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Articles tagged “movies”

Hotels

Hotels boost business after hooking up with live theatres

In hotels’ infinite search for unique offerings, a live theatre appears to a costly investment but one that’s proven to diversify corporate hotels’ customer base or provide hotels with a specific clientele to court.

Skift | 11 years ago

Hotels boost business after hooking up with live theatres

Media and PR

Ohio hometown of baseball exec Branch Rickey awaits “42” tourism boom

Destinations that serve as film sets are usually on the receiving end of a film tourism boost, so awareness more than droves of visitors would be a more accurate expectation for the homeland of this iconic character.

Dan Sewell, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Ohio hometown of baseball exec Branch Rickey awaits “42” tourism boom

Hotels

Hotels marketing through movies still an unexplored opportunity

If tourism destinations are all over this, as are airlines, then why not hotels? Seems like a missed opportunity so far.

Skift | 11 years ago

Tourism

Star Wars park coming to Disneyland? Survey says ‘maybe’

Uh, yeah. A Star Wars theme park would make Universal's Harry Potter land look like a pre-school, and Disney's got the experience and the money to make it happen.

Skift | 11 years ago

Star Wars park coming to Disneyland? Survey says ‘maybe’

Media and PR

Virginia town parlays Lincoln movie and TV connections to boost tourism

With the exception of the silly QR codes, Petersburg seems like it's making smart decisions to drive tourism to sites recently made popular on television and in the movie theaters.

The Progress-Index | 12 years ago

Airlines

Southwest launches movie-on-demand service for digital devices

Airlines are dreaming of the day when they can ditch the complicated, heavy, and expensive seat-back entertainment systems for profit-generating bring-your-own-device systems.

Rafat Ali, Skift | 12 years ago

Southwest launches movie-on-demand service for digital devices

Media and PR

DreamWorks licenses Shrek and Kung Fu Panda to Russian theme park

DreamWorks wants access to the growing Russian market but knows from high-profile failures like BP that it's smarter to go the licensing route than trying to invest directly.

Associated Press | 12 years ago

DreamWorks licenses Shrek and Kung Fu Panda to Russian theme park

Media and PR

Foreign tourism boards clamor to be the next big Bollywood star

Visa regulations and costs are a top priority for Indian filmmakers when electing where to work abroad, which gives destinations a large incentive to ease visa rules in exchange for the tourism boom.

Skift | 12 years ago

Foreign tourism boards clamor to be the next big Bollywood star

Tourism

Hawaiian legislators are trying to make celebrities’ vacations less paparazzi-filled

The thought that a "Steven Tyler Act" describes anything other than dressing like a 60-year-old woman with multiple facelifts is hilarious enough on its own, but letting the thought of this law proceed this far speaks to how far some lawmakers will go to make a famous person happy.

Anita Hofschneider , Associated Press | 12 years ago

Media and PR

Would you buy a guidebook from this obnoxious man in a tank top? Rough Guides hopes so

It's disconcerting that Rough Guides' last shot at keeping the brand alive is in the hands of this man.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 12 years ago

Would you buy a guidebook from this obnoxious man in a tank top? Rough Guides hopes so