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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.

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....

Tourism accounts for around 20% of Jamaican GDP, but the recent four-day gun battle in Kingston is having an impact well beyond where it happened. Tourists are scared off -- even from resorts far from the unrest -- ending what has been a great year so far.

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...

Morgan Stanley has decided to cut its losses in Atlantic City. The investment bank is selling its stake in the Revel casino and taking a "substantial loss," one that some analysts estimate could amount to $800 million to $1 billion.

The Federal Reserve is certainly practicing the "do as I say, not as I do" rule when it comes to setting up meetings. Two conferences at luxurious sites, one hosted by the Boston Federal Reserve and one hosted by the San Francisco Federal Reserve, would certainly have raised eyebrows if AIG booked...

First let's repeat the mantra: if something is discounted, you did not earn the money you saved. You just failed to spend quite so much. And with that out of the way, a story of a promotion that combines a luxurious tropical vacation, would-be parents, a slightly inappropriate biological tie-in,...

Regional scam artists have put a new twist on the old Nigerian check deposit swindle. At least one county in Wisconsin has come up against a check deposit fraud which is aimed at unsuspecting resort owners there. A blurb from WJFW television in Northern Wisconsin indicates that the Sheriff of...

What happens in Vegas may stay there, but these days, the problem is how to get there in the first place. McCarran Airport, Vegas' major entry point, reported its biggest year-on-year drop since after 9/11. And Southwest Airlines, the rare profitable airline which recently said it wouldn't need to...