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...square's Bourbon Street restaurant boasts an award-winning cajun-creole menu raved about by the U.S. consular corps?but everything else in the area is for the serious boozer or bold, cultural tourist. At the square's straining heart nestles the Texas Lone Staar (sic) Saloon, a favored hangout of grizzled Vietnam vets and supposed former CIA spooks. The bar's tag line, FOOD, WIMMIN, LIKKER, is painted across its windows, though the emphasis is almost exclusively on the latter...
...Following a summer spent entirely at home, and then a hectic school year, my time so far as a student, tourist and one-woman show in Egypt has been one of the most amazing and rewarding experiences of my life. Along with the laughter, there have been painful reminders of economic discrepancies—incomplete, rundown houses with state-of-the-art satellite dishes trumpeting their poverty—and moments of utter discomfort (other than sunburns and mosquito bites) when we encounter local hostility...
...unprecedented move follows months of reported government abuse and widespread popular dissent against Gayoom's regime in the wake of riots in Mal? last September. Local human-rights groups have threatened a campaign to discourage travel to the Maldives, which depends on tourist dollars for 20% of its gross domestic product. "The whole thing was a real eye opener for Gayoom," says one Western analyst, who speculates that the President feared his legacy of transforming these poverty-stricken islands into a world-class holiday destination was under threat...
...encroaching vehicles, and the audience cringes. Ultimately, her productions always come back to big questions about love, loneliness and the search for intimacy. Yet they also manage to be funny, even bawdy. In Nefes, at the hamam (Turkish bath), a matronly masseuse rips the towel off an unsuspecting tourist. "That really happened to one of the dancers," says Bausch, smiling. "She didn't know the procedure." Nefes offers a uniquely Bauschian take on Istanbul that, like its title, comes as a breath of fresh air in troubled times. "I can't claim to explain Istanbul," says Bausch...
...years we did have 12 months of the year of tourist trade—buses lined up—and they’d start buying,” he said. “I think the U.S. [today] is not a particularly pleasant place for Europeans, South Americans, Asians to come to. We’ve managed to alienate a lot of the world...