Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...later drive up to an Amish farm, and MacAllister asks me to leave my camera in the car. He dislikes the way the Amish--his boyhood neighbors--have been turned into a tourist attraction. "The joy is to walk up to them in your blue jeans and talk to them like ordinary folks," he says...
...pleased with these tactics, the Rwandan government wanted to displace Fossey and market her research center as a tourist attraction. She dug in. To a journalist planning a visit in 1985 she wrote, "If push comes to shove, I am prepared to fight for my claim." Two days after Christmas, Fossey was hacked to death in her bed. Suspects ranged from vengeful poachers to an American researcher who had proclaimed his innocence and fled the country before a Rwandan court found him guilty in absentia. The judgment is questionable. Harold Hayes does not offer conclusive evidence about who committed...
...tourist will be gone the day after tomorrow. But many of the people you see in the Square will seem as permanent a part of it as the University itself...
More troubling is the fact that the region's capital cities are desperately short of hotel space. Every night this summer, Warsaw will need 3,000 more beds than are available. Prague, which has 6,000 tourist-class beds, needs to double its capacity if it is to begin to cope with demand. It is as bad, if not worse, in Budapest. "We just can't keep up with the boom," says Gyorgy Szekely, vice president of Ibusz, the state-run travel company. "We need more of everything." Given the accommodations shortage, the best advice for tourists...
Apart from the well-trod tourist trail around the bloc, which leads to such places as the Ghetto Memorial in Warsaw, the Old Town Square in Prague and the neo-Gothic parliament building on the banks of the Danube in Budapest, the cities have some surprising things to offer. Even the region's grim industrial agglomerations are worth seeing, if only to judge for yourself how badly communism failed...