The following appeared in a corporate planning memorandum fo
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28 Aug 2020, 01:53
Someone please give it a read.
“Because travel from our country to foreign countries has increased dramatically in recent years, our next project should be a ‘World Tour’ theme park with replicas of famous foreign buildings, rides that have international themes, and refreshment stands to serve only foods from the country represented by the nearest ride. The best location would be near our capital city, which has large percentages of international residents and of children under the age of 16. Given the advantages of this site and the growing interest in foreign countries, the ‘World Tour’ theme park should be as successful as our space-travel theme park, where attendance has increased tenfold over the past decade.”
Discuss how well reasoned . . . etc.
ANSWER
The author concludes that introducing a new amusement park, World Tour, which replicate world famous foreign building will be successful as travelling rate to abroad has increased. The author not only based it on false analogy but also fail to undertake different factors.
First, the argument is based on assumption that because no. of people travelling to foreign countries has increased, this will result into rise in the revenue of the park “world tour”. For instance, if people who travel abroad are mostly due to business purposes and have no undermine interest in touring famous places of that country, then eventually they might not visit the park. Or, maybe people often travel abroad as they might have relatives in other countries, like NRIs. As author didn’t considered other elements this is flawed.
Second, the author mentions that food stalls inspired by a particular country will be situated near that country’s ride. This statement is again flawed. People prefer some country’s dish over other’s and there might be a chance that different countries rides are located from far distance from one another, making it difficult to people encounter the food they want to eat due to long distance. For example, someone wants to eat Indian cuisine but it is 20 miles away from where he is right now. And thus, he will let go the idea of Indian cuisine, which adds another downfall as revenue will decrease. Since, author undermine the distance that person have to travel in the amusement park this statement is flawed.
Third, the author mention that the location of the amusement park will be in the capital city as it has huge no. of international residents. This statement is again stretch and not sustainable an any way. For example, amusement park contributes lots of noise and distortion for its nearby surrounding and making it situated in capital will disbalance peace of the residents. Furthermore, people prefer going amusement park as they are mostly located on the outskirts which help people to enjoy some isolation and peace from city’s noise. But since, it will be located in the capital, many people might change their weekend plan from park to some other place. And hence, decrease in sales.
The argument could be strengthened if the author provided effective correlation between people travelling to abroad and revenue of the business. And have taken other measures is analyzing the characteristics of the park.
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