Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...region in northern India, rural communities are overrun each summer by trekkers and their hungry ponies, which are destroying the limited vegetation. In Kenya's famed Masai Mara Reserve, overcrowding has become "a nightmare," says Simeon Kanani of Nairobi's Technical and Study Tours. In the mid-1990s the local county council earned $1 million a month for schools and hospitals from gate receipts, but at a price. "If you have 20 to 30 four-wheel drives in the park, is that ecotourism?" asks Kanani...
...years ago, whites needed official permits to enter black townships in South Africa. Now township tours are included in the travel packages of major South African cities, and visitors are invited to spend a night or two with a local family. "It brings out the entrepreneurs in the travel industry," says David Moshapalo, who runs a Johannesburg travel agency. "Bed-and-breakfast operations can start by opening up the family home to tourists who look to experience life with a South African family as part of their holiday...
...after-school menu is crowded with leagues and summer-camp activities ranging from baseball and martial arts to tennis and volleyball. But travel 15 minutes northwest to Clayton's working-class neighbor, the town of Jennings. There the recreation department is understaffed, lacks a gymnasium and relies largely on local public schools and other facilities, creating transportation problems that keep many kids sidelined. "There are some definite barriers," says Cindy Tharp, director of recreation in Jennings. "But if parents want to get their child involved, they'll find...
...ready to tear down an aging ice-hockey rink in a lower-income section of southeastern Washington, D.C., some parents from more affluent communities banded together and raised enough private and corporate dollars to save it. Today Fort Dupont Ice Arena provides free skating instruction to some 2,500 local kids, with its $500,000 annual budget funded through admission fees, fund raisers and sale of ice time for practicing hockey teams from private schools and local colleges. Says rink general manager Fred Wilson: "The greatest reward we get is seeing the expression on the faces of these kids when...
...years Californians have been willing to watch a Japanese cooking show without English-language translation on an obscure local cable channel. The program, a sweaty competition among chefs given an hour to make a meal around a particular ingredient, was so fiercely serious that it provided entertainment aplenty. Now, though, the Food Network has fashioned it into perhaps the most exciting cooking show ever made, simply by adding a mix of dubbing and subtitles. In the show's current incarnation, you can listen to a Bob Costas-like commentator as he is interrupted by Christiane Amanpour-esque reports from...