Word: tourisme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ignored by most Roswellians--Moore, for one, says she never heard of it while growing up--until a recent surge of national interest in extraterrestrial phenomena, both "real" and fictive, convinced locals that rather than be ashamed of their heritage, they might instead make some money from UFO-related tourism...
...Botswana's National Museum and Art Gallery, are crisscrossing the continent, visiting known sites, stumbling across new ones and photographing as much of the art as they can. Everywhere they go they have found images dulled by sunlight, wind and water and damaged by chemical seepage from mining operations, tourism and outright vandalism. "There's an incredible amount of rock art out there," Coulson says, "and little has been done to preserve...
Here's another Times Square story, set a few decades after Giuliani's and told by Maria Alvarado, coordinator of tourism services for the Times Square Business Improvement District: "One summer, when I was about to give birth to my first child, I came down to have lunch with my husband, who worked on 43rd and Sixth. I took the E train, so I had to walk down 42nd. Here I was, eight months pregnant, and I was offered everything from sex to cocaine. Eight months pregnant, and they wouldn't leave me alone." She is referring, of course...
...from the tour bus to Victor/Victoria--might be surprised by the extent to which the area is approaching the millennium in a clean and sober state. That is, if "sober" fairly applies to a cityscape that has become more enthusiastically garish than ever thanks to the capabilities of modern signage. Tourism is rising; crime is dropping, at an even faster clip than in the rest of the city. The area is bustling with new hotels, new office buildings--not to mention new chain stores and corny theme restaurants that would be at home in any suburban mall. Not that Times Square...
...gift certificates to employees whose referrals are hired; plus $50 to the employee and new worker after 90 days; plus another $50 to the newcomer after six months and yet another after a year. But it's still hard to hold help in a region where the boom in tourism and riverboat gambling lets workers quit jobs on Friday and find new ones the next week...