Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People don't realize how small the city of Boston is," says Antonio L. Rodriguez, a visitor representative for Boston tourism information. "For the past couple weeks they've been extremely tight, and that's due only to fall foliage...
More than 2,500 Arab, Israeli and Western politicians, business figures and royalty emerged from athree-day economic summitin Morocco with agreements to compliment Mideast peace with economic development, including the launch of a regional development bank, a tourism board, chamber of commerce and business council. "In a sense, they're saying the Middle East is now open for business," saysTIME correspondent Jay Branegan, in Casablanca. Branegan says the event amounts to a political blessing encouraging "the private sector to come in and consolidate the gains made in peace with investment, training and tourism." Whether it works...
Once the sole inhabitants of the island, the Wampanoags have long been distant--both geographically and economically--from the heartbeat of the island's tourism industry. Recently, though, the tribe has begun to come into...
...fact, many of the societal changes forged by the Revolution have already been abandoned in an effort to survive without Soviet assistance. The Cuban tourism industry, for instance, one of the few bright spots in the island's economic fiasco, is closed off to Cuban citizens. Cubans cannot visit the Tropicana, eat at a restaurant, or go to the nicest strips of Varadero beach, which today is used instead by Spanish, Canadian and German tourists...
...Rock-bottom retail prices -- anywhere from 30% to 70% less than those in Europe and Asia -- are expected to bring some 47 million visitors to the U.S. this year, compared with 45.8 million last year. They will leave behind an estimated $79 billion, according to the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration -- up from $74 billion last year...