Word: tourisme
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...fort will have to be a labor of tourism as well as historical piety, of course. Since the Bicentennial, Americans have become great refurbishers of the past, though often in a merely Disney way. They want the past to speak to them; but, especially in the '60s and '70s, it occurred to many to wonder whether the past was telling them the truth. John Wayne repeatedly re-enacted one version of the Fort Concho mythology, but the claims of other perspectives have been rising. Wayne Daniel, 38, Fort Concho's librarian and archivist, speaks wistfully about including...
Many Florida-based yachtsmen accuse Bahamian authorities of being reluctant to act against the smugglers for fear of jeopardizing tourism. This is denied by Bahamian officials, who insist that the islands remain a peaceful playground for yachtsmen. Still, warns Skip Nichols, "If you're not careful, you can get run over by those high-powered drug boats...
...urge to get away from it all grips everyone now and then, and the jet airliner has made most of the world accessible. Or has it? Author Paul Fussell, 56, thinks not: "I am assuming that travel is now impossible and that tourism is all we have left." The statement seems, at first, absurd: more people are going more places than ever before. But Fussell argues convincingly that there are too many of them, and that no one is doing it the right way: "Perhaps the closest one could approach an experience of travel in the old sense today would...
Without the growth in foreign visitors, the U.S.'s $140 billion travel and tourism industry would be in worse shape than it already is. As unemployment has ticked upward and inflation has put a tighter and tighter squeeze on family budgets, more and more Americans have either been staying home or going on cheaper vacations. Though even a week at the seashore now seems expensive to many Americans, Europeans are eager to take advantage of what appear to them to be fire-sale prices. While persistent high inflation is a relatively recent problem for the U.S., a number...
...diplomatic sources put the actual number closer to 150,000. Only 3,000 of the 18,500 Americans expected before the boycott are coming, and some of those only because they would not be able to get a full refund on their trips. The fall-off in tourism could cost the Soviets as much as $150 million in hard currency, according to one Western projection...