Your job is to find out as much as possible about how (or could) Disney or other theme park’s prices their theme park tickets, options and discounts, i.e., what pricing models do they use? (Timesaver: Disney is not going to tell you.) How does Disney decide its group discounts? (When you do your analysis, I would stick just to Florida and non-Florida residents as the two main groups.) You are to compile all your findings into a research paper presented to the professor by the end of the semester.
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