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...spend $300,000 for the meal. Accustomed though they may be to showy p.r. stunts, social activists are nonetheless up in arms over this particular act of epic extravagance. The reason? The banquet comes with a pre-dinner commitment to what the Lebua's p.r. mavens have dubbed "emotional tourism." Hours before digging into truffles and foie gras, the 50 diners will fly by private jet to a village in central Thailand to see how impoverished Thais manage to get by without regular infusions of Brittany lobster and Bresse chicken...
...Needless to say, it wasn't exactly a poster week for the local tourism chamber...
There are other examples. Tourism officials and mountain-climbing companies in Nepal said last week that Beijing has asked Nepal to shut down access to southern climbing routes up Mt. Everest. This year's Olympic torch relay includes a visit to the summit of the world's highest mountain; Chinese authorities recently announced that they are closing their side of Everest - the northern slopes - because of overcrowding and environmental concerns. Most climbers believe the real reason is that China wants to prevent any demonstrations that would mar the event. Last year, climbers unfurled a banner at Everest base camp playing...
...consistently vulnerable to hurricanes and all sorts of weather. It’s also a city that doesn’t know what it is; there’s a military contingent, there’s a farming and ranching contingent, there’s a tourism industry, there’s this small cosmopolitan aspect to it. I’m interesting in that kind of complexity, especially when you couple it with vulnerability. After I had written two or four stories, I saw that the city itself was becoming a character.8.FM: Eva Longoria and Farrah Fawcett also come...
...both sides of the central stage set up before the Wang Shi Bai Huo department store, Tourism Ireland photo displays showcased Irish monuments, Irish people, and Irish ales. Employees handed out pamphlets on study-abroad and travel. Women in fitted and fringed orange sportsuits handed out samples of Bailey's toffee liqueur. Nearly blocking a speaker at the front of the stage, an eight-foot tall poster advertised cheap flights between the two capitals. Tourism Ireland has since 1995 been promoting St. Patrick's Day parades in cities around the world such as Tokyo, Singapore and Moscow. This year...