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Theme parks try to return smiles to guests faces after closings
Charlene Oldham
and Susan Strother
of The Sentinel Staff
Published in The Orlando Sentinel on September 15, 1999. |
| ORLANDO, Updated 7:27 a.m. EDT June 23, 2000 --Central Florida
authorities are cracking down on people who sell illegal tickets to area
theme parks.
Authorities arrested six people and shut down five businesses in Orange
and Osceola counties.
Vendors were arrested for selling illegal theme park tickets.
Previously, theme parks accepted the illegal tickets as part of good
public relations. But now, according to Jackie Dowd of the attorney
generals office, the parks are refusing to accept illegally obtained
tickets, and tourists who dont know any better are out hundreds of
dollars.
There are several ways that vendors can get their hands on so-called
illegal tickets.
For example, a tourist buys a five-day park hopper pass but only uses
it for three days. The tourist then sells it to a vendor, who then sells
it to another tourist. It makes sense, but it is also illegal.
Vendors also deal in stolen tickets. They also sell cast member comp
passes. Those passes are not supposed to be s. |
| * The Universal Studios Florida Barney Fun Place (yes, sadly, according
to adverts I saw for the Orlando Tourism Board, its open this year too);
appropriate ones to write would be Universal Studios itself, the folks
in head of both the Universal Studios parks, and possibly the tourism
board for Orlando, Florida (yes, you could say youre boycotting the entire
Orlando tourism complex till they get that damn purple dino outtadeah) |
| In Orlando, which depends heavily on tourist dollars, hotel occupancies are
in single digits in some cases. At the theme parks, like Disney World and
Sea World, parking lots are empty. That means no lines, no waiting. |
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Orlando joins Tampa in bid for 2012 Summer Olympics
Copyright © 1998 Nando.net
Copyright © 1998 Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. (Jun 17, 1998 - 19:21 EDT) -- The tourism mecca of Orlando
joined Tampa on Wednesday in a bid to bring the 2012 Olympics to central
Florida.
The two-city combination improves Floridas chances of landing the
international games, officials said during a news conference at the Florida
Citrus Bowl.
I dont think any region in the United States has more than we have. We
came from a city that was wishfully thinking to a region thats a
powerhouse, Hillsborough County Commissioner Ed Turanchik said.
The bid would have venues stretching along Interstate 4 from Al Lang Stadium
in St. Petersburg to Tropicana Field in Tampa to the Orlando Convention
Center.
The two metro areas have two international airports and will have close to
200,000 hotel rooms by 2012.
Under the arrangement, Tampa would be the center of an Olympics festival and
Orlando its junior partner. Orlando a. |
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