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The Travel Promotion Act, which is supported by most in the tourism industry, is finding opposition from the airlines.
At stake is a $10 fee to be collected from international visitors. The surcharge is needed to fund a $200 million tourism promotion targeting overseas guests. The Travel Industry Association, whose members include Disney, are behind the [...]

The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) has been lobbying the government concerning visas, security, reporting of crimes, onboard healthcare, sanitation practices and environmental issues. The group has expended $661,000 in their lobbying efforts during the first quarter of 2008.
Among the measures that the group is opposing is a proposed federal rule which will mandate that [...]

The latest report from the Orange County Controller indicates that resort tax revenue for April of 2008 was down 0.5 percent compared to 2007.
While officials claim that the decline is due to Easter being in March this year, revenues also were 3.3 percent less than what agencies had predicted.
Prior to this report, the county collected [...]

Disney has distributed about $700,000 in grants as part of its Disney Helping Kids Shine program.
Forty four Florida based non-profit organizations were the beneficiaries of Disney’s donations which focus on education and the arts.
Eugene Campbell, Disney spokesman stated “When they make our children stronger, safer and healthier, that all is going to help everybody in [...]

The marriage of Disney and Pixar is going on its third year and the NY Times looks in to see if everything is going swell.
How Disney and Pixar are making the integration work holds lessons for other executives faced with the delicate task of uniting two cultures. Tactics that have served [...]

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve already seen the Lifeware House (aka NextGen Home) at CES, CEDIA, EHX or IBS, where Exceptional Innovation demonstrates all the things that a Media Center PC and home automation can do for the everyday consumer—like close the drapes, dim the lights, and fire up the projector when the [...]

Disneyland announced that it would be bringing back the concept of the “House Of the Future” in the form of a Microsoft “Dream Home” inside Innoventions. Now AdAge has been given a tour of Microsoft’s original version on the Redmond, WA company campus.
The mock home, set up on the company’s corporate [...]

Two items sold at the Disney Store have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Both the Pirates of the Caribbean sleeping bag and Tinker Bell’s Wand have been found to be in violation of the lead paint standards set by the CPSC. Both items were sold at the Disney Store from April through October [...]

Like everyone, I grew up going to Disneyland. Even as an adult I loved it there and went at least once a month. I was an annual pass holder, though not like the freaky ones you may have heard of. I’d see the park’s characters and think, “It’d be so cool to work here.” But [...]

A Clermont woman who was beaten by another park visitor at Walt Disney World has sued the theme park, saying that its negligence caused her to suffer permanent injuries.
Eben Self, an attorney for Aimee Krause, said that he filed suit in Orange County Court on his client’s behalf late Thursday afternoon. In a complaint provided [...]