Word: touristic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Queen of Sheba. In this New Mexico-size nation, located on the cutting edge of the Arabian Peninsula, the dawn light- and-shadow show is a spectacular curtain raiser to a host of attractions + that have made it one of the world's newest and most unusual tourist destinations...
...Qaboos cautiously opened the doors of the sultanate to tourists -- but on a highly selective basis. "We don't want to see hippies with long hair and dirty jeans in any part of the sultanate," said Commerce Minister Salim bin Abdullah al-Ghazali. "We do not want tourism that will destroy our dignity, our habits, our traditions." The government designated local hotels and tour operators as sponsoring agents for tourists and held them responsible for their clients' behavior. To obtain a visa valid for up to three months, a hotel or travel agency must submit a tourist's application...
ESSAY: Turning Mount Sinai into a tourist trap...
...billboard on a road six miles north of Sinai's Monastery of St. Catherine says, "At this site will be 500 villas, a tourist village with 250 rooms, two hotels with 400 rooms, shopping center, school and hospital, supplied by all facilities." The "great and terrible wilderness" described by Deuteronomy is on its way to becoming a tourist trap...
Tourism officials like to point out that as bad as the crime wave is, it should not trouble foreign visitors if they avoid the worst neighborhoods. "The biggest problem with these reports is the false impression they leave," says Trajano Ribeiro, president of Rio's tourist agency. "When a report comes out saying 50 people were killed in a weekend, the image is that 50 people were gunned down on the beach...