Late Bookings! Is It Worth Hanging On For A Deal?

I’m wondering if the mixed messages coming from the cruise industry at the moment are there to create a ‘smoke and mirrors’ effect?  Cruise lines are reporting bumper bookings for 2010, generated, no doubt from the early booking incentives and low deposits being offered.  It’s just as well given that they are having to provide value-added incentives, like onboard credits, in addition to reduced prices to generate bookings for this summer. The way that the cruise industry markets itself will need to change.  The Passenger Shipping Association (PSA) reported this week that more and more cruisers are booking late, within three months of departure.  That’s obviously a recession-driven pattern – people hold back from spending until the last minute, hoping they will get a bargain, and hoping they will be in a position to take a holiday.   The thing about trends like that is that they tend not to revert back once the economic situation changes.  So, the cruise lines could find themselves having to re-evaluate their pricing and discounting strategies to address the downward spiral.  Hopefully they will realise what the public has been reliant on … cruise holidays , just like food, have a sell-by date.  And the closer you get to that sell-by date, the lower the price goes

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Late Bookings! Is It Worth Hanging On For A Deal?

I’m wondering if the mixed messages coming from the cruise industry at the moment are there to create a ‘smoke and mirrors’ effect?  Cruise lines are reporting bumper bookings for 2010, generated, no doubt from the early booking incentives and low deposits being offered.  It’s just as well given that they are having to provide value-added incentives, like onboard credits, in addition to reduced prices to generate bookings for this summer. The way that the cruise industry markets itself will need to change.  The Passenger Shipping Association (PSA) reported this week that more and more cruisers are booking late, within three months of departure.  That’s obviously a recession-driven pattern – people hold back from spending until the last minute, hoping they will get a bargain, and hoping they will be in a position to take a holiday

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Disney Remaking Flight of the Navigator

Walt Disney Pictures is developing a remake of the sci-fi adventure movie Flight of the Navigator, says The Hollywood Reporter.

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Disney and Pixar’s Up looks to fly through its opening weekend

Walt Disney Pictures has certainly had its hands full these past few years, what with Pixar Animation Studios match-ups such as Wall-E and Ratatouille, upcoming productions such as Pirates of the Carribean 4, Frankenweenie, Jailhouse Rock, … Original story at Examiner.com . View our complete collection of news and blogs, plus related videos, photos and more at Boxxet: Walt Disney Pictures .

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The Very First Review of Google?

 CA A search for “disney” top-ranked disney.com, and sections within it like Disney World, the Disney Channel, and Walt Disney Pictures. Yet interesting alternative sites, such as Werner's Unofficial Disney Park Links, also made it on the list. ..

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‘The Princess and the Frog’ trailer to unspool before Disney … - The Times-Picayune

Following a montage of images from "Aladdin," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Little Mermaid" and "The Lion King" — with an emphasis on those films' hand-drawn pedigree — appear the words, "After 75 years of magic Walt Disney Pictures brings a classic …

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Walt Disney Pictures news and blogs - May 24, 2009

Below is today’s roundup of news and blogs that haven’t yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Walt Disney Pictures news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.   •   'Terminator Salvation' fires off first box office round as the …

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Future Sound

 India In August, Pookutty begins work on the Walt Disney Pictures martial arts film on Kalaripayattu, 19 Steps, starring Kamal Haasan, Asin and Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano. He has signed up two other Hollywood films for 2010

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At Cannes, ‘Up’ Laps Up Palm Dog Prize

 NY By Dave Itzkoff Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios Good boy! Dug, from the animated feature “Up,” has won the Palm Dog prize at Cannes. In what we assume is the first cinematic competition in which a graphic and divisive movie by Lars von … Original story at New York Times .

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Walt Disney Pictures news and blogs - May 22, 2009

Below is today’s roundup of news and blogs that haven’t yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Walt Disney Pictures news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

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