Word: tourisme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...golf courses and offices to be vacated in the Canal Zone and U.S. military bases and known collectively as the "reverted areas." Though what was returned before 1994 is generally derelict, the government has elaborate plans for the rest, including the creation of export manufacturing zones, hotels and eco-tourism. A few contracts have been signed...
...reverted areas represent a broad swath of the national territory, and their development could transform Panama. But there are more skeptics than optimists. Panama's dream is to become another Singapore--a prosperous banking, transportation and tourism hub exploiting to the fullest its ownership of one of the world's most important waterways. The alternate, nightmare vision, unfortunately, is of a nation handed a great resource that it then wastes through corruption and mismanagement...
...Didn't Die: Built its comeback on tourism--visitors drawn to the culture of the area's 2,500-member Amish community...
...closed down in 1982, this boomtown went bust--22,000 of its 30,000 residents moved away, J.C. Penney and other retailers shut down, and arsonists torched parts of downtown. But in 1986 it joined the Main Street program, began renovating 200 buildings and cashed in on the "heritage tourism" craze (Okmulgee is the capital of the Muskogee Indian Nation...
...Could [tourism] be managed better? Yes--through better publications and better connections to tour groups," Huppe says. These new publications include The Harvard Guide, a book-length guide to campus sights; a new line of informational postcards; and a historical timeline currently in the works...