Word: tourisme
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...wide world of socially responsible travel, one of the cardinal rules has long been "Take only pictures, leave only footprints." After reading academic Rosaleen Duffy's critical analysis of the impacts of "ethical," nature-based tourism, A Trip Too Far - Ecotourism, Politics & Exploitation (Earthscan; 210 pages), altruistic souls may feel they have little choice but to do their exploring the old-fashioned way - in a comfortable chair with a stack of books. Duffy, a lecturer at Britain's Lancaster University, pulls no punches in her critique of the political nature of "green" tourism. It is, she argues, a fundamentally capitalistic...
...land is now protected in an extensive system of national parks and preserves, and there are plans afoot to increase that to 30 percent. The wildlife is justifiably famous, the countryside fairly pristine, the native cultures strong and varied, especially in the mountainous and heterogenous western provinces. Tourism, of the adventurous and hardy type is not insubstantial and the Mongolians are eyeing it as a potential major source of revenue. A few improvements have even been made to try to encourage this industry, and a main international airport just outside the capital has finally entered the modern age. Mining...
That night on the train in Sukhbaatar I wondered if such concepts as eco-tourism and international development aid seemed distant for Mongolians. The experience of Mongolians has a way of showing that life is more complex than such theories, though life usually centers on very basic and ordinary needs. Even, or especially, in Mongolia...
...working in the area in the early 1960s, when bar owners near the base were granted government approval to form the Tongduchon Special Tourism Industry Association. That gave them the right to buy and sell alcohol tax free to U.S. soldiers and other foreigners. At a time when Korea was still dirt-poor, this was a vital source of foreign exchange?and a way to keep G.I.s from troubling Korean women not involved in the sex industry. Until the early 1990s, the women working downrange were almost all Korean. But in the mid-'90s, with the economy booming, Korean...
...supervision of the camptown bar owners association is the responsibility of the Culture and Tourism Ministry. But Choi Byung Goo, a ministry director, says he does not know if there is any prostitution in the camptowns. "The bars are tourist restaurants for foreigners," he says. "There is no way we can know how they operate their businesses." If he had gone to Tongduchon last week, he might have heard about the four Filipinas who say they escaped from one of the clubs, where they were forced to dance naked and got a day off only if they sold an impossibly...