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Delegates will also have several opportunities to tour Boston, including a visit to Chinatown, the Boston Globe, and the Federal Reserve. These events “are meant for more than tourism,” said Yuan, “and will allow the [students] an opportunity to compare their culture...
...Other places bear the same taint. In Sri Lanka and the Maldives, businesses have watched tourists disappear and dollars dry up. Even Bali, more than 4,300 km away from the hardest hit Indonesian province of Aceh, has seen canceled bookings. At an emergency summit of the World Tourism Organization in Phuket early this month, Secretary General Francesco Frangialli called the cancellations in the region "irrational." Speaking to delegates from around the globe, he urged governments to take swift action to get the tourists back "in order to alleviate the suffering of the affected populations...
...tsunami came the threat of disease, leading many governments to issue advisories warning against travel to entire countries. While the fear of infectious disease may have eased and advisories been relaxed, surveys among international travelers by the PTA have found fear of illness remains the greatest deterrent to tourism in the region. ("There is absolutely no problem going there," says Harsaran Pandey, World Health Organization's Southeast Asia spokesperson.) Other potential visitors consider it inappropriate to holiday in a place where lives were lost...
...They should get over their sensitivities. By staying away, tourists are only adding to the woes of those hit on Dec. 26. "The best help that foreigners can give to the Maldives is to come and visit us," says Abdulla Mausoom, director of the Maldives Tourism Promotion Board. "They should understand that tourism is very important to our economy." Although the death toll in the Maldives was relatively low?82 people, including three British tourists?the damage was severe. Of the 200 inhabited islands in the Maldives, 13 had to be evacuated completely; many local homes and fishing boats were...
...designed to stall for time and force concessions from outsiders before sitting down to talk again. The only way to counter it, he believes, is to take swift action both jointly and alone. Japan, he argues, could cut off all shipping; South Korea could halt its many industrial and tourism projects with the North; the U.S. could again press for economic sanctions at the U.N. And the Chinese, Lilley says, could "go to the North Koreans, put their arms around their shoulders, kiss them on both cheeks and then whisper in their ears, 'Oh, by the way, your...