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A Theme-Park Pop Could Help Disney Sparkle This Year
9:00AM 1/06/2011
The holidays drew sell-out crowds to Disneyland. Could this be a sign that its all-important parks and resorts may turn into money makers in 2011? That would be a big change from last year, when they pulled down overall earnings growth.
In 2012, Walt Disney World in Orlando will add some 2,000 new rooms in its "Value" category, which are the cheapest rooms on its property. Cosmetic details of its Disney's Art of Animation Resort were announced today.
In some idealized artist's renderings, the company unveiled the outside of the...
Disney Earnings Fall on Lower Revenue From Parks, TV
4:45PM 11/11/2010
Profit fell 6.7% in Disney's fourth quarter. The company saw lower revenues from its theme parks and cruise line, and changed the way it booked revenue at ESPN. Movie revenues, though, were a bright spot.
Disney Hikes Ticket Prices at Resort Parks
8:50AM 8/04/2010
Disney (DIS) will raise prices for tickets to its resort parks as well as for parking.
The cost of single-day visit to either Disneyland or Disney California Adventure will go up by $4 to $76, while the price of an annual pass will go up by as much as $30, The Orange County Register reported....
Disney World building another 2,000 rooms for the budget market
1:00PM 5/13/2010
Good news, budget Mousketeers! Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., is expanding the inventory of its lowest-priced rooms. The new Disney's Art of Animation resort will add 1,120 suites and 864 standard, motel-style rooms in a section of the park beside another value-class resort, Disney's Pop...
Live, from Walt Disney World, it's the Obamabot!
5:00PM 7/03/2009
Disney's big new attraction this year? The same as the media's: Barack Obama.Walt Disney World in Orlando, hunkering down for the economic storm, is in the rare position of not having any major attractions under construction. Instead, its big summer draw, opened July 3, is the addition of President...
Uncle Walt's wild ride: teaching finance to kids with 'The Great Piggy Bank Adventure'
1:00PM 5/21/2009
Well, isn't this rich? Walt Disney World has opened a new attraction dedicated to teaching kids some rudimentary -- and I do mean basic -- lessons about saving money. Days after Walt Disney World slammed their parents by hiking gate fees at its water parks by as much as 15%, it gave kids another...
Desperate Disney makes history - by offering discounts
7:00PM 11/07/2008
The magic is fading for Disney, but for its customers, it's just beginning. This morning, after announcing that theme park bookings fell off a cliff in the last month and corporate income was down 13% last quarter, Disney's stock dropped 6.1%. Hotel bookings at the Walt Disney World resort are down...
Orlando's airport helps itself by helping you fly there cheaply
11:00AM 10/22/2008
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It's unusual for an airport to think of itself as anything more than a way station. We have to visit them but we don't really want to, and consequently, most of them are resolutely run by bored civic authorities and industrial management agencies. Head to the web site of your local runway, and you...
Disney offering free park admission on your birthday
5:34PM 9/18/2008
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I guess pipe dreams can come true, too. This afternoon, in a balloon-smothered luncheon at New York City's Times Square, Disney announced its big marketing push for 2009, and it has the Mouse doing something it almost never does. It's letting people into its parks for free.The gist of its new ad...
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