Word: tourisme
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...cutter christened, in homage to Edouard Manet's infamous nude, the Olympia. (His first and much smaller boat he named, to show his artistic affiliations, the Manet-Zola-Wagner, a heavy cargo for a mere day sailer to carry.) He "discovered" St.-Tropez long before tourism did, and built there a big rambling house, La Hune, which was his base and which still, happily, belongs to his descendants...
...potted plants. Worried that foreigners may get the wrong idea, the government recently ordered the hotels to abide by some decency rules: they must eschew such suggestive props as water beds, mirrors on the ceiling and porno posters. Hwang Seong Un, deputy director at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, says that "the only difference is these motels have no lobby." He apparently hasn't noticed the red lights (they are everywhere), the video shelves on every floor offering titles like Sex Toy and Shining Lust, and the heavy pink curtains on the windows, drawn 24 hours...
Like airlines, the travel industry has been devastated by the terror threat. Worldwide, reservations for flights and hotels have declined at least 12%. New statistics from the World Tourism Organization show how bad things are for many holiday hot spots...
...Many travelers are simply staying within their own domestic borders. An English Tourism Council survey says that 1 million people in the U.K. intend to take a holiday in Britain. On the Continent, holiday makers are planning to travel shorter distances...
...rotate and allow a safe, controlled descent. The other thing that makes the gyroplane different from a helicopter is the bottom line: running costs (about $160 per hr.) are almost halved. The gyroplane is in the final stages of FAA testing, and a 13-dealer network is busy targeting tourism and agriculture markets. It might also do service on the homeland-security beat: CEO David Groen says the craft would be ideal for border, pipeline and nuclear-facility surveillance...