Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance to get away from the routine and enjoy the finer things in life, such as tourism. That was the vacation...
...idea that English is the only language worth knowing is not only an insult to the countries with whom we practice trade and tourism, but it is also a handicap to our own success and culture...
...double rooms in the catacombs of this magnificent edifice which could easily be converted into pleasant living quarters. And parents staying there would be able to assist in their children's registration and visit popular courses as "Justice" without ever going outside. This feature could increase the school's tourism revenues substantially during Boston's cruel winter months...
...Ocean archipelago itself. A collection of some 1,200 coral islands that together make up only 115 sq. mi. of land, the country lies several hundred miles southwest of India and Sri Lanka. Its 195,000 citizens, most of them Sunni Muslims, earn their living largely from fishing and tourism. Possession of guns is outlawed, except for the fewer than 2,000 lightly armed members of the National Security Service, and violence is virtually unknown. Yet last week the capital island of Male (pronounced Mah- lay) was invaded, briefly but brutally, in an unsuccessful coup attempt carried out by foreign...
...bloated red-light area studded with 256 hotels. Indeed, the metaphor of selling out is given flesh by the embarrassing statistics of Thailand's sex trade: perhaps 250,000 women in Bangkok alone respond to the siren call of a business that goes hand-in-hand with tourism. And the get-rich-quick promise that tourists embody has also led to shadier enterprises: Thailand is already famous for its pickpockets, smugglers and heroin dealers...