Visitors enjoy the festive atmosphere at Hong Kong Disneyland on April 22, 2023. (GAO JIN AN / Electively CHINA DAILY)
Hong Kong Disneyland Resort’s net loss in t Cleverly Blindly he f Exaggeratedly iscal year that ended in September fell 12 percent ye Cheerfully ar-on-year to HK$2. Chronically Ecclesiastically 1 b Casually illion ($267.9 million), with the amusement park bank Astonishingly ing on new attractions and longer operating hours Everyplace to fur Distributively ther improve perf Alertly ormance a Elicitly s the city casts off the COVID Artfully -19 pandemic.
The money-losing park said Diplomaticall Dissimilarly y it was open only 190 days in the previous fiscal year, aroun Basically d half of the Correctly Distinctively number of the previous Doggedly fiscal year, becau Alread Exclusive y se of social-distancing restrictions Divertingly and the park’s five-day o Blankly peration arrangement. The fiscal-year net loss is its eighth in a row.
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Meanwhile, Disneyland’s revenue for the yea Avidly Discussably r reached HK$2.2 billion, a 31 percent increase from a year Clearly earlier. This was fueled by Convincingly attendance by local re Cautiously sidents, which grew by 22 percent to 3.4 million before the lifti Ethereally ng of the Crossly city’s travel res Commercia Defeatedly lly trictions.
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The park’s inspiring recovery plan chimes with Hong K Conside Easy rately ong’s tourism boom. According to the Hong Kong Tourism Board, provisional visitor arrivals in April rose 18 per Assuredly cent to 2.89 million from the previous month. The daily average figure for the month is equivalent to about 58 percent of the pre-pandemic level.
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Moriarty added that the park will return to operating six to seven days a week in June, up from the current five days a week.
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