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...TOURISM...
Percent increase, compared with 2006, in arrivals to the U.S. from Western Europe, through April. Tourism from that region was down 2.1% at the end of last year...
...Orleans' halting recovery; according to the local business weekly CityBusiness, the metropolitan area has lost 12 of the 23 publicly traded companies headquartered here, taking white-collar jobs, corporate community support and sorely needed taxpayers with them - and threatening to leave the city even more dependent on a tourism-based economy than it was before the storm...
...life, they are finding they already own the household items that the traditional registry was created for. At the same time, restless consumers are spending ever more money doing things vs. owning things. This has created a perfect market for experiential wedding gifts, and several entrepreneurial websites, including the tourism office of the government of Aruba, have successfully waded in over the past few years. According to thehoneymoon.com for example, only 392 people bought wedding presents on its site in 2001, but 20,000 did last year, and the company is on pace to double that...
...country's economy has grown (more than 10% last year, due in part to tourism and the textile industry). But wealth appears to be concentrated in the hands of the few. Earlier this month, the international watchdog organization Global Witness released the findings of a three-year investigation that accuses a network of Hun Sen's relatives and friends of having made tens of millions of dollars from illegal logging. (Several of those implicated by Global Witness have denied the allegations, and the watchdog's report itself has been banned from domestic distribution by the Cambodian government.) In the report...