香港迪士尼乐园(Hong Kong Disneyland)周一公布，将投资5.5亿美元兴建第三家酒店，因为创纪录高位的游客数量帮助香港迪士尼乐园实现了2005年开业以来的最高年度利润。
Hong Kong's Disney theme park on Monday said it is investing US$550 million on a third hotel resort after record attendance figures helped deliver the park's biggest annual profit since opening in 2005.
新酒店主题将围绕来自全球的异国风情展开，2017年开业时，将使香港迪士尼的酒店房间数量增加75%，并进一步提高顾客在园内的消费。香港迪士尼乐园仍然是全球最小的迪士尼乐园。
Hong Kong Disneyland's new hotel, to be themed around 'exotic locations' from around the world, will increase the number of hotel rooms at the resort by 75% when it opens in 2017 and further drive customer spending at the park, still the smallest of Disney's global resorts.
由于上海迪士尼将于2015年底开园，为保持竞争力，香港迪士尼去年10月份决定建设“铁甲奇侠”(Iron Man, 又称：钢铁侠)游乐设施，这将是Marvel人物首次出现在迪士尼主题公园里。“铁甲奇侠”游乐区将于2016年开业。此外，香港迪士尼还计划于今年晚些时候推出“夜间巡游”(Disney Paint the Night)项目。
Plans for a new hotel follow the park's earlier decision to build an Iron Man attraction that is set to open in 2016, the first-ever for a Marvel-based character at a Disney park, as it seeks to stay competitive ahead of the opening of Shanghai Disneyland at the end of 2015. It is also planning a new nighttime parade, 'Disney Paint the Night,' which is expected to launch later this year.
香港迪士尼乐园周一公布，截至去年9月份的财年实现 利润2.42亿港元（合3,120万美元），较此前一年增长逾一倍，游客数量达到创纪录的740万人次。香港市政府和华特-迪士尼公司(Walt Disney Co.)分别持有香港迪士尼52%和48%的股份。
The Disney park, which is 52%-owned by the city's government while Walt Disney Co. owns the rest, on Monday posted a net profit HK$242 million (US$31.2 million ) for the fiscal year ended in September, more than doubling its year-earlier profit, as attendance hit a record 7.4 million people.
在中国大陆游客强劲需求的推动下，香港迪士尼吸引游客接踵而至，数量增加了10%。上一财年来自大陆的游客所占比例达到47%，高于此前一年的45%；其他游客主要来自香港和东南亚地区。
Strong demand from mainland Chinese customers helped drive the 10% rise in visitors and kept the turnstiles spinning. The proportion of visitors from China rose to 47% in the last financial year, from 45% a year earlier. Other tourists hail mainly from Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
不过与更加成熟的亚洲迪士尼主题乐园――东京迪士尼乐园(Tokyo Disney Resort)的收益相比，香港迪士尼的业绩表现可以说是相形见绌。
Still, the strength of Hong Kong Disneyland's figures pales in comparison to the earnings at the more established Disney-themed resort in Asia, Tokyo Disney Resort.
已有30年历史的东京迪士尼乐园的运营方是Oriental Land Co.，该公司1月份公布，受本地经济好转提振，截至去年12月31日的九个月净利润增加34%，至630.2亿日圆（合6.202亿美元）。东京迪士尼由两个独立的主题乐园组成，规模远远大于香港迪士尼。
Oriental Land Co., which operates the 30-year-old Tokyo resort under license from Disney, said in January that the company's net profit for the nine months ended December 31 rose 34% to 63.02 billion yen (US$620.2 million), helped by a stronger local economy. The resort is significantly larger than the Hong Kong property with two separate theme parks.
香港迪士尼乐园开业后前几年运营较为艰难，在2012财年之前一直未实现盈利，部分原因是最初的到访游客数量低于预期。批评者认为该主题公园规模小，缺乏吸引中国大陆游客的亮点。
Hong Kong's Disneyland had struggled in its first years operation and was unprofitable until fiscal 2012, partly because early attendance was lower than expected. Critics have cited its size and a lack of attractions that appeal to Chinese visitors.
为了吸引游客，该公园从2009年开始扩建，增加大型游乐景观设施。去年最后一批新景观已经开始迎客。但2015年底，上海迪士尼主题公园(Shanghai Disneyland)将开业，届时这一竞争将令香港迪士尼游客减少。
To boost attendance, the Hong Kong government and Walt Disney decided in 2009 to expand the park to add major attractions; the last of those additions opened last year. But competition from Shanghai Disneyland, scheduled to open by the end of 2015, could undermine attendance at Hong Kong's compact park.
香港迪士尼周一表示，新建酒店将包括750个房间，融资来源主要是乐园的营业现金收入，迪士尼注入的现金权益，以及香港市政府将部分现有贷款转换为股权。
Hong Kong Disneyland said Monday that its new 750-room hotel will be funded mainly by a combination of the park's operating cash, a cash-equity injection from Disney, and partial conversation of existing loans due to the Hong Kong government into equity.
酒店扩张项目的财务安排还要通过香港立法会批准。目前香港迪士尼乐园包括两家酒店――香港迪士尼乐园酒店(Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel)和迪士尼好莱坞酒店(Disney's Hollywood Hotel)，总计有1,000个酒店房间。
The financial arrangement of the hotel expansion project is subject to approval by the city's lawmakers. There are currently two hotels on site--Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel and Disney's Hollywood Hotel--which provide a total of 1,000 hotel rooms.