Word: tourisme
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...brainchild of Cui Jian--rarely mentioned in the Western press without his Homeric epithet, Godfather of Chinese Rock--whom authorities view as a crypto-dissident. Many of Cui's previous shows had been canceled. But this time organizers enlisted local and provincial authorities, including Lijiang's powerful tourism administration, as sponsors...
...pristine. Programme for Belize, a nonprofit group, has bought 260,000 acres of forest in northwestern Belize--about 4% of the country's total land area--that had been destined for logging. Half of the area is now a reserve, surrounded by a buffer zone in which forestry and tourism are permitted. Ecotourism covers some 60% of the reserve's management costs. Saba Marine Park in the Netherlands Antilles and Nepal's Chitwan National Park have similar programs...
...brainchild of Cui Jian?never mentioned in the Western press without his Homeric epithet, "Godfather of Chinese Rock"?whom authorities view as a crypto-dissident. Cui has had his share of shows canceled by authorities. But this time organizers have enlisted local and provincial authorities, including Lijiang's powerful tourism administration, as sponsors. Rock musicians performing outside the realm of state-sanctioned culture have reached a tacit accommodation with party officialdom...
...Mass tourism dates from the 1840s, when Thomas Cook began chartering trains to take Britain's working class at reduced fares to temperance meetings within the country. By the 1860s Cook was selling tours to continental Europe, and by the start of the 20th century even the grandest hotels on the newly named Côte d'Azur were doing deals with the English entrepreneur. A century later 2 million travelers - half from outside France - descend on the Riviera as August begins and hotels from Menton to Théoule proclaim they are complet (full). The history of Nice, affectionately...
...escaped the worst of the economic downturn hurting most of Western Europe, the deluge represents a sharp reversal of fortune. Thirteen people died in the floods and 215,000 were evacuated, while the damages may exceed $2 billion, with the country's infrastructure, manufacturing base and tourism industry taking the biggest hits. More than 30 bridges have collapsed, and chemical and paper plants along the Vltava and Elbe Rivers have ground to a halt. The country's GDP growth could slow this year by .3 to .5 percentage points as a result. A drop in tourism is something the Czech...