coronamouseman
11-04-2001, 08:07 AM
Am I missing something in the local newspapers or on tv - does it appear to others out there that Disney is doing absolutely nothing to promote the DLR?
1. No traditional SoCal discounts announced at this time - is Disney hoping fear of long-distance travel will bring in local residents without offering discounts?
2. No special hotel offers for overnight stays (at least in announcements or local papers - could be that focus is in places like SF or PHX or even Colorado but nothing
3. No offers other than weekday food and merchandise discounts to AP's - as someone in another thread mentioned some time ago, there are a lot of 2-park APs which will expire in December or January purchased a year ago prior to the opening of DCA - APs in Florida were given extra days as incentive a while back ....
4. Disney does not even seem to be advertising the new HMH locally - don't they usually blitz the media when new attractions like this are launched?
Eisner last week in a meeting on tourism in California seemed to be crying that the State gov't should be spending money to bring in tourists - is Disney's strategy going to be to wait while the State does their marketing for them? With the impending threat of park closures once or twice a week, it would be greatly surprising if the city of Anaheim, which basically bent over backwards and sideways to make it easy for Disney to rebuild the entire area around DLR, does not start to pressure Eisner and his guys to keep things open every day to support the local businesses which endured through the massive reconstruction of the area and now would face certain doom if they lose 1-2 day's worth of business a week. To say nothing of the wages (and taxes) lost by Disney CM's if 1-2 day's worth of work each week are lost ......
Not a pretty site .........
1. No traditional SoCal discounts announced at this time - is Disney hoping fear of long-distance travel will bring in local residents without offering discounts?
2. No special hotel offers for overnight stays (at least in announcements or local papers - could be that focus is in places like SF or PHX or even Colorado but nothing
3. No offers other than weekday food and merchandise discounts to AP's - as someone in another thread mentioned some time ago, there are a lot of 2-park APs which will expire in December or January purchased a year ago prior to the opening of DCA - APs in Florida were given extra days as incentive a while back ....
4. Disney does not even seem to be advertising the new HMH locally - don't they usually blitz the media when new attractions like this are launched?
Eisner last week in a meeting on tourism in California seemed to be crying that the State gov't should be spending money to bring in tourists - is Disney's strategy going to be to wait while the State does their marketing for them? With the impending threat of park closures once or twice a week, it would be greatly surprising if the city of Anaheim, which basically bent over backwards and sideways to make it easy for Disney to rebuild the entire area around DLR, does not start to pressure Eisner and his guys to keep things open every day to support the local businesses which endured through the massive reconstruction of the area and now would face certain doom if they lose 1-2 day's worth of business a week. To say nothing of the wages (and taxes) lost by Disney CM's if 1-2 day's worth of work each week are lost ......
Not a pretty site .........