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...Luckily for the tourism industry [January and February is] not a prime booking time. The war had little effect," says Meehan. The height of the tourist booking season, he says, doesn't arrive until April...
Winter month travelers rarely fill have been more sparse than at any other time in recent history. But now that international tensions and hostilities in the Persian Gulf have died down, tourism officials say that Massachusetts residents will soon resume their searches for exotic cultures and warmer suns, resume their searches for exotic cultures and warmer suns...
...chicken tastes familiar, the reason is that Arkansas is home to the largest poultry farms in the country; Don Tyson even lives there and sells Harvard its Chickwiches. Arkansans are very proud of this. I once asked a woman at the state Bureau of Tourism what food is the state's specialty. "We get a lot of chickens here, I guess," she said. Arkansan food is actually a mixture of the three cultures which fight for attention in the state: Tex-Mex, Southern and Cajun. (Contrary to what New Englanders believe, Arkansas is not in the Midwest...
Travel cutbacks are hitting hotels and restaurants in Washington, Tokyo, Paris and other capitals as well. In Cairo the Egyptian government shut down the Pyramids and other monuments -- and thus most of the tourism industry -- to protect against terrorist threats. "It's a disaster. Because of the war, we are at a standstill," said Elhamy El Zayat, owner of one of Egypt's largest travel agencies. In Anaheim, Calif., Disneyland cut ticket prices for the first time ever, reducing one-day rates temporarily to $20 from $27 for people who live in Southern California. At a time when people...
...court. In demonstrating leniency, the court was clearly influenced by international pressure to improve Beijing's record on human rights, which was blighted by the massacre of protesters. Though many countries have rebuilt shattered ties with China, the country still suffers from a sharp drop in foreign investments and tourism...