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...Heady projections about the future of China's travel industry also help to explain this frenzy of hotel building. Already the world's fourth most popular tourist destination, the country is expected to move into second position within a decade, according to the World Tourism Association. By 2020, China is forecast to overtake the U.S. as the world's most-visited country, pulling in some 130 million visitors a year. China's burgeoning domestic-tourism market is also critical in the bullish calculations of hotel companies. By 2010, the number of domestic tourists is forecast to soar from 1.2 billion...
Like thousands of other Europeans from chillier climes, Ray and Anne Harvey have seen their relationship with Spain ripen since they first came to visit in 1975. "Back then we did the full tourist thing, including a day trip to Morocco; we caught food poisoning and went home laden with straw donkeys, enormous sombreros and a couple of Moroccan vases," says Ray, 61. "I blush now when I think what we must have looked like." But they liked it, and they kept coming back. In the late 1980s they bought a holiday apartment for around...
...place to live. Allston’s current personality may be a little gritty, but it’s a community nonetheless. After the expansion, Allston’s residents may be able to walk through a beautiful campus, but they’ll be competing for space with tourists and students. They may be able to window-shop at shiny new storefronts, but those very same storefronts will have marginalized their homes, inexorably pushing them away from the center of town. As Allston slowly improves economically and physically, it will, in a more intangible sense, become a Harvard annex...
...always been hyper-aware of the fact that I go to Harvard while rushing through the Yard. In the Square, on the streets, I’m anonymous, perhaps a passerby or tourist, but inside the gates, that all changes. I am a Harvard student. Moving past tour groups ogling outside of Widener, I sometimes can’t help but step out of my student role for just a minute and think about things from the outside. It’s tough to remember, in the thick of classes and activities and awkward social encounters, the esteem with which...
...owners of badly damaged homes so they can quickly get back on their feet, without waiting months for a grand?and cumbersome?reconstruction plan of the sort devised for Aceh after the 2004 tsunami. In some areas life is already returning to normal. Malioboro, Yogyakarta's main tourist drag, is open for business again. "Visitors are slowly returning, but they are mostly local," says Suhartono, a batik vendor. "We hope it won't be like Bali [after the bombings], with foreigners afraid to come...