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• First, there pre-season ticket sales and lodging bookings are up 15% from last year.
• The weak U.S. Dollar will bring in much more international travel to the resorts.
• In 08'  the company will realizes the profits on its new constructions real estate deals.
  
• The company has successfully turned the resort area into a summer destination as well.
• The company is extremely undervalued because of unrealized gains on owned real estate!

• Initial Jobless Claims for the week of 9/19 - Street expects 550K

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Vail Resorts Inc. (NYSE: MTN) reported an earnings drop of 29% for its fiscal third quarter. Weakness in visits from out-of-state guests was the primary reason. Total skier visits across the company's properties -- Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone and Breckenridge in Colorado, and Heavenly in California -- were down 5.3% relative to the same period for the previous year.

• Initial Jobless Claims for the week of 5/30 - Street expects 620K, compared to 623K last week
• Productivity for Q1 - Street expects 1.2%
• Unit Labor Costs for Q1 - Street expects 2.9%

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If you do rent or buy that Winnebago, perhaps one of your destinations will be Colorado and its spectacular mountains. Specifically, Vail Resorts (NYSE: MTN) offers families fantastic summertime destinations.

Sure, with the economy hemorrhaging, taking a trip to Vail may be inappropriate, but life is short. We've avoided financial armageddon, and the economy is slowly returning to normalcy. This summer will be the beginning of a new uptrend for stocks, and MTN deserves consideration.

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Before you retreat to your favorite summer locale with the perfect book, let's take a look at the stocks set to profit as consumers look to enjoy the fruits of their labor over the next several months.

For me, summer means lots of boating, fishing, and time with my family. And this year I'll be doing more of each to make up for lost time spent hunkering down during the downturn.

As such, companies that make the goods in each of these categories should do well. That's how it goes during a recession. Demand builds as we retreat to preserve cash and fix balance sheets.