For what it's worth....

While at the Point today (Sunday) I stopped by at Guest Serveces at the front gate to see my old buddies Nancy and Lance. They have a computer behind the desk. Nancy was off today... Guess what web page was being looked at? Coasterbuzz's sister site Pointbuzz.com!!

1ej *** Edited 6/28/2004 1:58:34 AM UTC by 1EyedJack***

Lol thats great. So I guess Holiday World isn't the only park that does that.

You'd really be suprised if you knew how many parks check out the more popular coaster-related sites.

Several people at PKI look at PKIUnlimited.com, so it doesn't surprise me at all about PointBuzz.

+Danny

Someone from a ride manufacturer put it to me this way: "Thanks for all of the free marketing research, as well as some laughs."

Sadly, I think he meant more laughs than research, but yes, the industry does watch the Internet. We're their biggest fans and their harshest critics.

It was mentioned a few years ago at Cedar Point and repeated this past week at Geauga, Bill Spehn looks at the various internet forums and uses that info to gauge park performance.

"It was mentioned a few years ago at Cedar Point and repeated this past week at Geauga, Bill Spehn looks at the various internet forums and uses that info to gauge park performance."

In a way, that's encouraging and frightening at the same time!