Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Antibiotic-proof bacteria are spreading around the globe because of the enormous increase in tourism and business travel in recent decades. Last month a woman came to a New York City emergency room with a strain of cholera picked up in Ecuador that was impervious to a variety of antibiotics. Penicillin- resistant strains of gonorrhea, originally noted in Africa around 1976, have cropped up in the Philippines, Thailand and the Washington Heights section of New York City. Public health officials are particularly concerned about potentially fatal forms of dysentery in Central and South America that are resistant to half...
...their products, they generally opt for world-class sports figures or gorgeous starlets. But a travel-industry ad campaign now airing on Japanese television may prove that graying world leaders of debatable sex appeal can sell with all the pizazz of a Vanna White. Developed by Go*USA, a tourism-industry trade group, the commercial features none other than President George Bush promoting the U.S. as a vacation paradise. Over images of rolling lawns and sandy beaches, Bush touts Hawaii, homegrown Dixieland jazz and, in an endearingly shameless display of personal preference, the wonders of Maine and Texas...
...British television earlier this year and was a resounding success. As a result, Go*USA decided to export the commercial to Japan. Last year, taking advantage of a weak dollar, 3.3 million Japanese visitors flocked to the States, creating a near $10 billion U.S. trade surplus in travel and tourism with Japan alone. The travel business and the Commerce Department hope the Bush ad will lure even greater numbers of big spenders to American shores...
...weather is such an inescapable part of life in the Pacific Northwest that the Seattle tourism industry touts it as "liquid sunshine." This year, though, the slogan will have to be shelved in the face of the worst regionwide drought in decades. Along with other legendarily soaked cities like Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, B.C., Seattle has imposed water restrictions, urging citizens to take shorter showers and banning the use of lawn sprinklers. The lush, green vegetation has begun to turn brown. Mule deer does are having trouble finding enough food in the woods to produce milk for their fawns...
...often Africa gets on the cover. It's there quite a lot. But there's never a picture of a person. It's always an animal, always a giraffe or an elephant. [The articles] are always about things of interest to people with cameras and guns, about tourism," he says. "This is a continent which at the moment has huge quantities of refugees all over place, wars and rumors of wars, as well as wonderfully positive things, none of which ever surface. So I think people both need more information and need to stop thinking about Africa as a place...