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Orlando's destiny was sealed on Disney Day, Oct. 1, 1971, when Disney World opened wide its gates. Since then, the swamp, once called Mosquito County, has become the top commercial tourist destination in the world. Currently it draws 13.3 million people a year, up from 4.6 million in 1980. As a shrine, it is surpassed only by Kyoto, Mecca and the Vatican. The 2,558-sq.-mi. metro area has the largest concentration of hotel rooms in the country (76,300), with the highest occupancy rate (79%). More than 18 million passengers arrive at Orlando International Airport every year...
...festival commemorates an eccentric English nobleman who went there for the fishing, died in 1926 on his yacht in Belize harbor and left a part of his fortune to the colony -- a grateful sportsman if ever there was one. But in its obscurity, Belize gets only 1% of the tourist traffic to Central America, although word about it has begun...
...general, avoid any other activities listed on the printed schedule that the admissions office sent you. Predictably, the most interesting things to see and do here have been left off it. Herewith, a few items on my unofficial list of Harvard tourist sites...
...rebels and terrified civilians commandeered Toyotas, donkey carts, bicycles and buses to flee the battle zone and the retribution of Iraqi troops. Columns of people and vehicles, sometimes 50 miles long, snaked into the hills. Families packed themselves into the scoops of bulldozers. Tractors dragged trailers overloaded with passengers. Tourist buses wheezed desperately up the mountain roads. Near the Turkish border, a tall, eagle-faced man strapped 14 members of his family -- including seven children, his wife and his grandmother -- and innumerable pots, kettles, basins and chicken coops to a huge John Deere tractor. As he helped extract...
Some cities have started looking for their tourist dollars closer to home. "The Persian Gulf war gave rise to a resurgence of patriotism in the U.S. that in the long run may translate to more people staying Stateside for their vacations this year," says Merrett Stierheim, president of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. In mid-March his bureau unveiled the first in a series of advertisements for a $2 million year-long campaign designed to show off the city's colorful Caribbean culture. In one spot, hometown singer Gloria Estefan coos to her parrot, "We just love coming...