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Attention sports fans, the Orlando Magic have made the NBA Playoffs, so if you are a fan we've got some great Magic playoff tickets waiting for you. Or, if you're looking for some good old fashioned hard rock, then don't miss Meatloaf at the Hard Rock Live.For that matter, Hard Rock Liveshowcases great artists year round.

Orlando has a large number of tourist attractions such as the Walt Disney WorldResort, SeaWorld, and Universal Orlando Resort. It also has a Hard Rock Cafe andis the home of The Ripley's Believe It or Not! Orlando Odditorium, and DiscoveryCove, a resort that is part of the SeaWorld Adventure Park complex. It's no suprisethat Orlando and the surrounding area is one of the most popular vacation spotsin the U.S.

There's plenty to do at Disney with its many facets such as the Magic Kingdom, Epcot,Disney-MGM Studios, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, andDowntown Disney; which includes outdoor shopping, dining, and entertainment area.

Let's not forget Sea World either. Sea World has a number of rides, many shows,and many aquatic animal attractions, you can even pet and feed the dolphins.

Aside from the vast array of tourist attractions, Orlando also offers up a ratherimpressive music scene, as well as a number of different shows like the Cirque Du Soleil - La Noubatickets now showing at Downtown Disney and Wickedshowing at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre.

If you're traveling into Orlando for the first time, check out this quick overview of tourism and transportationin Orlando.

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Orlando is the principal city of Greater Orlando. It is the home to the Universityof Central Florida, which is the second largest university in Florida and has the6th largest campus in the nation. The city is best known for the many tourist attractionsin the area, in particular the nearby Walt Disney World Resort, which is locatedin Lake Buena Vista about 20 miles south of Orlando city limits via Interstate 4.Other notable area attractions include SeaWorld and Universal Orlando Resort. Theregion sees an estimated 52 million tourists a year. Orlando is the second largestcity in the country for number of hotel rooms and one of the busiest American citiesfor conferences and conventions, with the Orange County Convention Center the country'ssecond largest in square footage. It is also known for its wide array of golf courses,with numerous courses available for any level of golfer. It is now official thatOrlando will build a new performing arts center, Orlando Arena.

Orlando has been the home and capital of pop music, mainstream music and alternativerock music, including Anberlin, Britney Spears, Mandy Moore, NSYNC and the BackstreetBoys, as well as Sam Rivers, Creed, Trivium, From First to Last, Matchbox Twenty,Seven Mary Three, There For Tomorrow, Mark Fenlon, DJ Icey, DJ KJ of K5, DJ BabyAnne, DJ Jimmy Joslin and DJ Scotty B. The hip hop music scene, metal scene, rockmusic scene, Reggaeton and Latino scene, are all active within the city. Orlandohas also been called Hollywood East because of numerous cinematic enterprises inthe area. Until recently, Walt Disney Feature Animation operated a studio out ofDisney/MGM Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort. Feature Animation-Florida wasprimarily responsible for the films Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and the early stages ofBrother Bear and contributed on various other projects. The Florida Film Festivalin nearby Maitland is one of the most respected regional film festivals in the countryand attracts budding filmmakers from around the world. In addition, the implosionof Orlando's previous City Hall was filmed for the movie Lethal Weapon 3. A Floridastate film incentive has also helped increase the amount of films being producedin Orlando and the rest of the state.

If theatre is more your speed, then you're in luck. The Orlando Metropolitan Areais also home to a substantial theatre population. Several professional and semi-professionalhouses and many community theatres dot the area including Orlando-UCF ShakespeareFestival, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Orlando Theatre Project, Starlight Dinner Theatre,Mad Cow Theatre, Theatre Downtown, The Osceola Center for the Arts, Winter ParkPlayhouse, Theatre Winter Haven, IceHouse Theatre, and Seaside Music Theatre. Disneyalso a cast theatre company known as S.T.A.G.E. as well as Encore, a cast choirand orchestra whose annual charity concerts have raised thousands of dollars. Inaddition, the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center brings national tours through townon a regular basis. Each spring, local theatres and downtown venues play host tothe Orlando International Fringe Festival, which draws touring companies from allaround the world as well as readings and fully staged productions of new and unknownplays by local artists. Also in the spring, Darden Restaurants sponsors a Festivalof New Plays, hosted by Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival.

Orlando is also home to a wide variety of educational attractions. The Arboretumof the University of Central Florida is an arboretum and botanical garden. It containsmore than 600 species of plants in cultivated gardens. Central Florida ZoologicalPark is located in Sanford, FL on Lake Monroe. The zoo is home to a butterfly garden,herpetarium, and numerous tropical animals. It is currently in the planning stagesof expansion and renaming the facility to "Zoo Orlando at Sanford". Kennedy SpaceCenter is 45 minutes from Orlando and south of Daytona Beach. Visitors can tourlaunch areas, see giant rockets, "train" in spaceflight simulators, and much more.Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is open every day except Christmas Day andcertain launch days. Apart from the Astronaut Hall of Fame, Space Center bus toursrun every 15 minutes with stops at an observation gantry and the Apollo / SaturnV Center. Other guided tours include NASA Up Close, Cape Canaveral: Then and Now,and Lunch With An Astronaut. The Morse Museum of American Art, located in nearbyWinter Park, houses the world's "most comprehensive" collection of the works ofLouis Comfort Tiffany, among its permanent exhibits. It includes Tiffany art glass,jewelry, pottery, and the chapel interior designed for the 1893 World's ColumbianExposition in Chicago. There is also an exhibit on the Tiffany home, and Americanpaintings from the 19th century. The Orange County Regional History Center Featuresexhibits and artifacts from the earliest days of the region to the modern day. Itincludes information on everything from the time of the Seminole Indians to thefounding of the city to the Civil Rights era to the Disney period to today. TheOrlando Museum of Art, has ongoing exhibitions of American portraits and landscapes,American impressionist works, and art of the ancient Americas. The Orlando ScienceCenter is a hands-on learning center with hundreds of interactive exhibits for visitorsof all ages. Images surround visitors on the giant screen of the Dr. Phillips CineDome.Other attractions include the Body Zone, teaching health and fitness, as well asan observatory. The center has the largest refracting telescope in Florida.

Orlando is served primarily by Orlando International Airport, though nearby OrlandoSanford International Airport also serves the area. Orlando Executive Airport isused for charter flights and General Aviation.

Its major freeway is Interstate 4, which crosses Florida's Turnpike southwest ofDowntown Orlando. It is also served by the toll roads of the Orlando-Orange CountyExpressway Authority, particularly the East-West Expressway (SR 408), which crossesI-4 downtown, and Florida State Road 417, which serves east Orlando. The East WestExpressway (SR 408) is undergoing major construction. Traffic congestion is a growingconcern. The lack of east-west mobility in the area creates severe traffic issuesevery weekday and the lack of any free-to-travel (toll-less) freeways other thanInterstate 4 (I-4). It is commonplace to encounter traffic jams on I-4, even lateat night or on weekends.

The Orlando area is served by one through railroad, CSX Transportation's A line(formerly the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad's main line), and some spurs, mostlyoperated by the Florida Central Railroad. Amtrak passenger service runs along theCSX A line. In 2005 Federal and state funding was granted for the establishmentof the Central Florida Commuter Rail service to operate on the CSX A line tracksbetween Deltona and Poinciana, passing through the downtown area and surroundingurban neighborhoods along the way. The service is expected to substantially reducetraffic congestion along the I-4 corridor. The line is projected to begin operationsin 2009. The following major railroad stations have existed in Orlando: Amtrak Orlandostation (originally built by ACL to replace Church Street Station, the only onestill in use) Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Orlando station (now Church Street Station,a tourist attraction) Seaboard Air Line Railroad Orlando station (Central AvenueStation).

Orlando is served by LYNX, offering local transit service which covers the five-countyarea (Osceola-Orange-Seminole-Lake-Volusia). Additionally, Greyhound Lines offersintercity bus service from Orlando to multiple locations across the country.