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...boldest effort to build its brand in China, a potentially vast new market for its toys, dvds and movies. The Hong Kong government?which aggressively wooed Disney and is the park's majority owner"hoped Disneyland would help secure the city's reputation as one of Asia's top tourist destinations. However, the conservative approach of Disney and its partner has produced a pint-sized park that so far hasn't matched visitors' lofty expectations. Hong Kong Disneyland has a mere 16 attractions?only one a classic Disney thrill ride, Space Mountain?compared to 52 at Disneyland Resort Paris. Meanwhile...
...very best parts of Barnett's work come in the italicized sections that break up the academic discourse and recall, in whisper-quick fragments, the scenes he has experienced on the streets of Lhasa, then and now. Like many a romantic tourist, Barnett knew little about Tibet when he arrived in Lhasa in October 1987 and suddenly found himself witness and even party to a violent uprising against Chinese rule. Eager to help a wounded Tibetan at one point, he bangs on the doors of the compound where the man is hiding?and realizes, too late, that he has thus...
...mean anything. We can provide you a very valuable experience that will hit your soul and your mind, and send you home sober." PRINCE SULTAN BIN SALMAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ, head of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Commission for Tourism, announcing that the government would begin issuing nonreligious foreign-tourist visas for the country, where alcohol is illegal and nightclubs are scarce...
...exemplary. But so do its travails, as José A. Lasheras, the director of the museum and cave of Altamira in Spain, acknowledges. "Altamira had the great luck that Lascaux had problems before we did," he says. Like Lascaux 16 years before it, Altamira shut down in 1979 after tourist numbers of almost 180,000 a year endangered the cave; it reopened in 1982 with a limit of 8,000 annual visitors. Altamira, too, constructed a replica of part of the cave as a diversion for tourists barred entry to the real thing, and in 2002 - a year after Lascaux...
...mean anything. We can provide you a very valuable experience that will hit your soul and your mind and send you home sober." PRINCE SULTAN BIN SALMAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ, head of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Commission for Tourism, announcing that the government would begin issuing nonreligious foreign-tourist visas for the country, where alcohol is illegal and nightclubs are scarce...