Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pointedly suspicious of outsiders (roughly defined as anyone whose birth certificate is not on file at the local hospital), some Islanders suspected that Hollywood interlopers would wreck their tranquillity, ruin the tourist season and befoul their waters. Others pointed out that a film crew of 150 or so would pep up business considerably during a recession offseason. So the Islanders settled back to watch events with skepticism...
After three postwar decades of headlong tourist development, a number of states from Oregon to Maine have reappraised the actual near-and long-term value of tourism in ecological, social and economic terms. Using a kind of restaurant-rating system in reverse, the consulting firm of Arthur D. Little Inc., for example, conducted a study for the state of Maine. The study rated the social and environmental impact of various types of tourists by measuring them on a scale of minus one (for least damaging) to minus five for each of a dozen criteria, and comparing the total with...
...popular Eastern Shore not only spend four times as much as campers but also generate six times more jobs, seven times more income and over five times as much tax revenue for the area. Using these and similar studies, state and community planners hope to devise strategies for balanced tourist growth. Rather than employ scattershot advertising, such as Maine billboards with the inane slogan LOVER COME BACK TO ME, for example, many states could emphasize such qualities as clean air and uncrowded roads. They could also take the strain off overcrowded, ecologically fragile coastal resources by developing and promoting relatively...
City councilors last night also heard testimony about--but did not act on a motion of block off a section of Mass Ave around the kiosk in Harvard Square to make room for a permanent tourist information booth...
...policies towards the library. Faculty members and community residents have for a long time opposed construction of the Kennedy museum in Cambridge but endorsed the location of the archives here. President Bok, however, steadfastly refused to criticize (or for that matter say anything about) the desirability of the tourist-drawing museum, preferring instead to defer all criticism to the Kennedy Library Corp. If Bok had led a "surgical air strike" on the museum several years ago, before construction costs made splitting the museum from the archives financially impractical, he might have succeeded. By taking a stand, he could have fused...