Word: tourisme
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...With the Gross National Product at $8.8 billion and the economy growing at 6-7% a year, unemployment stands at a manageable 2%. Eastern Europe accounts for barely one-sixth of its trade, Western Europe close to two-thirds. The ratio is even more lopsided when it comes to tourism. Of 1,300,000 visitors last year, the overwhelming majority came from Sweden, West Germany, Norway, the U.S. and Britain, in that order. To lure even more Westerners, the Finns have even been selling Kaamos Aika package deals to honeymoon couples. Kaamos Aika is the winter-long period of perpetual...
...with a series of plans aimed at alleviating the island's problems and ending its near-total dependence on sugar. He hopes to make the entire island a Hong Kong-style free zone, and to lure foreign capital with tax concessions and tax holidays. Duval hopes to develop tourism-and lovely, mountainous Mauritius, lined with coral reefs and frequently framed by giant rainbows, has much to offer...
...golden age of tourism and business travel has drawn the world's innkeepers into a building spree. Led by aggressive U.S. chains, hotel expansion is honing competition in dozens of countries, and the travel boom is transforming entire economies. The construction splurge is aimed not only at American travelers, who are booking foreign tours in rising numbers despite the domestic economic slowdown, but also at travel-hungry Asians and Europeans...
...single hotel room will be available in Paris until after October's auto show. London hotels are so packed that companies in need of space for executives cozy up to room clerks by treating them to elaborate lunches. Greek hotelmen are braced for a 30% increase in tourism this summer. The lure of Expo 70 has not only jammed Japanese hostelries, but contributed to a squeeze in Singapore, 3,000 miles away...
Pressures arising mainly from increasing world attention to the Palestinian cause has forced the Israeli government to justify its position. Moshe Kol, Minister of Tourism and member of the Cabinet, spoke to our group of American student journalists and was forced to deal with the question...