Word: tourisme
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...students over Thanksgiving break. While none witnessed the overnight lines or shopfloor brawls seen elsewhere in the country, many local businesses said yesterday they expected to equal or improve upon their performances last year. And the varying successes of Harvard Square businesses point to trends in consumption and tourism in Cambridge over the holiday weekend, with growth more pronounced at larger stores and branches of national chains. Urban Outfitters claimed to be experiencing a typical rise in purchases this year, while employees at the Gap and Jasmine Sola said they were too busy to comment. “We?...
...that has been spared this kind of fire-sale is an Art Deco-style mansion on the outskirts of Karaikudi now converted into a boutique hotel, the Bangala, tel: (91 4565) 250221. Chettinadu Mansion, tel: (91 4565) 27308, a similar property, also recently opened as hotel. Tamil Nadu's tourism commissioner, Shakti Kanta Das, hopes hotels like these will propel the region "to the threshold of big-time tourism...
...fraternal duo, Bob Tisch, who once served as U.S. Postmaster General, is credited with inventing the "power breakfast," originally a meeting of corporate and civic leaders who gathered at his Regency hotel in the 1970s to help solve New York City's economic woes. Later he boosted tourism as chairman for 19 years of the city's visitors' bureau...
...base has been shredded, forcing New Orleans to limp along on about a quarter of its usual income of $400 million to $500 million per year. The city has lost an estimated $1.5 million a day in tourism revenues since Katrina, and only a quarter of the 3,400 restaurants are open. Moody's has lowered the city's credit rating from investment grade to junk. The latest insult? The nation's flood-insurance program ran out of money for the first time since its founding in 1968, and some insurers temporarily stopped issuing checks...
Business leaders are losing patience with Sanford's vetoes of budget items like trade centers and tourism marketing. Even G.O.P. bosses charge that he is worse at economic development than at grandstanding, as when he visited the legislature last year carrying piglets to protest what he considered pork-barrel spending...