Word: tourisme
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...year-rounders, the winter means isolation, bad weather and hardship. The small towns that line the Outer Cape--Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truvo and Provincetown--depend economically almost exclusively on tourism. The creation of the National Seashore in 1961 insured the tourist trade during the summer by protecting the beaches and ponds of the Cape, but after Thanksgiving, few visitors are attracted; the motels, shops and restaurants close, and unemployment soars. In the winter, food stamps become a common sight in Wellfleet's First National supermarket and the number of welfare recipients and those on unemployment climbs...
Though Harvard's invitation comes from the Egyptian Rowing Federation, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism foots most of the bill. Crew members pay only their airfare to London. Part of a larger Nile festival, the actual racing will occupy a small part of the eight days the crew will spend in Egypt. Most of the time will be spent touring the country...
Unless Mozambique is willing to accept a marked decline in living standards, it needs the $300 million that South Africa annually pours into its economy through export transits, tourism and remittances from the 100,000 Mozambique workers who make up roughly 25% of South Af rica's mining force. South Africa has also signed a ten-year contract to buy power from Mozambique's $400 million Cabora Bassa Dam, which begins operations later this month...
...official, "are all that stand between us having our backs to the wall if there is another oil embargo." Similarly, the Governors and legislators of coastal states are opposing any increase in expanding federal leases on offshore oil deposits; they fear the effect of fouled beaches and waters on tourism and recreation. It is thus becoming increasingly evident that environmentalism has become institutionalized, almost as American as apple pie, and that-short of real disaster-the nation's environmental laws seem to be here to stay...
...information. I think everyone concerned with the future of the Cambridge community should know (1) whether the library/museum will or will not be built in Cambridge and what stage the negotiations are at; (2) what citizens can do to prevent the building of the library/museum and the onslaught of tourism it will bring. Political and monetary power can commit quiet outrages unless the public is informed and can act to defend its own interests. S.M. Smith