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...only military, is seeing its obscure Tannat reds served by U.S. sommeliers like Richard Di Giacomo at Miami's pan-Latin restaurant Cacao. "The real fun of wine is sharing new discoveries," says Di Giacomo. And as Casa Silva's plans show, the designer-grape push is broadening wine tourism for countries like Chile and Argentina, once remote outposts to all but Patagonian penguin watchers but now magnets for vini-vacationers tired of Napa and Burgundy...
Taking Off from Gate 3: Tourism...
...According to a report by the International Air Traffic Association (IATA) released last month, global air-traffic levels in the first five months of this year have been 8.8% above those of 2000, the last normal year for the industry (before SARS and terrorism struck). The Madrid-based World Tourism Organization (WTO), a United Nations agency, echoes the good news. It expects tourism to grow 5% in 2004. The WTO reports that France is the most popular tourist destination this year. Asia is also rebounding from last year's devastating SARS season: compared with 2003, Asian airlines' passenger traffic...
...Igualero there was only one public phone as late as 1993. Townsfolk used their traditional whistle language to announce, "Call for you, Pedro!" Today, La Gomera remains home to about 18,000 residents, and tourism is helping to stanch emigration by those no longer able to make a living from farming or fishing. Ferries make the 40-minute trip from Tenerife, and one of the attractions, apart from a rich flora in the cloud-shrouded peaks, the highest of which is just under 1,500 m above sea level, is the chance to hear whistle-speak. When Eugenio Darias...
...Robyn Thieringer, executive director of the Cambridge Office for Tourism, said there was hope for a resurgence of visitors...