It's the big Annual Stockholder Meeting today at Disneyland Paris and thanks to Max Fan, D&M contributor who is there we're going to follow the meeting LIVE and this article will be updated each 10 minutes or so with new pictures shot by Max as soon as i get them, so make sure to refresh the page regularly! There we go!
Arrival this morning, the Disney Ambassadors are here to welcome everyone.
Okay, we're in and waiting for the opening of Cinémagique theater in which will take place the annual stockholder meeting!
Good free breakfast at the Restaurant des Stars while we wait for the start of the meeting.
That's it, everyone enters Cinémagique now open!
Everybody's waiting inside Cinémagique for the start of the annual meeting...
The meeting has began and they announced that this year it will be a "simplified" meeting? They also remind everyone that Ratatouille will be the big attraction coming this summer...
DLP CEO Philippe Gas is now talking about the trust in DLP but also about the economy crisis and its effect on tourism in Europe... But Disney has a brand which will be very helpful to get out of the crisis... 510M€ were invested for refurbishment in 2011 with half of the hotels rooms being now renovated and satisfactory rate which has increased of 28 points...
That said, Gas also talks about the loss of visitors with 14.9M visitors in 2013. Expenses per visitor increase by 4% in the park and 6% in the hotels which counterbalance the loss of visitors...
Virginie Calmels president of the supervision committee talks again about the difficult economy but also about the big reactivity of DLP helping to overcome this crisis...
Mrs Calmels also reminded the support of the Walt Disney Company and their help for the debt refinancing...
...30% of guests vacation reservations for a stay at DLP are done through internet...
A Presentation of Ratatouille has just been done by WDI Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald showing plenty of pictures of Imagineers at work as well as ride model and renderings!
All about Tom Fitzgerald presentation of the making of the Ratatouille ride including a HD video of Tom full presentation is in the part two article that you don't want to miss HERE.
Here is a new visual for the attraction - now added in D&M "Great things are coming" header at the top !
We're now at the questions : answers from the audience... (more about this later )
The vote for this year annual meeting resolutions starts now...
DLP CEO Philippe Gas: Surprises for this Spring? There will be many, starting with the new Ratatouille ride opening this Summer...
New Ratatouille teaser unveiled! It's apparently the same one than the german version that leaked a few days ago, but this time in english!
That's it, according to Max the annual meeting is over! Max has filmed the whole thing and the video of the 2014 annual meeting will be embed soon right here, at the end of this post so comeback in two hours when it should be online!
Jump to the part two with Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald presentation of the making of the Ratatouille ride including a HD video of Tom full presentation that i'm sure you don't want to miss. It's right HERE.
Photos: copyright Max Fan - DLP Welcome
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