Word: tourisme
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...Kentucky Derby--with its money, liquor, fast horses and steamy depravity--may get you to check out the state in the first place, but there will be a lot more to make you come back. As the state tourism board jingle goes, "Oh, Kentucky--you'll come to love it"--and there's no better time to come than on that sunny May morning when 80 hooves scatter mud across Churchill Downs.A year-round influx of heavy-duty horse-fanatic millionaires has created a unique character in central Kentucky. Mercedes sedans park next to Chevy trucks; Red Man-chewing...
...closer to Cambridge than Aspen or Ft. Lauderdale, but for most people it might well be on the other side of the world. Few people know that the island lies just off South Carolina. Most of the natives would like it to stay that way. Package tourism may be growing steadily as a key industry on the island, but the social climate there stubbornly clings to its Nantucket and Palm Springs roots...
...There is no question that it has contributed to it. People out of work and hungry will always cause this kind of thing to occur. The problem is what can be done to create security and protection for their citizens and for their visitors, since tourism is such an important industry here...
...bright spot has been the revival of tourism, which declined dramatically during the 1970s because of political violence and anti-U.S. rhetoric. Under Seaga, it has bounced back and is now worth an estimated $435 million. Most of the 12,000 tourists on the island were unaffected by the demonstrations, except for the postponement of a few homeward flights for 24 hours. Indeed, the protests barely reached the north coast resort area. And even though many flights from the U.S. into Kingston were canceled for two days, planes continued to land 85 miles to the northwest at Montego...
...change happen," says Dealers Association President Michael S. Barnum. "We were tired of the 25 years of hypocrisy. Besides, the only dealers who would be hurt are those who are selling illegally to private clubs." Barnum says he buys the argument that allowing saloons will increase tourism, which would benefiter package store owners and would provide a general shot in the arm for a state looking for business to replace shrinking gas and oil production...