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...after centuries ?of a lifestyle set in stone, the walls of Batad are crumbling. Teenage big-city dreams, low-yield rice crops, worm erosion and tourism have all taken a toll. Despite unesco World Heritage Site classification, many terraces are in poor repair and protection efforts have been ineffective. Tourist impact is predictable: Batad's handful of caf?s and restaurants feature pizzas, and villagers don traditional costumes and head-dresses for photographs...
...Ironically, the falls on the great Zambezi River, 600 km northwest of the capital Harare and one of Africa's great natural wonders, is also one of the last viable tourist venues in Zimbabwe, where the economy is collapsing by the day. Hotels, game camps and lodges throughout the country are cutting back or closing down. The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries estimates that business activity is less than a quarter what it was at independence from Britain in 1980. Three hundred companies that closed their doors for Christmas 2000 have not reopened. Says University of Zimbabwe economist Tony Hawkins...
...presidential libraries, not counting the still disputed Nixon papers, which are housed in a suburban Washington warehouse, and Clinton's planned facility. But the library is now just part of a former President's operation. Attached to the libraries are privately funded museums and foundations. These have become minor tourist attractions (presidential libraries combined get some 2 million visitors annually) and, in some cases, major employment programs for the ex-Presidents' pals. Because the presidency keeps getting bigger, so do the libraries. Gerald Ford's library has more documents than F.D.R.'s. No wonder Presidents leave office with...
...that they're predicting 7 million new customers will visit the park in its first year--despite a weakening economy. That's on top of the 14 million that Disneyland already gets. The goal is to make these visitors, many from overseas, feel like they've hit all the tourist high points of California without ever leaving Anaheim...
From Kenya's point of view, the children are one more threat to the multi-million-dollar-a-year tourist business, already reeling from political and ethnic instability and three years of drought. Driven by poverty and AIDS, which has alone orphaned some 900,000, Kenyan children continue to pour from rural villages into Nairobi, where street crime, according to Nairobi Central Business District Association chairman Philip Kisia, has increased in direct proportion to their numbers. Yet little has been done about them. Says Kariuki: "The government cannot deal with street kids and hopes the private sector--especially the tourism...