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...will be a showdown between Bush and Gore, and the emphasis placed on environmental policy will be a clear way to distinguish between the two candidates. Is the public informed and mature enough to understand the importance of moving away from fossil fuels and making it a key election issue? If the answer is yes, Bush will lose. ROBERT MUNRO Vancouver...
Throughout the industry, competition is the key to efficiency, innovation and customer satisfaction. A study at the University of Illinois found that the Star airline alliance was holding down prices as much as 36% below those offered by nonmembers on routes where passengers made connections. In the view of optimists, consolidation will always be offset by the limitless demands of individual taste and the enduring lure of the unknown...
...dynamics of postapartheid South Africa are part of the country's draw, both government and the private sector are aiming to put the travel industry in the big leagues. The government, which has underfunded tourism promotion and infrastructure in the past two years, has identified the sector as key to helping boost employment, support rural communities and conserve the environment. A government-business partnership, set up in late 1998, is injecting some $25 million into marketing, with the aim of 20% annual growth in international tourism. The government's streamlined tourist board--SA Tourism, or SATOUR--will focus on countries...
South Africa's diversity--from spectacular wilderness to civilized viticulture, from the complexities of tribal life to the ease of luxury rail travel, from exotic safaris to brassy casinos--is the key to its allure. The primary tourist attractions continue to be game parks and an abundance of spectacular scenery, which draw at least one-third of all vacationing visitors. The menu is being broadened to highlight South Africa's unique heritage of European and African settlement, tribal and colonial wars, pioneer voortrekkers and legendary explorers--and its rich cultural...
Cape Town, in the south, remains the country's key tourist destination, visited by more than half of all foreign vacationers. Over the past two years, 30 new hotels have opened, doubling capacity. The city holds one of the most potent symbols of the new--and old--South Africa: a 30-minute cruise away from its Waterfront lies Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years of imprisonment. It is now a museum and national monument. In the nearby hinterland, the Mediterranean-style wine lands provide travelers with more evidence of change: a growing number of wineries...