Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reopened. Egypt has begun a new tourism campaign, and wants to attract Americans. The government has even dropped hints that it is considering the resumption of diplomatic relations with Washington, which were broken when the Six-Day War began. That may take some time, but one American tourist who may be arriving soon is Secretary of State William P. Rogers. He is eager to visit Cairo, and Sadat has reacted cordially...
This knowledge, many scientists working in East Africa feel, may be the last hope for African wildlife. It can be used, first, to convince local governments that, if properly exploited, wildlife can earn their keep-and even turn a profit. Indeed, as a tourist attraction, game preserves already generate $50 million annually in Kenya. Since tourism is Kenya's second largest money earner (after agriculture), park land there is worth nearly as much per acre as the finest agricultural land...
...south of the heights is still Israel's most vulnerable. For that reason, the government has established there a necklace of nahals. fortified camps manned by young Israelis who are equally able to farm or to fight. But where the Dead Sea provides natural protection, Israel is developing tourist attractions. In the vicinity of Masada, the legendary fortress of ancient Hebrew history, there are now three hotels with 228 rooms as well as two guest houses and three youth hostels. Another hotel, the Pan American Dead Sea (no kin to the airline), will be finished in 30 months...
...Sharm el Sheikh the beginnings of another tourist mecca are already in place. For $14 a night one can get an air-conditioned room in an 80-bed motel, watch movies and go scuba diving. Already along another road to Sharm el Sheikh through the Mitla Pass, holidaymakers from Tel Aviv can take a five-day "See the Sinai Battlefields" tour for $98.60. Egged, Israels' biggest bus line, is now planning a 300-bed motel in Sinai at a cost of $500,000. "Why not?" asks an Egged spokesman. "The government has agreed to a 49-year lease...
...airlines had their worst year ever because of soaring operating costs, meager traffic growth and huge outlays for jumbo jets. A sensitive indicator of the U.S. economy, airline traffic goes into a dive whenever business in general weakens. This year companies reduced business travel, presidents moved back to the tourist-class cabin, and families postponed faraway vacation trips. The nation's twelve major airlines expect to lose as much as $125 million before taxes in 1970; Trans World Airlines alone will show a deficit of up to $65 million. The industry predicts even bigger losses...