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With the click of a mouse and a wave of Tinker Bell's wand, you
can begin making online plans with family and friends for a Walt
Disney World Resort vacation.
Disney's Magical Gatherings is a new, multi-faceted program designed
to help groups of travelers organize and get the most from their
Walt Disney World vacations, and Magical Gatherings interactive
online-planning tools debut Oct. 15.
As soon as you download the Magical Gatherings Planner at www.disneyworld.com/magicalgatherings
, your online vacation-planning session begins, and the famous animated
fairy from Peter Pan flits across your computer screen to guide
you through easy itinerary-planning steps. The user-friendly Web-planning
tools allow you to:
 Establish a group to plan your Magical Gathering,
then create and send electronic invitations to family and friends
Participate in group chats to discuss vacation
plans
Compile your own and group "favorites"
of Walt Disney World attractions
Produce custom polls and cast votes on "must-see"
activities for the group's itinerary
Browse other Walt Disney World Web pages and
share them with group members
Build a complete vacation itinerary
Embellish messages to group members with animation
of Tinker Bell as she winks, pouts, or pixie-dusts the screen
The Magical Gatherings Web-planning tools are designed to provide
an online environment in which friends and families can have fun
and feel comfortable sharing their vacation-planning ideas.
"Our Web tools provide the vacation planner with a fun and
unique combination of collaborative tools for building consensus
and creating an itinerary," said Paul Yanover, general manager
of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Online. "It's simple and intuitive
enough for easy group planning."
The colorful Web pages and entertaining graphics invite users to
design a vacation around reunions, birthdays, anniversaries and
other events. An invitation window lets you choose an occasion around
which to build a vacation -- from there, invitations can be sent
directly to friends and family.
The first group member to log in and begin planning a Walt Disney
World gathering becomes a group leader with total access to every
Web tool, including the "Create a Poll" feature with voting
prompts. Group leaders can appoint other members as leaders, providing
them access to create polls with multiple-choice options and collect
votes on topics that range from, "What Disney resort would
you like to stay at?" to "What do you want to do on Tuesday?"
Leaders also can interact online to revise the group's itinerary.
During a vacation planning session, the "Browse and Chat"
feature lets group leaders share pages from disneyworld.com about
attractions, restaurants and activities when members participate
in an online discussion about how each participant wants to spend
vacation time. Once your itinerary is complete, call 407/W-DISNEY
to make resort and dining reservations and to lock in recreational
activities, including tee times.
The Magical Gatherings dedicated vacation-planning online tools
provide a helpful tutorial for anyone needing assistance and a direct
link to the disneyworld.com site. A custom calendar on your planning
page "counts down" the days until your Walt Disney World
Resort vacation.
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your Grand Gathering with Our
Laughing Place Travel.
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