JWI 515: Assignment Four: Price Discrimination
Amusement Parks
Professor Serluco
Managerial Economics
Charles W. Slaven
November 30th, 2014
Introduction
Consider these Amusement park pricing scenarios:
Six Flags Discovery kingdom sells its annual season pass for $59.99. According to its website, “Buy your Season Pass for $59.99, just $14 more than a one-day admission.”
Bush Gardens Dark Continent. sells its Fun Card for $95.00. According to its website, “Pay for a Day, Get now through 2015 FREE.”,
Now why would they give away an unlimited entry annual pass for an extra 25% over the single entry price?
What is common in these pricing scenarios?
All these businesses are practicing what economists call, “Metered Price
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Part of the value proposition for an amusement park is the highly developed themed experience they provide. Once fully immersed in the amusement park experience the level of difficulty and inconvenience in accessing alternative providers for staples like food, drink, shopping, and accommodations, grows exponentially. Utilizing spatial discrimination, the parks have several different supply, demand and profit opportunities to exploit.
Higher than market food pricing and profits based on proximity and distance to cheaper alternative. Amusement Parks, like many other entertainment businesses can derive extremely high profits from customers on purchases of goods and services once inside the park.
Zero competition from competitors within park confines. The experience of the park itself requires a good deal of isolation and space so the business can control the imagery, interactions, and exposure to inconsistent inputs. The space and isolation enables the parks to create their own marketplace and exclude other industry actors access to the customers in their park avoiding food, retail, services competition altogether. Once the customer is in the park you control the market and the market offerings and pricing
Ingress and Egress marketing opportunities for personalized content like group photos on T-Shirts, Mugs etc. The parks have cameras throughout their facilities and more often than not have a kiosk standing by to sell customers personalized
The profitability of the theme park industry on the Gold Coast can also be impacted by the bargaining power of buyers (Hubbard, Rice & Beamish 2008; Porter 1980). One factor where the bargaining power of buyers is low is the industry concentration relative to buyer concentration. The theme park industry on the Gold Coast is quite large with seven theme parks located within the region; however these seven parks are owned by only two companies; Macquarie Leisure Trust Group and Village Roadshow (Roller-Coaster 2008B, Online). Therefore due to there only being two companies within the region, the amount of competition between the parks isn’t as fierce as it would be if each park had a different owner. For this reason the buyer doesn’t have as much power against each park
Go there all the time for festivals and events. The first thing you see in the park is the “Branding
might get ill on the rides or on the park and the staff has to treat
The water park should provide employment as well as happy customers. The water park should help the other businesses in the area with added revenue to their business. United States in 2011 theme parks, amusement parks, and water parks generated a total direct economic impact of approximately 55.4 billion dollars (IAAPA).
The secondary target market for Luna Park is that of the young children’s parents as well as their older siblings as well as corporate people experiencing Luna Park on a ‘corporate day’. Adults have the ability to go on all of
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or perceived value is used to set the price of the service or good (Boundless, 2017). Demand-based pricing is well-known for being used in the hotel and airline industry. It was not until early 2016 when Disney decided to make the switch to this as well (Sampson, 2016). Ticket prices now cost up to 20% more during holidays and weekends (Barnes, 2016). Seasonal changes were also included, where “peak” tickets for visits during December, Spring break, and July weekends come at a higher price (Barnes, 2016). A three-tiered system based on the date of the visit was
Competing amusement parks has upgraded their attractions to attract more consumers and Disney is has recently strategizing this approach to a more concentrated perspective. This can ultimately lower their revenues until the plan is complete.
This pricing decision aimed at limiting the number of visitors so that they could also increase their margin per ticket sold and get closer to the “willing to pay” price level. After a market survey, it became clear that guests felt that they got value for money.
It is not seen as an amusement park with thrill rides, it is seen as a completely different world in the eyes of the consumer. If a new business spent the capital to create a theme park, it still has to build a brand to compete with a global media giant with more than 50 years of experience.
Two of the biggest theme parks in Orlando, Florida are Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida. Both of the theme parks are huge competitors when it comes to getting customers and money. In this essay I will show you which of the two theme parks is better than the other, by using multiple different categories that theme parks use when making their parks.
are one of the leading reasons people vacation to many destinations. The theme park market is
In this case there has been a recognition of a trend, which is the trend of people going to theme parks during the weekends for entertainment of them as well as their children. Also here is an existing need for entertainment of this kind. Therefore, an opportunity exists
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The target population in the research is the international visitors in the Australian Parks who originate from all parts of the globe. This means it’s a large group of people with diverse social and cultural expectations. Once they arrive in the parks, these visitors require various services like; reception facilities, parking facilities, maps and information services and human guides.