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...trout are dead, the fishing is finished, and the tourist industry is suffering. A Southern Pacific tanker car derailed last week on a tricky canyon bridge six miles north of Dunsmuir, Calif., and spilled its contents into the river: 19,500 gal. of metam sodium, a liquid herbicide...
...arrival of thousands of refugees from Castro's Cuba during the 1960s. Many of the newcomers benefited from U.S. government programs that provided $1 billion worth of refugee-assistance payments and small-business loans. Even worse, the immigrants soon began taking most of the menial jobs in the tourist-hotel industry, the city's largest source of employment...
...create wear and tear on the cathedral floor but, with that many people simply breathing, even raise the humidity to damaging levels. "I've actually seen rivulets of condensation running down the stained- glass windows," says Christian Dupavillon, director of patrimony for the French Ministry of Culture. Even the tourist industry is alarmed. "Will we have to create a Notre Dame II similar to the replica they were forced to build at Lascaux?" asked the trade daily Le Quotidien de Tourisme in an editorial...
...times past, putting up with litter, noxious fumes and bad manners seemed an acceptable price to pay for the revenue tourism brought in and the jobs it created. A big business it is too. In Britain the tourist industry contributed $39 billion to the economy last year. Italy took in $21 billion. France, the world's second most favored destination after the U.S., collected $17.7 billion from tourism, more than it earned from agriculture or arms. For poorer countries like Greece, tourism is the main source of foreign exchange, so a drop in the number of visitors, which is feared...
...citizens as well as public officials and cultural guardians are beginning to believe that the costs may outweigh the benefits. Jobs generated by tourism in hotels, restaurants and parks, while in demand among local people, are usually at the low end of the pay scale. The biggest beneficiaries of tourist spending are developers and owners, who often take their profits out of town and, if they are foreigners, out of the country as well. Even the tourist industry is starting to recognize that threatened treasures must be protected or business will not survive. As London's Daily Telegraph...