Word: resorted
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...damage was confined to areas immediately behind the beach. Today, much of the debris has been cleared away or hidden behind high fences, and damaged hotels and businesses have already reopened or plan to do so in the next few months. "The devastation," says O.B. Wetzell, an American resort developer and chairman of the International Business Association of Phuket, "was surgical. It wasn't total erasure...
...Thailand's Andaman coast?the drop-off in tourist arrivals will cost the island $500 million, or almost double the property damage inflicted by the tsunami. "It's all gone to hell in a handbasket," says James R. Batt, managing director of Laguna Phuket, the island's largest resort, which never closed despite sustaining minor damage. "Phuket is a brand. The association it has in most of the world is as a tropical resort. Now, without question, people know it as an island that was hit [by the tsunami...
...cheerily press their palms into the backs of heavyset men for $8 an hour. On the beachfront, more holidaymakers pile into caf?s to order pizza and hamburgers and fried shrimp and slurp down mango shakes. Anya and Toon Bakker, a retired couple from Holland, have traveled from their beach resort farther down the coast to spend a day at Patong. "We knew people here would need our business," says Anya. "We are not disaster tourists. We are not here to see the damaged buildings. We are here for the sun and the sea, but we are also here...
...resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the scene of such disappointment four and a half years ago when talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority failed to stop the second intifada from spiraling out of control, recently played host to the unveiling of a new cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. We enthusiastically applaud the new cease-fire agreed to last Tuesday by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and fervently hope that it will be strictly obeyed by both sides...
...location of Tiger Woods' wedding. Sandy Lane has the obligatory brilliant beach, spa, golf course, tennis courts and all the trimmings, but besides being a slice of paradise, it has a handful of interesting, on-premises restaurants and one of the few really decent, not totally outrageously priced beach- resort wine lists, as a recent spotting of the fine Picq Petit Chablis for about $50 confirms. From $700 a night. www.sandylane.com