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...thirds of its $5 billion in annual exports. From its northern neighbor, Mexico obtains 72% of its $6.4 billion in foreign capital investment and many of its consumer goods. From the north, too, come the tourists, 3.7 million of them, spending about $1 billion a year. Tourism is Mexico's biggest employer, but to many Mexicans, crowds of tourists with their cameras, sunglasses and bikinis are only another symbol of their own subservient status...
...armed rumrunner, who was played by Humphrey Bogart in the movie -are known as Conchs, after the crusty mollusks that abound off that southernmost Florida island. Like Morgan, they are given to drinking in seedy bars, fishing in the Gulf Stream and insulting tourists. Nowadays the tide of tourism is enough to make the Harry Morgans pull up anchor and put out to sea. The place known affectionately as "the Last Resort" is fashionable again...
Then, starting in 1974, development began and tourism took hold. Affluent Northerners, attracted by the 77° average temperatures and the quaintness of the island, with its Spanish and Bahamian roots, bought up and restored many of the Conch-style cottages and rambling homes in the Old Town section. Prices there tripled in three years. The shops along drowsy and all-but-derelict Duval Street were renovated and transformed; the old Kress dime store became Fast Buck Freddie's, a trendy shoppe. Five hundred new hotel and motel units were built, with 450 more plus a convention center...
Many people know about the problem, but we don't know why our government does not want Crimean Tarta in Crimea. Crimea is a place of tourism and hotels for the political elite and these people are not good for the government. They want these Tartars to live in Uzbekistan, far from the government...
Space is tight, and hoteliers are smiling because of the boom in business travel and conventions, which together bring well over half of the business. As a result, the squeeze is worst on working days. Tourism is also up because of the decline in airfares, and the devaluing of the dollar has lured many foreigners to U.S. hotels. A record 2 million people from abroad visited New York City last year, an increase of 8% over 1977. Says a manager at the chic Beverly Wilshire Hotel, where foreign guests have risen from 10% of the clientele ten years...