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Before the 2002 Olympics, the perception of Salt Lake City, Utah, was no postcard: picture a geographically isolated and socially conservative burg with a dead lake to the west and a deader night life. Seventeen days, several billion television viewers and more than 300,000 visitors later, Salt Lake was something to write home about: a world-class destination that attracted a record number of skiers who found powder, speed and fun. "Everyone here was exceptionally happy during the Olympics. I think they were relieved not to have their low expectations realized," says Renee Crabtree, owner of Renee...
November on Florida's Gulf Coast makes a much different postcard. Newly planted palm trees line swaths of land buzzing with the construction of one business complex after another. In a spiffy new housing development, the Everetts relax under the vaulted ceilings of their living room, gazing out through glass doors at their pool and hot tub overlooking a lake. A year ago, Delia's employer, magazine distributor Source Interlink, decided to consolidate its several big-city offices and relocate to Bonita Springs, Fla. (pop. 32,800), a fast-sprouting town on the booming stretch of coastline between Fort Myers...
...know it’s a tough sell. Ivy League hometowns come in two varieties: bucolic small towns whose postcard streets are overrun with bed-and-breakfasts, all-vegan cafes and Williams-Sonomas (Ithaca, Princeton), and famous big cities theoretically inhabited by yuppies and sitcom characters, even if the actual neighbors have to be kept at bay with swipe cards and rent-a-cops (New York, Philadelphia). New Haven doesn’t do bucolic. New Haven has no elegant skyscrapers or swooping, glittery bridges which can be artfully photographed for the covers of admissions brochures. The closest we?...
...time it takes to deliver a postcard is also out of sync with the way we holiday now. In the Thomson poll, 25% of respondents said postcards took too long to arrive. That may not have been true 20 years ago, when people went on trips of opulent duration-a three-week meander through Europe, say, or a monthlong U.S. tour. But in these days of city breaks and three-night packages, you usually get home before your postcards...
...There is one major downside of the postcard's passing, however: it is frequently being replaced by the lengthy travel diary, in the form of a group e-mail, that your vacationing friends feel compelled to send from every Internet café they visit. Technology has suddenly made it all too easy to dispatch gushing, gee-whiz accounts of trips to the Pompidou or dives off the Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian beaches or at Bangkok street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and hotel mix-ups are tacked...