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...state assistance. Ireland has budgeted $30 million for hotel development. Egypt, aware that increasing tourism will soon bring in about as much as tolls on the Suez Canal ($170 million), is spending $60 million on 40 new hotels, Nile River tourist boats and a Red Sea fishing resort at Ghardaka. The government now floodlights the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza, and stagey a four-language "Sound and Light" panorama that relates the story of the Pharaohs. India is subsidizing airplane trips to the remote temples of Konarak. To ease Occidental sensitivities, Tokyo's municipal council recently allocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: One Export Never Leaves Home | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

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