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...biometric visas until mid-2005. By not providing appropriate communication to the international community in advance, the U.S. has essentially imposed an additional bureaucratic burden—acquiring visas—on all potential visitors. The lack of advance warning may have an undesired deterrent effect on trade and tourism...
Cruise operators are optimistic that they will too. New berths will rise only slightly in 2005 and 2006, and the demand for cruising, which slumped after Sept. 11, has bounced back, growing at an estimated 8.6% in 2003. "I would challenge any other segment of the tourism industry to show rebounding at our pace," says Cruise Lines International Association executive director Bob Sharak...
...highly misleading. The Observer Group of Eminent Persons from the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) found that it was free and fair. The Maldives is a success story. It has achieved very substantial economic and social development. It has used the revenues from tourism wisely, investing in education and health. It is also an example of a liberal Muslim country that combines a commitment to religious principles with a society that respects personal liberty and enterprise. We agree that the country has its problems, but these are recognized and there is a clear commitment...
Cuba's reliance on tourism is a somewhat humbling turn for the revolution, which has long prided itself on producing topflight doctors and teachers--not concierges. But the island state had few other options once it lost its huge Soviet subsidies in 1990. Since then, it has built a $2 billion-a-year tourism industry that accounts for 41% of the country's hard-currency reserves. The annual tally of visitors has quintupled in the past decade, to 1.9 million. The island, roughly the size of Florida, has 11 international airports. With its appeal to mambo-era nostalgia...
Island officials estimate that if the travel ban is abolished, 1 million or more Americans would enter Cuba in the first year; absorbing them is not a problem, says Tourism Ministry adviser Miguel Figueras, because most Americans travel from May to August, Cuba's low seasons. But what about the 2.5 million to 3 million the Cubans expect in Year Five? "I can assure you, for that we are not ready," Figueras says. But judging by the mood in Congress, Americans...