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Imagine an American businessman, tourist or college student asked the same question...
While the Soviet schedulers drew up the standard list of New York City tourist attractions -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the World Trade Center, Broadway -- Gorbachev also accepted an earlier invitation: to visit the brass- and-glass high-rise office-and-apartment complex and atrial shopping mecca on Fifth Avenue, and enjoy a private dinner with megabuilder Donald Trump and his wife Ivana. Does private mean just the Trumps and the Gorbachevs? Trump, who was called directly by a Soviet official, says, "It seems that...
Akeem: Well, the tourist trade was pretty slow then, and since the Revolution, there just haven't been any good bakeries in the city...
...less tourist-oriented countries of Eastern Europe, both the inconvenience and the rewards are magnified. Good food and decent hotels may require some luck and homework to find. But to many, all the inconveniences of time and place seem a small price to pay for the chance to wander through Prague's heart-stopping streets on a quiet afternoon or linger in Budapest's Hungarian National Museum without being jostled by the crowds...
...fact, it is precisely because so much of the tourist industry slows down during the winter that so many travelers are attracted to the off-season. The low season is a blessed chance to eavesdrop on real life in a spirit of calm and privacy. Even the cities lose their summer affectations. "People get a better feel for Parisian life," says Nicole Roques-Lagier, press attache for the Paris Tourist Office. "They see people going about their daily business, much more so than in the summer, when the French themselves are on vacation." It is easier to get a table...