Word: tourism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting to such Bruegelesque views, whether in Poland or Romania or elsewhere in Eastern Europe, can be a challenge. If communism created an attraction by making time stand still, it also left the region without an adequate tourism infrastructure. Country inns and small hotels are not unknown: in one little town in eastern Hungary, for instance, a hostelry offers a clean bed (toilet and bathroom down the corridor) for $6 a night. In the dining room, a Gypsy violinist helps compensate for the heavy meal. But such places are rare...
...people like Bellotti and Murphy, he argues, and it needs him to slash about $1 billion in fat, reform the education system, create prison schools at abandoned military bases and add 12 cents per gal. to the state gasoline tax to trigger new jobs through business activity and tourism...
...have been debilitating side effects. The suspension or reduction in production in as many as one-third of Chinese factories and the ( cancellation of hundreds of construction projects have contributed to a "floating population" of unemployed job seekers that totals 50 million. In the wake of the Beijing massacre, tourism revenue has fallen nearly $1 billion. To Beijing's dismay, the U.S., Japan and the European Community have stood firm for a year in blocking all but humanitarian loans by the World Bank. Thus commercial banks remain wary of lending money to China...
...protest letters from around the world pouring into the B.I.E.'s Paris office. In Venice the city council remains categorically opposed, as do 63 organizations ranging from police to town planners. "Mounting a spectacular Barnum & Bailey circus is no way to solve real problems of sanitation, transport and tourism," says Alvise Zorzi, author of seven books on Venice and leader of the "No Expo" groups...
What the supporters cannot explain is how Venice could withstand an invasion of up to 500,000 visitors a day -- five times the city's capacity, according to the opponents' estimates. Even without the Expo, Italian tourism will reach record levels by the turn of the century: 2000 is a Holy Year, when tourists will flock to Rome, while Milan may be serving as host for the Summer Olympics. To spread out the traffic, Expo organizers propose holding their fair from January to April -- just when the canals most frequently overflow their banks. Argues Cesare De Michelis: "The idea...