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...hype. We want to go back to old foundations." When God speaks to Jim Bakker. He reads from George Gilder and tells Bakker to build a $100 million Heritage Total Living Center. Asked to reconcile his weaker commitment to the poor in India to his devotion to spas and hotel facilities. Bakker replied that God's generosity could accommodate both...
...about being asked to think. "We have to choose our own classes here," whines one. The quiet blond in the corner has been here for six months and has lost 100 Ibs. The pounds, sad to say, do not come cheap: Canyon Ranch is not wildly expensive as such spas go, but it still costs about $1,000 a week during the peak season...
...prospects for many hotels, resorts, convention centers and travel agencies are equally unsettled for the short term. Commercial aviation has spurred the growth of American trade-show and convention business, and made possible a 20-year boom in domestic and foreign vacation resorts, ranging from dude ranches to health spas and ski slopes...
...stubborn mood extends to the Red Sea coast, where two Israeli resort settlements have sprung up between Eilat, at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba, and Sharm el Sheikh, near the Sinai's southern tip. The new spas, havens for Israeli tourists, foreign sightseers and hippies, are tolerant to a degree unheard of in Israel. Sunbathers routinely strip naked on the placid beaches. Hashish, smuggled from Egypt, is freely available. Many of the Israeli hoteliers and other developers would like to stay on after April 1982, but the Egyptian entrepreneurs waiting in the wings have resisted all proposals...
...continues, "Mexico can digest just so many petrodollars. And in an inflationary world, what can you do with them? Buy hotel chains in the U.S., spas in Florida...