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...public obsession with the smallest details of her smart clothes, her hair, her sons and her chums has made royal family life far more compelling and financially exploitable than any TV saga. What did they do without her a mere 10 years ago -- the media, the publishers, the tourist and fashion industries, the gewgawmakers? What did the royals themselves...
...propelling the separatist drive. Slovenia, the richest republic, is tired of seeing its dinars siphoned off to support its underdeveloped southern neighbors. "The poorer parts of Yugoslavia have commanded the richer parts for too long," argues Toman Bojan, a waiter in a seaside restaurant that has lost its Italian tourist clientele since ethnic hostilities erupted this year...
...During a three-hour motorized canoe ride up the Manu River, we saw 327 of the loquacious birds in a scintillating array of colors: red and green, blue and yellow, scarlet. Munn estimates that each macaw in the $ region could generate between $750 and $4,700 a year in tourist revenue -- far more over the bird's lifetime than if the animals were caught and sold...
...touches upon the basic logic of ecotourism: wildlife is more valuable running free than killed or captured. But it will be difficult to bring the benefits of tourist dollars to the more traditional Indian tribes of the region without disrupting their way of life. Some of the tribes will trade elaborate traditional cloaks called kushmas, which take three months to make, for a machete or an ax -- far below what tourists would pay for the same item. Peruvian biologist Ernesto Raez fears, however, that encouraging the Indians to reorganize themselves to serve even small numbers of tourists will require profound...
...doubt there are pitfalls to every kind of ecotourist venture. Whether it preserves or disturbs a region and its inhabitants depends entirely on the sensitivity of the people who decide the scale and nature of tourist operations. Moreover, all too often nations and peoples develop an interest in saving ecosystems only after they have been nearly destroyed by exploitation. The great virtue of ecotourism is that it allows people to profit from undisturbed nature. There is little doubt that tourism ventures motivated by respect for nature are preferable to the kind of commercialization that in the past has ruined...