to create quite a lot of experiences and distinctive choices inside every district.

    Tenants of Disneytown will work intently with Shanghai Disney Resort to offer unique eating, purchasing and leisure experiences by tailoring each element of the venues – from the decorations to menu design.

    Eating choices will range throughout the districts. Visitors might take pleasure in fantastic eating experiences at upscale desk service eating places within the romantic theatre district, Broadway Plaza, the place Shanghai Min and Crystal Jade will present genuine Shanghainese and Cantonese delicacies with beautiful views of Shanghai Disneyland from each balconies. The primary Asia flagship restaurant of The Cheesecake Manufacturing unit operated by Hong Kong Maxim’s Group and Blue Frog’s new-concept restaurant will probably be featured in Broadway Boulevard. Spice Alley will supply quite a lot of fashionable Asian cuisines in an off-the-cuff, but eclectic and enjoyable surroundings and its eating experiences will supply one thing for everybody, together with distinctive Southeast Asian delicacies and native Chinese language delights from Meals Republic, Thai meals from Coconut Paradise and new Shanghainese dim sum and delicacies from The Eating Room. Informal eating experiences shall be offered in Market by Xin Wang Restaurant, the all-day Cantonese tea home, in addition to recent bakeries BreadTalk and Toast Field.

    Visitors may also be capable of expertise quite a lot of waterfront eating choices within the Lakeshore district reminiscent of California-style Japanese restaurant Hatsune, whereas having fun with views of each the lake and the Enchanted Storybook Fort to the north and the Shanghai Disneyland Lodge to the south.

    Shanghai Disney Resort is a three way partnership between The Walt Disney Firm and Shanghai Shendi Group.