Word: tourisme
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...population is still sparse-less than 700 in some 125,000 acres. But alert Big Sureans could discern the beginnings of encroachment: Carmel Highlands, just above Big Sur. has been blotched by free-for-all development, and San Luis Obispo to the south is a well-known eyesore. Tourism began to boom; in 1952 only 2,500 tourist cars passed through Big Sur on an average summer Sunday' in 1961 it was up to 6,000. and last year 8,863 cars were turned away at Pfeiffer-Big Sur State Park for lack of camping facilities...
Some Hawaiians fear that the exodus of Big Five capital bodes ill for Hawaii's continued growth. Hawaii's economy, which has recently lost some of its zip, rests precariously on four principal sources of income-sugar, pineapples, tourism, and military spending. Any decrease in agricultural income without offsetting increases in tourism and military spending, would be a serious blow and critics of the Big Five argue that by taking their know-how abroad, the companies may actually help foreign producers to cut into Hawaiian pineapple and sugar sales. In rebuttal, defenders of the Big Five insist that...
...economy may be sluggish, but not in Denver, where the influx of tourists and Titan missile contracts has helped to boost the value of new construction by 90% this year. The sun also shines on Hawaii, where tourism is up 19%. In Nevada, personal income is running 13% higher than last year's levels. The gaps in the New England economy, left by the wholesale departure of the textile industry, are being filled by electronics. Personal income in the area is up almost 7% from a year...
...Tourism is one of Spain's biggest assets...
...When the government proposed boosting the tax on the awnings of sidewalk cafés from 60∧ a square yard to $25, café owners threatened to strike, coffee lovers raised a howl, and the Confederation of Commerce and Tourism dispatched an official delegation to the Finance Minister, a Christian Democrat. Result: the tax on shade was raised to only...