Word: tourisme
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...each island, there always seems to be still another island beyond the horizon. But islands are not the only areas to exert a strange drawing power. In tourism as in geopolitics, the great land masses have a vast strategic pull. If there is a mystique of the island, there is also a mystique of the continent. While some travelers are magnetically attracted by the Demote speck on the map and by the isolation of surrounding ocean, others are drawn by the large, solid patches and the isolation of the landlocked interior. To them, Africa is perhaps the most challenging tourist...
...have done a salutary examination of one of the main reasons why thousands of Europeans manage to resist the attractions of tourism in America. I hope your article may help tourists from other countries to receive the same facilities of pleasant and visaless travel that are enjoyed abroad by American citizens...
...world. They flowed to such countries as West Germany and Great Britain as interest rates eased in the U.S. But the overall and continuing deficit in the balance of payments has a broader cause: the fact that the U.S. is spending more abroad on defense, economic aid, military assistance, tourism and private investments than it earns from its foreign trade, thus piling up foreign claims against the U.S. gold supply...
...last word came from the Russians. Moscow asked the State Department to kindly use its influence to see that in the future tourism is kept separate and apart from intelligence activities...
...since Stalin's time. Day after day the Soviet press hammered away at the insidiousness of foreign influences ("I began to have unhealthy thoughts as a result of my enthusiasm for jazz"), reported with horror fresh cases of foreign visitors "caught" spying "under cover of the mask of tourism." After years of pleas for greater cultural exchange with the West, the Kremlin now seemed alarmed over the impact that this summer's 15,000 U.S. and British tourists might be having on the mind of Soviet...