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...Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund, also donated family photographs, original film posters, the best-actress Oscar that Hepburn won in 1953 for Roman Holiday, and other memorabilia. Opened in October 1996 and staffed by volunteers, the museum immediately began attracting thousands of visitors from around the world. Busloads of tourists snapping pictures of Hepburn's grave and home - which is now owned by another family - became as much a part of the sleepy village's picturesque landscape as centuries-old houses and farms. To date €258,000 - mostly from admission fees and the sale of souvenirs - has been donated...
...done with tape so it wouldn’t be destructive,” said Peggy Bainbridge, a tourist from Philadelphia, PA. “It was fun. That’s fine...
...legislation allowing Americans to travel to Cuba for the first time since the embargo began in 1962. Castro knows that if Cuba's 11 million people want more eggs (and meat, chicken and rice), gringo businessmen like Kelmer want a new market - as well as the cigars and other tourist delights that have been forbidden fruit for 40 years...
...Lawrence-inspired tourism renaissance. "The Lawrence myth has been rather underplayed in Jordan until now," he says. "We need more examples of people like him to broker stronger relations and mutual trust between East and West." But the harsh reality for the foot soldiers of Jordan's stalled tourist industry is that it will take more than the eulogized legacy of an eccentric British officer to bring visitors back. Especially if a U.S.-led military assault on Iraq goes ahead and opens what King Abdullah II has described as "the Pandora's box of the Middle East...
...from Bedouin families. They do not apply to join the Desert Police directly but train as part of the general police force. They are subsequently deployed where necessary, though their knowledge of the undulating dunes clearly stands them in good stead for a desert posting. They may be a tourist attraction in their own right these days but, despite the softly-softly image, the Desert Police are still very much upholders of Jordan's law of the sand...