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...Titanic Quarter," a shiny new residential and business district on the edge of Belfast Lough. The 185-acre development is the biggest regeneration project in Northern Ireland's history and would be the largest waterfront redevelopment in Europe. Its centerpiece would be the Titanic Signature Project (TSP), a tourist facility dedicated to the ship's construction. Developers estimate the TSP will draw 400,000 visitors each year, which would make it Northern Ireland's most popular urban attraction...
...city welcomed a record 44 million visitors in 2006, who managed to leave behind $24 billion. A 2005 survey by the New York-based Alliance for the Arts found 7.5 million people visited primarily to get a culture fix. This helps to explain why the city's biggest tourist attraction is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which ushered in 4.6 million visitors in the year ended June 30, 2007. And also why, when the museum's longtime director, Philippe de Montebello, announced his retirement earlier this month, the New York Times treated it like the abdication of a king...
...Tourism on the coast has been brought to its knees," says Rose Kwena, public relations manager with the Kenya Tourist Board. Tourism is Kenya's biggest industry. Coastal tourism has been hit even harder than the country's famed wildlife attractions because the coast relies on charter flights from Europe for the bulk of its commerce. Several European countries, including the U.K. and France, have issued travel advisories discouraging their citizens from non-essential travel to Kenya. Foreign travel insurance companies have pulled coverage from the area...
...estimated 120,000 jobs will be lost in Mombasa between now and March 2008, according to the Kenya Tourist Board; 80% of the town's residents rely on tourism for work. Mombasa is home to east Africa's largest port, and is traditionally a hub for holiday travel. But, with the decline in tourist arrivals, Kenya's national airline says that it will be forced to limit capacity on its domestic flights to cut costs. Flights from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to Mombasa will be reduced by 1,200 seats, according to Kenya Airways...
Kenya's peak season for tourism is between December and February. The Kenya Tourist Board estimates that $75 million will be lost in revenue for January and another $90 million in February. Mutie says that most of his beach colleagues have returned home in northeastern Kenya to take up farming. "Mombasa people are starving," says curio seller Elias Gitonga. He sits on a carved ebony stool surrounded by miniature carvings of elephants and giraffes. "We couldn't imagine all the tourists going away and us being left alone...