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...online music market last week with Virgin Digital, Branson hailed plans for an early 2005 launch of Virgin Nigeria, an airline for which his Virgin Atlantic carrier will pay $24.5 million for a 49% share. He also found time to christen Virgin Galactic, the world's first space-tourism operator, whose...
...country has become one of the world's leading eco-destinations, attracting a million visitors a year. With this boom, upscale resorts are establishing beachheads up and down the Pacific Coast, offering championship golf courses, world-class restaurants and plenty of spas. But as hotels and other tourism businesses increasingly set up shop in remote and pristine areas, the government--which lacks the resources for effective enforcement--is facing issues such as deforestation and waste disposal...
Some of the country's leading hoteliers have decided that tourism and conservation don't always have to be at odds. They have begun to work on ways to protect the environment. The newly opened Four Seasons Resort fourseasons.com/costarica on the Papagayo Peninsula sacrifices nothing in the way of luxury. The earth-colored hotel was designed to blend into the tropical dry forest of the northwest Guanacaste region, and its breezy, low-slung buildings overlook tranquil white-sand beaches below. There are tennis courts, pools and a golf course. The hotel has made concessions to the environment...
...their greed if they tolerate this practice. You noted that hunters pay as much as $80,000 to shoot a lion in Tanzania (where the per capita income is around $600). What is an individual's life worth there? Local communities should be encouraged to earn money through sustainable tourism and agriculture. If citizens can support themselves by sharing their wilderness and wildlife with tourists, poaching will decrease. Killing for pleasure sends the wrong message. Helaine Cadman Marlow, England I fear that humankind's plundering of the habitat of these majestic animals and misguided attitudes toward them will be their...
...Looking back, it's clear the trouble actually began eight months before 9/11, when the city's recession started. But unemployment stayed below 8% until the attacks cratered tourism and finance, two pillars of New York's economy. The hits that came next - war, corporate scandals, declining stocks and low consumer confidence - prolonged the slump. From September 2001 to January 2004, the city lost some 138,200 jobs. Unemployment rose to 8.6% in January 2003, when nationally the rate...