Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed since it built an office building. Every time I return to Atlanta these days, an entire new neighborhood has been forested with high-rises. Twenty years ago, the Hyatt Regency, the prototype for the new boffo-lobby hotels that were in fashion for a while, was a tourist * attraction, drawing sightseers to look at its 23-story atrium and its glass elevators that went, as they said at the time, "clean through the roof" to a revolving restaurant in a giant blue dome. The Hyatt Regency became the symbol of the city, in the tradition of New York...
...sample the rich history of Jerusalem, the flashing, clear waters of Eilat, the archaeological drama of Masada. Bracing for a flood of guests, Hyatt International unveiled a $60 million, 500-room hotel in Jerusalem. Airlines scheduled extra flights, and car-rental agencies planned to plump up their fleets. Israeli tourist officials, anticipating 1.5 million visitors and record revenues of more than $2 billion, launched an ad campaign saying "You've thought about it long enough . . . Come visit us in Israel...
Carrasco gives his charges plenty of incentives, including cash bonuses of $25 to the Corps Member of the Month and $15 for outstanding arts-and-crafts work. He encourages esprit-building projects: the trainees are refurbishing several old trolley cars to be operated as tourist attractions in El Paso. Alumni success stories serve as sources of inspiration. After being hired as a switchboard operator, a young woman wrote the center saying "This check will make me the first in my family not to be eligible for food stamps...
Last year 287 million visitors tramped, trekked, drove, wandered or flew through America's 341 national parks. The tourist population has nearly doubled since 1971, and could jump to 500 million by the year 2010. Current facilities cannot handle the crush. Use has also brought abuse: people may visit the parks to get away from it all, but they bring civilization's discontents with them. Popular parks spend more than half their budgets on chores like garbage patrols and bathroom maintenance...
...impresario behind last week's inaugural flight, James Stimpfle, has more than glasnost on his mind. The Nome real estate broker hopes to make Siberia a major tourist attraction, with regularly scheduled air shuttles and even a cruise ship. But Provideniya in the Soviet Far East has drawbacks: it has no hotel and only one restaurant. Cement mixing and reindeer-hide tanning are its major enterprises. The architecture runs to concrete boxes. Then there is the climate: only Eskimos may consider 30 degrees F in June balmy...