Shanghai Disneyland shuts doors for third time this year barely 4 days after reopening, as city’s Covid-19 cases rise
- Shanghai Disneyland Hotel, Toy Story Hotel and Wishing Star Park to stay open
- Closure ‘yet another blow to Shanghai’s tourism sector’, industry insider says
This is the third time this year that Shanghai Disneyland has been shut because of China’s zero-Covid policy.
Shanghai Disney Resort, which encompasses the park and hotels, as well as the Disneytown and Wishing Star Park areas, apologised for the “temporary closure” in a statement on Tuesday, and said it needed to comply with Shanghai’s coronavirus control requirements. Its reopening date is not yet known, but the two hotels – Shanghai Disneyland Hotel and Toy Story Hotel – as well as the Wishing Star Park will remain open.
“This deals yet another blow to Shanghai’s tourism sector,” said Li Wenjie, CEO of the Shanghai Yaheng International Travel agency. “The city’s travel industry is unlikely to recover any time soon.”
The park, a major tourist destination in Shanghai, was closed for 101 days between March 21 and June 30 this year, also owing to coronavirus controls. That closure overlapped with a lockdown across Shanghai in April and May, because of an outbreak that saw the city of 25 million residents record more than 600,000 infections.
