The Glens of Antrim, the walls of Londonderry and Belfast's shopping districts are also proving popular.
They tend to focus deployment in more densely populated areas, and along major highways and office or shopping districts.
Far from the bright lights of Japan's shopping districts, however, young Chinese working in small industrial firms get anything but red-carpet treatment.
"These people need a place to shop, and it's not going to be at the old shopping districts that date back to the days of traditional socialist rule, " Pocock says.
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Adamantia is taking no chances this time around: Under new rules, retailers will have to stay open 24 hours a day for the first month after the release to ease the initial crush and dissuade shoppers from pitching tents in heavily trafficked shopping districts.
Another U.S. counterterrorism official pointed out that there are similarities between the recent attacks in Mumbai and those masterminded by Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian gangster, in March 1993, when 13 bombs went off in Mumbai targeting the Mumbai Stock Exchange, hotels and shopping districts -- attacks that killed some 250 people.
Stores in shopping districts like Myeongdong have added Chinese-speaking staff, their headquarters are using Korean celebrities popular across China and Southeast Asia in advertisements, and glitzy duty-free stores are dropping European luxury brands to give more space to Korean cosmetics chains that are less expensive but more popular in the Asian region.
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Today, it includes 23 hotels, four theme parks (Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom), almost 100 restaurants, two water parks (Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach), a sports complex (Disney's Wide World of Sports), and two shopping and nightlife districts (Downtown Disney and Disney's Boardwalk), as well as six golf courses, three miniature golf courses and lagoons with water sports, all connected by a complicated system of free buses, boats and monorails.
"A promenade along Canal Street the dividing line between the French and American districts is a must: it boasts some of the best shopping in the United States, " says BBC Travel.
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