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...door? A growing number of U.S. hoteliers, including Days Inn and Choice Hotels International, owner of Comfort Inn, as well as U.S. investment banks have spotted an opening in the form of joint ventures with foreign companies. They are tiptoeing through it to secure a foothold in a Cuban tourism industry that continues to grow without an American presence...
...discos and even golf. There are also a surprising number of Americans, whom Cuban officials wave in through Mexico or Jamaica--no need to get your passport stamped. Even after years of steady growth, the number of vacationers continues to increase 15% annually, the fastest pace in the Caribbean. Tourism has replaced sugar as Cuba's main source of hard currency. That is one reason tourist hotels were the targets of the antigovernment bombings, which caused moderate damage and three injuries...
...Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies, a $20 billion travel firm that owns Radisson Hotels...
...public works and the police, have been taken away from Barry and placed under the jurisdiction of a financial control board, which was appointed by Congress two years ago to get the city's finances in order and is headed by economist Andrew Brimmer. Only relatively minor agencies (including tourism and parks and recreation) remain under Barry's purview. Asked at a press conference what residents should do if they want to complain about potholes, Barry replied bitterly, "Call Dr. Brimmer...
...Ranching is worth preserving not because it's a quaint 19th century agricultural practice," says Lohr, "but because cows are better than condos. Ranchland is crucial wildlife habitat, and tourism depends on pristine views. Bill and I agreed that ranchers deserve to be compensated for the open space they provide...