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Tourists Give Theme Parks Good Reason to Keep Jacking Up Prices
There may come a day when theme park companies see a backlash among vacationers, who refuse to pay ever-high admissions prices. But that day hasn’t come yet.
New Way to Save Downtown: Open-Air Public Drinking, Longer Bar Hours
Bourbon Street, or something sorta like it, may be coming to a city near you. To create more vibrant nightlife scenes and bring faded downtown districts back to life, cities around the U.S. are drunk on the concept of pedestrian …
Disney Banks On Iron Man to Boost Floundering Hong Kong Venture
Marvel-themed thrill ride plays on spectacular success of Iron Man franchise in China
Exclusive: Walt Disney Co. Considers Buyout of Struggling Disneyland Paris
Purchase of Euro Disney shares the company doesn’t already own would be first step in comprehensive turnaround strategy
Why Travel Agents Are Back From The Dead (And Why You Should Care)
Travel agents were once the poster children for that Old Economy horror movie Things The Internet Will Destroy. From a high of 34,000 in the mid-1990s, the ranks of agencies has been sliced by more than half, to roughly 15,000 …