UPDATE 2005-2008 Something happened in January 2005. The French government realized that they wanted to succeed. Despite the American-bashing that the after President Bush's invasion of Iraq and President Jacques Chirac's calling spread of American culture an ecological disaster," another French preoccupation the top of reducing high unemployment. Euro Disney's site was the biggest employer in the Paris region with 43,000 and it had created a booming urban sprawl on once-barren land Now Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin vowed not to let Euro Disney go d have lots of respect for bankrupt: "We are grateful to the American people an their culture." A state-owned bank contributed around $500 million in investments and loan concessions The hope that new and expensive attractions better climate would bring a still, the Tower of Terror ride and other new attractions failed to attract millions of new visitors Disney and the French government might have to pour more money into this venture that once seemed such a sure thing. Under consideration was to open Charles de Gaulle airport to more low-cost airlines to make Euro Disney a cheaper destination of Euro Disney Failure would hurt the Disney also had a lot at stake in the success elsewhere in its global brand image as it prepared to expand into China and longer while Far East. Perhaps the lessons learned in Paris of trying to keep visitors saving on fixed costs would transfer The following Information Box Disneyland Hong Kong, suggests that some lessons leaned in Europe and the early years Hong Kong might finally be assimilating, or are they?