Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman who works upstairs in the more civilized--and expensive--regular part of Filense's says she has been shopping there for 23 years, ever since immigrated to America. First introduced to Filene's by her classmates at Boston University she recalls, "Students would hit it like a tourist attraction...
...surplus is being used to flog the tourist industry generated by the bonanza of Olympic publicity and the banishment of Princip's ghost. Sarajevo has devoted a $2 million fund solely to cementing the Olympic image by staging additional world-class sporting events--world speed-skating championships, European bobsled championships and the like--in hopes of attracting the fans and tourists who follow them. So far, the strategy is working. With round-trip air fare from New York and seven days in a hotel at the foot of Olympic ski runs costing just $680, the tourists are coming...
...want to ski the down hill course where Bill Johnson won the gold medal," states Philadelphian John O'Neil. Though he cannot understand the words, Rizo Uzicanin recognizes the glint in the American's eye and beams at him from his stall in the old Turkish market. Such tourist fantasies are warmer to Uzicanin than the handcrafted woolens hanging from his shop front. "I've been on this corner 64 years," he says, "since I was a boy of seven with my father. We have never seen the prosperity that we have here since the Olympics...
Like the South in general, Kentucky has found that its climate, location, natural beauty, and amorphous "charm" can work to its financial advantage. The best outdoor tourist areas--the western lakes, Daniel Boone National Forest in the foothills of the Appalachians, and the rolling hill and forest land in between--are perfectly complemented by the only two urban centers, Louisville and Lexington...
Into coming and hiking? Forget tourist-clotted Rocky Mountain Park. Instead, head south on Route 135 out of skitown Crested Buite. Go left at Almont, past Taylor Park Reservoir. At the lake, go right. A bumpy seven-mile dirt road brings you through a glade into Tin Cup. Yes, that is its name. A half-doezen log cabins nestle at the Western foot of the Sawatch Range. There's an ice-cold brook to drink from, and miles of meadows and mountain trails to explore...