A SWOT Analysis Of Vancouver's Film Culture

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• Strengths
Culture— Canada and the United States have a similar culture and speak the same language. Canadian film culture has always been influenced by Hollywood. In fact, most of the Hollywood movies, television, and especially fantasy film and television productions were filmed in Vancouver or Toronto. In the past 10 years, this figure has remained around 1,500 every year. Now, Vancouver is the world's third largest film and television base after Hollywood and New York. In 2010, the entire movie production value reached $1.5 billion. In addition to providing scenes such as the X-Men, Twilight, and Museum Night, Vancouver has a large number of special effects studios that specialize in making Hollywood special effects. Canada’s film culture …show more content…

The results show the median household income in Canada was ¢70,336, an increase of 10.8% from 2005 (¢63,457). For theme parks, this will be an advantage that tends to grow with the growth of the middle class. As disposable income increases, people become more interested in spending on leisure time and other entertainment. This rule applies not only to the middle class within a country, but also to the middle class in the interior of a country. If a market can support the theme park, then you can be sure that there must be a good middle class behind it.

Land resources—Canada is the second largest land resource country in the world. For the theme park, land is a very important part, and Canada's rich land resources can provide more choice on the theme park's location, size, etc.

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The data shows Top 20 North America theme parks ranking, which Canada has only one (Canada’s Wonderland), while the other 19 are located the United States. It can be said that there is a lack of large-scale theme parks in Canada. If universal studio theme park can enter the Canadian market, it will bring great market opportunities to Universal Studios theme parks. At the same time, there are few theme parks in Canada, and Canada local theme parks lack brands image, self IPs, and culture.

• Threats
Threat from the US— The US theme park market has a certain impact on the Canadian theme park market. Regardless of the scale of the theme parks, the number of theme parks or the theme park-related industry chain, United States theme parks all ranks number one in the world. Because of the fast transportation and policies, it is very easy for Canadians to travel to the United States. And this will also divide the market of the local theme park in

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