Business Services Industry
Military Marches Forward with Expansion Plans for Walt Disney World Hotel.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2002
By Robert Johnson, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 4--At a time when many resort hotels at Walt Disney World are in retreat, the one reserved exclusively for the military is charging ahead with expansion plans.
The U.S. Army is planning to double the size of Shades of Green, its 287-room hotel at Walt Disney World, in a $50 million expansion project that may start as soon as April. The hotel is located near the Magic Kingdom.
In sharp contrast with Disney World's recent closings of thousands of rooms at some of its resorts because of slow business, Shades of Green has been turning guests away lately with occupancy rates consistently ranging from 90 percent to 99 percent.
And that was before...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
