Word: touristed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...town that didn't was Navarre Beach, Florida, a tourist village of about 3,000, 20 miles east of Pensacola. Where once pristine 25-ft. dunes rose, there is now a featureless expanse of sand that has swallowed up living rooms, swimming pools, roads and tractor trailers. Seventy-five percent of Navarre Beach's homes were destroyed, swamped by the 15-ft. tidal surge or crushed by the battering of 30-ft. waves. Some structures were reduced to piles of indistinguishable rubble; others simply disappeared, leaving only stubby supports to show where a house once stood. Several homes were lifted...
...This is a big tourist attraction, and I don't think that that's a bad thing," he said. "Having the little artistic booths and whatnot gives a sort of classy image to the whole place...
Perhaps nobody will be happier about the wane of the English tourist season than Prince William. The heir to the British throne just began his first year at Eton, long a side attraction to Windsor Castle. But now, according to British papers, double-decker bus tours slow when they pass the school and local entrepreneurs sell T shirts reading where there's a will...
...large reason for its tourist appeal," he said. "Once it's gone, it will be tough to recapture...
...class permanent facility. Armed with that commitment and one from the Women's International Bowling Congress, Reno persuaded the Nevada legislature to raise the hotel-room tax by a point and dedicate the proceeds to the project. The stadium's real goal is to promote the city and draw tourist dollars to its hotels, casinos and other facilities. "It's a self-perpetuating deal," Pearson says. "The more bowlers I bring in, the more tax is paid, the faster I get the place paid off, the more I can put back into tournaments...