I've been out of the loop for about 1 week so I'm sorry if this is a repeat.
Disney raises ticket price for Night of Joy
By Robert Johnson and Todd Pack
Sentinel Staff Writer
August 26, 2002
Although Walt Disney World didn't raise theme park prices this year, it's hiking the admission for the annual "Night of Joy" Christian music event by $2 per advance ticket to $34.95 plus tax.
That hike keeps pace with Universal Orlando -- which did raise theme park admission prices this year -- and its competing "Rock The Universe" songfest.
For the fifth straight year, both attractions have scheduled their Christian music events head-to-head. They will be held Sept. 6 and 7. And both will feature many of the biggest names in religious music.
At Universal Studios, the Grammy Award-winning Jars of Clay will appear on Sept. 6. Also appearing there will be Third Day, a former winner of the Gospel Music Association's Artist of the Year award.
Disney World's event will be held at Magic Kingdom and feature such performers as Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman and Kirk Franklin.
"Night of Joy" began at Disney World in 1983. Universal started "Rock The Universe" in 1998.
Spinning Orlando
The Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau plans to place ads in dozens of newspapers and magazines in the coming year, but that's only one of the ways it will try to sell travelers on Central Florida.
Bureau officials will try to sell the nation's travel writers on the idea of Orlando as a destination for a "girlfriends getaway" and family spring break.
Spokeswoman Danielle Courtenay told tourism leaders at last week's annual bureau marketing briefing that the idea of a girlfriends getaway is for groups of women to come to Orlando for shopping, spas and dining.
Courtenay said the bureau used the "family spring break" line in print and TV ads this spring only to discover that travel writers "thought of spring break as college students in Daytona Beach." In fact, spring break is historically one of Central Florida's busiest seasons.
Courtenay said the bureau has registered the term "family spring break," to prevent others from using the phrase.
Petite pampering
You can catch your child's wrinkles early on by signing them up for a facial, manicure and pedicure -- the new "Minnie Pampering" session at Disney Institute's spa. Beginning Oct, 1, the spa treatments will be offered to boys and girls ages 10 to 14. The 90-minute sessions cost $110.
Robert Johnson can be reached at rwjohnson@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5664. Todd Pack can be reached at tpack@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5407.
Copyright © 2002, Orlando Sentinel
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busi...082602aug26.story?coll=orl-business-headlines
Disney raises ticket price for Night of Joy
By Robert Johnson and Todd Pack
Sentinel Staff Writer
August 26, 2002
Although Walt Disney World didn't raise theme park prices this year, it's hiking the admission for the annual "Night of Joy" Christian music event by $2 per advance ticket to $34.95 plus tax.
That hike keeps pace with Universal Orlando -- which did raise theme park admission prices this year -- and its competing "Rock The Universe" songfest.
For the fifth straight year, both attractions have scheduled their Christian music events head-to-head. They will be held Sept. 6 and 7. And both will feature many of the biggest names in religious music.
At Universal Studios, the Grammy Award-winning Jars of Clay will appear on Sept. 6. Also appearing there will be Third Day, a former winner of the Gospel Music Association's Artist of the Year award.
Disney World's event will be held at Magic Kingdom and feature such performers as Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman and Kirk Franklin.
"Night of Joy" began at Disney World in 1983. Universal started "Rock The Universe" in 1998.
Spinning Orlando
The Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau plans to place ads in dozens of newspapers and magazines in the coming year, but that's only one of the ways it will try to sell travelers on Central Florida.
Bureau officials will try to sell the nation's travel writers on the idea of Orlando as a destination for a "girlfriends getaway" and family spring break.
Spokeswoman Danielle Courtenay told tourism leaders at last week's annual bureau marketing briefing that the idea of a girlfriends getaway is for groups of women to come to Orlando for shopping, spas and dining.
Courtenay said the bureau used the "family spring break" line in print and TV ads this spring only to discover that travel writers "thought of spring break as college students in Daytona Beach." In fact, spring break is historically one of Central Florida's busiest seasons.
Courtenay said the bureau has registered the term "family spring break," to prevent others from using the phrase.
Petite pampering
You can catch your child's wrinkles early on by signing them up for a facial, manicure and pedicure -- the new "Minnie Pampering" session at Disney Institute's spa. Beginning Oct, 1, the spa treatments will be offered to boys and girls ages 10 to 14. The 90-minute sessions cost $110.
Robert Johnson can be reached at rwjohnson@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5664. Todd Pack can be reached at tpack@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5407.
Copyright © 2002, Orlando Sentinel
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busi...082602aug26.story?coll=orl-business-headlines