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Seabrook opponents maintain that the plant is not safe and that the congested beach tourist area around it could not be evacuated safely in case of an accident...
...most popular route up Kibo, known somewhat disparagingly as the tourist route, is, as British climber Ian Standbridge wryly observes, "no cheap vacation." Kilimanjaro National Park charges an entrance fee of about $150 a person for the climb, which begins at park headquarters in Marangu, Tanzania. For the guides, porters and food for the five-day trek, Marangu's two hotels charge an additional $250 a person. And don't forget generous gratuities. Money is constantly on the minds of the porters, who see each climb as a test of how large a tip they can extract from their clients...
...ecological results of natural burning are good. But the report contended that "in some cases the social and economic effects ((of natural fires)) may be unacceptable." Translation: the main problem with the fires was not what they did to plant and animal life but what they did to the tourist business...
...conflagration was devastating to the area's tourist industry and thus stirred protests against the Park Service's long-established policy of letting natural fires burn. In response, the Government has decreed that all this summer's blazes will be strenuously suppressed. But environmentalists insist that such human intervention threatens the natural cycle of forest renewal...
...woman at the Wales Tourist Center in London could rent me a car for three days but not for two days, doubted it was allowable to pay for three days but return the car after two, and anyway didn't have the right kind of vouchers, could I please come back tomorrow. To any longtime American Anglophile, everything about this episode -- the saleswoman's sweet, bovine unreason, the infinite lack of rush, the commercial hopelessness of a Wales Tourist Center seemingly intent on keeping you out of Wales -- dripped with nostalgia for a lost civilization: pre-Thatcher Britain. Life...