Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...influx of free-spending visitors has triggered a migration from the mainland of people seeking tourism-related jobs. In 1970 the year-round population was about 2,000 people; now it is close to 15,000 and growing 8% a year. The new arrivals are already straining the Galapagos' water supply and waste-disposal systems, and they are putting pressure on the social fabric as well. "The newcomers just come here to make money," complains Esperanza Ramos, who arrived with her husband and four children in 1968. Like other residents, she blames the new wave of immigrants, many of whom...
Eager to save this irreplaceable scientific resource--yet mindful that the Galapagos generate as much as $60 million annually in tourism revenues--the national government has tried to curb the worst excesses. But it has not provided park officials with the backing they need to fight poachers or to wipe out introduced species, and it has come under intense pressure from fishermen, corrupt politicians and a charismatic leader named Eduardo Veliz, the Galapagos' delegate to the National Congress. Tapping into widespread local resentment, Veliz pushed a law through the Congress that would give the islands enormous autonomy in setting their...
YOUR ARTICLE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF the gay travel market to Miami Beach's economy was interesting [TOURISM, Sept. 25] but a bit careless. The statement that gays "typically have far more disposable income than do straights" and the quote from the pollster who says that gays "clearly spend disproportionately more on travel than any other group" can only serve to fan the flame of a newer, supposedly more positive stereotype of gay and lesbian people. But still a stereotype. JEFFREY MOSTADE Cleveland, Ohio Via E-mail...
...Yankelovich Partners, a polling firm that surveyed gay and lesbian spending patterns. Gay travelers also tend to be more loyal than straights: surveys show they are especially appreciative of good service, and, if pleased, will return to a restaurant, hotel or resort again and again--as Miami's tourism officials discovered when they noticed that gays were continuing to visit even as less hardy travelers were being scared off by the area's troubles...
...grain elevators, casinos shaped like casserole dishes, accordions, automatic washers. Celebrities will flock to the canyon. You'll see guys on the Letterman show who, when Dave asks, "Where you going next month, pal?" will say, "I'll be in Minnesota, Dave, playing four weeks at the Pokegama." Tourism will jump 1,000%. Guys on the red-eye from L.A. to New York will look out and see a blaze of light off the left wing and ask the flight attendant, "What's that?" And she'll say, "Minnesota, of course...