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...Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder As much fun as Athens can be, you won't want to leave Greece without looking in on some of its beautiful islands. But you don't have to jostle with the crowds on Mykonos, Santorini, Crete and all those other tourist magnets. Here are three lesser-known getaways: AGISTRI Once a haven for Albanian refugees fleeing Serbian expansion in the 14th century, this tiny island won fame in the 1980s when its lovely pebbled beach, Halikiada, became a favorite haunt for nudists. Today even the most buttoned-down visitors get hooked...
...here estimates that 90 percent of the population lives below the government poverty line. And that figure would be much higher if it wasn’t for the fact that remittances sent from Lebanese abroad make up 24 percent of Lebanon’s GDP. In a dumb tourist move, I was complaining to a group of Lebanese friends about the measly $600 a month I get paid at the paper where I work, only to find out that that was more than what many of their fathers made...
...Since then, the Perth International Arts Festival estimates that more than 4,480 visitors have got to know the people on the lake. At the service station, proprietor Christine proudly shows a photo of her sculpture sent to her by an American tourist - "he said it was so nice to have a connection," she says. At lakeside, a Scottish traveler is illegally setting up camp for the night. "I don't know whether the statues are intrinsically meritorious," he says, "but I like the idea of creating them and installing them in such an out-of-the-way spot." Earlier...
...asked itself that question countless times since gold ran out nearly a hundred years ago. While making the town's existential crisis stunningly clear, the sculptures also offer an answer. In a place where employment opportunities are, as Finlayson puts it, "zilch," Gormley's Inside Australia is a potential tourist goldmine. Shire plans are already underway for a $A175,000 development of the site, making the sculptures more secure, and improving visitor facilities. Meanwhile on a billboard in Perth, a Kalgoorlie promotion features one of the sculptures, with the words: do you want a close encounter? Perhaps even more crucial...
...Tourists are on the move again--and the beleaguered travel industry is breathing a sigh of relief. According to a report by the International Air Traffic Association (IATA) released last month, global air-traffic levels in the first five months of this year have been 8.8% above those of 2000, the last normal year for the industry (before SARS and terrorism struck). The Madrid-based World Tourism Organization (WTO), a United Nations agency, echoes the good news. It expects tourism to grow 5% in 2004. The WTO reports that France is the most popular tourist destination this year. Asia...