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...with blue flags waving in the streets on New Year's Eve, yet only in recent years have tourists ventured much beyond Black Sea beach towns and into the Ohio-size expanse of rose farms, medieval monasteries and Roman ruins. Visitors, especially Western Europeans, are flocking to ski resorts in the Rila and Pirin mountains and have even sparked a property boom in Bansko, where investors are scooping up cheap vacation homes. Meanwhile, low-cost labor, economic incentives and proximity to the rest of Europe are luring record levels of foreign investment from companies like French car-parts manufacturer Montupet...
Starting off its season with another ninth place finish–its sixth in a row–the Harvard ski team is looking to move up in the ranks at this weekend’s UVM Carnival...
...world over, Yubari faced extinction, but during the 1980s and '90s, city officials tried to arrest its economic decline by borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars - with generous help from the central government - to build massive tourist facilities such as the melon museum, the robot museum and the ski resort. The plan worked for a while, and the city even became known for a winter film festival that attracted stars like Quentin Tarantino (who named a character in Kill Bill after the town). But tourism never paid off, and debts piled up. The city was finally forced to declare bankruptcy...
It’s been nothing but nines for the Harvard ski team. Finishing in ninth for the sixth straight time, the Crimson kicked off a promising new season at the University of New Hampshire Carnival this weekend. The Nordic team headed to Jackson XC, and the alpine team hit the slopes at Attitash, the sites of this year’s upcoming NCAA championships. “We were in ninth place again,” said Crimson Nordic coach Peter Graves. “That’s where we were every carnival last year?...
That makes sense to Harsch, who sells real estate when she's not skiing: "It may have taken it a long time to figure it out, but I think the ski industry knows that if women go out on the hill and don't like it, they'll go ice skating or go to the beach or find something else...