Word: tourism
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...before the passage of the bill by the Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
...before the passage of the bill by the Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
While Puerto Rico battles drug dealers and their violence, the consequences are even more disastrous for the tiny island states that neighbor it. Their economies rely mostly on tourism and perhaps a single cash crop like bananas or sugar. That makes them vulnerable to domination by the drug lords. If large countries like Colombia can turn into "narcodemocracies," how are much smaller and more fragile nations to avoid the same fate when they have little firepower or financial incentive to fight back? "We are really worried," says Robert Gelbard, head of the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics...
Tour buses which parked in Quincy Square will be encouraged to use the parking lots at the Harvard stadium, according to Maura A. Smith, executive director of the Cambridge Office for Tourism...
...late to save the Galapagos. Among prescriptions scientists suggest: cut off immigration, institute a quarantine system to keep out foreign species, upgrade waste and sewage systems, give park rangers more funds and authority to wipe out poaching and illegal fishing, and give local inhabitants a bigger stake in the tourism industry...