Word: tourism
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...region administration. "We have looked at what mining has done elsewhere, and we will not go the route of Magadan and Yakutia." Nor does he see Alaska as a model, noting that it has been "spoiled" by mining and oil development. Instead he sees future growth coming from fishing, tourism and some mining in tightly controlled circumstances. The authorities in Kamchatka know how to act decisively. In 1994, after a binge of poaching and sport hunting halved the number of brown bears in just five years, wildlife officials clamped down on the use of helicopters during hunts. The bear population...
...James' first official acts this year was to cut sharply the number of minority voting registrars, an emotional issue in a state where many blacks remember the poll tax. Hard feelings were made worse when James initially named an all-white cabinet, only later adding one black--as tourism officer...
...FIVE-YEAR RESIDENT OF THE GRAND Canyon, I would have found your story "Crunch Time at the Canyon" [Environment, July 3] almost laughable if it weren't for the distortions that will hurt our tourism-based economy and probably cost some locals their jobs. The people who are trying to scare visitors away from their national parks are the same ones who told us that if we shut down our logging, mining and ranching, we would benefit from tourism. The environmental alite are spreading stories designed to keep average Americans out of their playgrounds this summer. Perhaps people should show...
...idea that tourism inevitably strips off some holiness of place, some magic, may be descended from the primitive conceit that a camera steals the soul of the person photographed. The sacred place (Mount Sinai, Mount Fuji, the Grand Canyon) is an onion, and each new wave of Visigoths with video cameras peels away a layer of mystique, until the magic that drew the stranger in the first place is gone, and instead the tourist finds--other tourists. And with them, the hotels and fast foods and souvenirs and globally identical amenities. A real traveler hates all that...
...inevitable that tourists corrupt the places they visit? Probably. But wait: maybe we could turn it around. Make tourism a moral force, a technique for civilizing war zones, for example. In Papua New Guinea, tribes firing arrows at one another across an unpaved track through the forest have been known to break off hostilities to allow a tourist bus to pass...