Walt Disney World

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...

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 (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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...