Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Normally one of the gayest and most cheerful cities in Europe, Naples has been paralyzed by a cholera epidemic that killed 16 people in a month and hospitalized 822 more. As the epidemic itself waned, misfortune has overwhelmed the city. First the lucrative tourist trade dried up. Then the port was all but quarantined. Fishmongers who sold the sewage-contaminated mussels that spread the infection were virtually ostracized; their livelihood was ruined as police frogmen systematically uprooted the mussel beds. Afraid of contagion, Neapolitans, the most gregarious people in Italy, began to avoid one another, literally like the plague...
Officials of the Library Corporation must be horrified that the last president's own name is being used as a rallying point for local opposition to the Library. But last week for the first time, it was publicly recognized that those officials have considered excising the main tourist attraction--the museum--from the rest of the Library complex...
...Federal government doesn't seem especially worried about the Library itself, but rather about its "total impact" on the Cambridge area--that is, the tourist trade it is sure to spawn...
Some observers speculate that the number of tourists that the library will attract, coupled with rising land costs, will radically change the character of commercial life in the Square, replacing small shops and coffee houses with fast-food stores and tourist-related enterprises. Oliver Brooks, chairman of the Harvard Square Task Force, a group of local residents, said that local businessmen are uncertain about the effect the Library will have on business. "Some feel that it will increase business, while others think that the crowds, the pushing and the shoving may lower volume," Brooks explained...
...that their favorite couturiers are giving strange foreign customers first peek at the latest styles. At the art and antique auctions all over Europe, as many as half of the choicest items are being bought by people who never showed their faces a few years ago. As the American tourist surge is beginning to level off, Europeans are bringing out their stale stories about rich Texans for a new breed of foreigners-the Japanese...