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...revenue shrink by more than 15%. In Spain, year-on-year arrivals dropped by 16% in February - the country's sharpest decline in years. And in the tropical islands of the Caribbean and South Pacific, it's a case of surf, sand and empty beach chairs. In February, French Polynesia reported a 30% drop in year-on-year arrivals - tourist numbers are now at levels last seen in 1996 - while the number of tourists cruising between the islands of Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda in 2008 sank by almost a fifth. The WTTC estimates the travel industry will contract...
...least a month to get it through local customs," says Palacoeur, who lists among his triumphs securing a submarine for an underwater wedding in which the groom was a diver but the bride was not. "That was the deepest kiss I ever saw!" 156 98730, Bora Bora, French Polynesia; tel. + 689 607 630; jerome.palacoeur@ interconti.pf
...mats stand up resolutely well as art. In their exploration of color and line, they score a knockout punch, from the muscular motifs of Hawaii, which resonate powerfully with "echo" quilting, and the psychedelic patchwork technique of taorei, from the Cook Islands, to the elaborate appliqu?s of French Polynesia, which make Matisse's cut-outs look like child's play. But it is the threading through of more personal visions that transform these tapestries into serenely subversive artistic statements. When Englishman John Williams brought Christianity to Samoa in 1830, he could not have imagined the extent to which it would...
...cultures have ignored the human imperative to celebrate. When 18th and 19th century European explorers fanned out across the globe, they found colorful and ecstatic festivities everywhere--among the hunter-gatherers of Australia and the North American plains, the horticulturists of Polynesia, the village peoples of India. Recently discovered cave art from England shows what the archaeologists call "conga lines" of female dancers from at least 10,000 years...
...Muslims and their fellow citizens gets wider: hearts harden, fear seeps in, unreal stereotypes become set in concrete. But that's not happening in those communities where Muslims live in large numbers. The Sydney suburb of Lakemba is Australia's Islam Central; immigrants from the Middle East, Asia and Polynesia have transformed a place that was solidly Anglo-Irish and European (and obviously Christian) for most of last century...