Journals By Industry - Theme Parks

HEADNOTE Big Bang Design A Detroit program is designing new ways to keep kids from lighting up. Can mint-green baseball caps, dodgeballs stenciled with the number "i200," and a whist tournament dissuade kids...

LOS ANGELES -- Win a 4-Day Tours4Fun Theme Park Tour from Orlando, Florida; including roundtrip airfare, sponsored by Hop2. After the success of their 5-Day Hawaiian Vacation contest, Tours4Fun and Hop2 have decided...

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has assigned a rating of 'A-' to the following bonds of Orlando, Florida's community redevelopment agency (CRA or the agency): --$28.4 million tax increment revenue refunding bonds (Republic...

HEADNOTE Bookers See Progress in Attitudes, Business Slowly but surely, business is returning. Convention bookers entered last year with fingers crossed, and though official data won't be released for several weeks, there's a...

HEADNOTE Bookings up, luxury revives; Disneyland Hotel still No. 1 Orange County hotels managed a slight icrease in the amount of meeting space here last car amid bolstered demand. OCs 50 largest hotels...

TORONTO -- Travelzest plc (AIM:TVZ) itravel2000, a Travelzest company (LSE:TVZ.L), a leading Canadian online travel retailer, has listed top 12 destinations for the year 2012, based on the online booking trends and consumer...

Underwhelming. It's a fitting word to describe the two proposals to redevelop the former Six Flags site in eastern New Orleans. Pitches were made Jan. 6 to a city panel responsible for reviewing...

Lack of detail is perhaps the only similarity among two proposals the city is considering for the former Six Flags site in eastern New Orleans. One proposal for an upscale outlet mall lacks...

Representatives of RCS Entertainment, which wants to build another amusement park on the former Six Flags site, took note when community members complained Friday that the city's procurement of a developer to take...

Researchers use workshops to teach job skills and to learn more about families with children on the autism spectrum SALT LAKE CITY -- These days, we hear a lot about the disorder of...

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles based online tour supplier, Tours4Fun, is launching a new spread of tours to celebrate Chinese New Year's. Their featured destinations include: Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York...

The financier of a development group that wants to build another amusement park on the former Six Flags site in eastern New Orleans has an insurance fraud conviction on his record. Joseph Mori...

A public comment period on the environmental impact of the American Dream Meado wlands project has been extended by a month, to Jan. 18, in the review of a plan to build on...

LAS VEGAS -- The 2012 International CES, the world's largest consumer technology trade show, takes place January 10 - 13, 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), the Las Vegas Hilton, and...

City officials appeared to have lukewarm reactions today to the presentations of two developers vying to redevelop the former Six Flags amusement park in eastern New Orleans. One contender, RCS Entertainment, claimed to...

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/16adbb/resorts_managemen) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new book "Resorts: Management and Operation, 3rd Edition" to their offering. The 3rd Edition of Resorts: Management...

Hispanic Executive leads Multicultural Video at Comcast PHILADELPHIA -- Comcast Cable, the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services, announced today that Ruben Mendiola has joined the company as...

PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. -- To accompany the historic opening of Wild Eagle, the country's first steel wing coaster in March 2012, Dollywood theme park commissioned the country's largest flying eagle steel sculpture which...

LOS ANGELES & SAN DIEGO -- In a grand welcome to the New Year, Southern California's top theme parks are busy putting the finishing touches on new rides, shows and mega-attractions that promise...