Posts Tagged ‘Disney Vacation Club’

Analyst says higher gas prices could crimp Disney World

Even as they attempt to dig out from the global recession, Walt Disney World and other theme parks could face a new threat: Higher crude oil and gasoline prices. That’s a potential concern raised by stock-research analysts who follow the Walt Disney Co. for Janney Capital Markets. “We suspect...

January 12th, 2010 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

New Disney parks chief faces big challenges

For two decades, Tom Staggs has plotted strategy for the Walt Disney Co., helping steer the entertainment giant through multibillion-dollar decisions ranging from the acquisitions of ABC and Pixar to the construction of new cruise ships and theme parks. Now, however, Disney’s longtime chief financial...

December 29th, 2009 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney earnings will shed light on whether theme parks are starting to recover

The Walt Disney Co. will report year-end earnings Thursday, and everyone from Wall Street analysts to Orlando tourism promoters will be searching for clues about whether business at the company’s theme parks continues to slump or is beginning to recover. There is likely to be evidence both ways. Combined...

November 10th, 2009 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney begins selling convention space in Hawaiian resort

With construction progressing on its 831-room hotel and time share in Hawaii, Walt Disney Parks and Resort has begun reaching out to meeting planners in hopes of convincing them to stage conventions and other events at the resort when it opens in 2011. Disney says the mammoth resort will feature approximately...

November 5th, 2009 | Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney Vacation Club cuts sales associates’ base pay but boosts certain bonuses

From Sentinel Staff Writer Jason Garcia Disney Vacation Club, as it attempts to sell more inventory than ever amid a recession that has sapped time-share sales, has cut the base pay of its front-line sales staff by 10 percent. But the Walt Disney Co.’s Celebration-based time-share unit has also...

October 15th, 2009 | Hotels and Resorts, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney Vacation Club goes west

Fireworks at Cinderella's Castle. (Kristin Ford/Orlando Sentinel) Sentinel Staff Writers Jason Garcia and Sara K. Clarke Disney Vacation Club, the Walt Disney Co.’s rapidly growing time-share division, opened its first property on the west coast last week, when the resort formally threw open...

October 1st, 2009 | Hotels and Resorts, Jason Garcia, News | Read More