Word: tourisme
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...into this reverent hush, two Sabbaths ago, that 500 cheerful American and European Baptists drew up in 20 buses, having come, on tourism bent, through the Mandelbaum Gate from Jordanian Jerusalem. The Orthodox Jews of Mea She'arim were dumfounded with outrage-and none more than a lean, hawk-eyed man who has a fair claim to the title of the world's most orthodox Orthodox Jew. On occasion, he even shows up in sackcloth and ashes. He is Amram Blau, 63, leader of a fanatical Mea She'arim sect called the Neturei Karta (guardians...
Since 1961, moneymaking tourism from the West has increased 40% in Bulgaria, more than 200% in Hungary. With capitalistic resourcefulness, the Communists heavily advertise their attractions in the West. Hungary bought the motels of the 1958 Brussels world's fair and set them down in four tourist towns along Lake Balaton. Bulgaria has built 78 new seaside hotels in the past decade and Rumania about 50. Most of the new Black Sea resorts smack more of Miami than of Moscow, and often practice segregation-Westerners only. While Western tourists (mostly European) at first ventured East out of curiosity, they...
...them. A Hilton is a boon to the tourist business, since many Americans (who make up about 50% of all Hilton's guests) will go more readily to a city where they can find a modern hotel with a reassuringly familiar name. Egypt's take from tourism increased $12 million a year after Hilton moved in; Turkey gained $2.5 million in foreign exchange. A Hilton usually forces other hotels in the area to improve their standards (their celebrated old-fashioned personal service sometimes gets a little inattentive). In such cities as Istanbul, Cairo and Amsterdam, the Hilton...
...Though even a viewer himself might not be able to separate how much of his own feeling was curiosity and how much was appreciation, there was plainly plenty of tourism, celebrity-seeking, and status-hunting about the current crush to see the Mona Lisa. Half a million people ''passed in front of it," to use a gallery phrase, in the 3½ weeks in Washington, assuring the museum of a record attendance in 1963, giving thousands little more than a reason to say, "I saw it." There was a general atmosphere of keep-moving which interfered with tranquil...
Cried the scandalized Huntington Herald-Advertiser: "Tourism may have been dealt a body blow." Sidestepped Governor William W. Barron: "I'd better let the experts comment on it." Commented Expert Sweeney: "I picked what I liked best." Philosophized Painter-Carpenter Moss: "It isn't anything intended to be uncomplimentary. It looks complimentary, maybe...