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...country's economy has been badly affected by the three rounds of violence, a flight of capital appears to be under way, and most businessmen consider the 1975 tourist season a dead loss. Beyond all that, the internecine bloodshed has shattered the morale of the dynamic city, which has become the financial capital of the Arab world...
...tourist economy of the Grenadines-and even of more "developed" areas, like the Bahamas and the Virgin Islands-is much affected by chartering. Hotels and restaurants on the more remote islands depend entirely on the nights yachtsmen pass ashore, and last year bareboaters spent at least $3 million during their port stops. All the same, shore facilities tend to be primitive, and there is no need to sleep or eat on land. The boats come self-sufficient: overhauled, clean, tanked up, stocked with food...
Pointedly suspicious of outsiders (roughly defined as anyone whose birth certificate is not on file at the local hospital), some Islanders suspected that Hollywood interlopers would wreck their tranquillity, ruin the tourist season and befoul their waters. Others pointed out that a film crew of 150 or so would pep up business considerably during a recession offseason. So the Islanders settled back to watch events with skepticism...
After three postwar decades of headlong tourist development, a number of states from Oregon to Maine have reappraised the actual near-and long-term value of tourism in ecological, social and economic terms. Using a kind of restaurant-rating system in reverse, the consulting firm of Arthur D. Little Inc., for example, conducted a study for the state of Maine. The study rated the social and environmental impact of various types of tourists by measuring them on a scale of minus one (for least damaging) to minus five for each of a dozen criteria, and comparing the total with...
...popular Eastern Shore not only spend four times as much as campers but also generate six times more jobs, seven times more income and over five times as much tax revenue for the area. Using these and similar studies, state and community planners hope to devise strategies for balanced tourist growth. Rather than employ scattershot advertising, such as Maine billboards with the inane slogan LOVER COME BACK TO ME, for example, many states could emphasize such qualities as clean air and uncrowded roads. They could also take the strain off overcrowded, ecologically fragile coastal resources by developing and promoting relatively...