Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less tourist-oriented countries of Eastern Europe, both the inconvenience and the rewards are magnified. Good food and decent hotels may require some luck and homework to find. But to many, all the inconveniences of time and place seem a small price to pay for the chance to wander through Prague's heart-stopping streets on a quiet afternoon or linger in Budapest's Hungarian National Museum without being jostled by the crowds...
...fact, it is precisely because so much of the tourist industry slows down during the winter that so many travelers are attracted to the off-season. The low season is a blessed chance to eavesdrop on real life in a spirit of calm and privacy. Even the cities lose their summer affectations. "People get a better feel for Parisian life," says Nicole Roques-Lagier, press attache for the Paris Tourist Office. "They see people going about their daily business, much more so than in the summer, when the French themselves are on vacation." It is easier to get a table...
...Aruca said, Castro lowered theexorbitant tourist prices originally intended todiscourage Cuban-American visitors, but has sincelimited the number of visitors allowed from theU.S...
...headed for a fancy hotel, a vestige of the Raj. And I would largely miss this side of the Indian city. Like most tourists, I would see the tourist sites--the great caves at Elephanta, the Victorian railway station, Malabar Hills. Unavoidable as poverty and suffering are in India, I also did not seek them...
...defend particular terrorists, for example Abul Abbas Zaidan, who led the hijacking of the Italian ship on which the American tourist was killed...