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One government minister at the CDF noted that the one million Chinese tourists who went abroad last year used their credit cards to buy about $1 billion worth of goods that they cannot obtain at home (while noting the irony that some of those European and American branded goods are actually manufactured in China).
True, Turkey needs Russian tourists to bolster its distressed economy.
Our economic diplomacy has three key objectives, one of which is to secure more markets for our exports and enticing more tourists to visit the country.
PRINCETON – The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which reduce the influx of tourists, and its policy of promoting “gross national happiness” instead of economic growth.
The two are related: more tourists might boost the economy, but they would damage Bhutan’s environment and culture, and so reduce happiness in the long run.
And it is one of the favorite destinations for investors and tourists worldwide.
This reminded me of my very first trip to Switzerland, as a student traveling on an Interrail card, when I saw Japanese tourists lined up to board the mountain train at Kleine Scheidegg.
These days, it is China that will supposedly overtake the US; and, as it happens, that same Kleine Scheidegg station platform now has a carriage reserved for Chinese tourists.
And yet there are still plenty of Japanese tourists in Switzerland, too; and in Grindelwald, one of the Bernese Highlands’s many picturesque villages, there is even a Japanese-language information center.
Given these trends, I suspect that Switzerland will continue to host plenty of Japanese tourists in the coming years.
To appreciate China’s rise, one need only look at all the Chinese tourists in the Bernese Highlands and many other places.
Egypt’s economy, bruised by the outflow of foreign investment and a dearth of tourists, is on life support.
On the recently built road from Delhi to Agra to facilitate the flow of tourists to the Taj Mahal, there must be at least 200 pedestrians and bicyclists for each motor vehicle.
During July and August 2012, the number of tourists visiting London, the host city for the Summer Games that year, actually fell by 5%.
As it happens, everyday tourists avoid Olympic host cities during the Games, owing to crowds, transportation delays, inflated prices, and possible security threats.
If tourists are avoiding a city – or having a negative experience because of the Games – they will have nothing good to report back to their family and friends.
The government was forced to impose harsh capital controls, including restrictions on what citizens could spend abroad as tourists.
Last year alone, some six million Koreans visited ASEAN member states, both as tourists and for business.
It now has a street life more vibrant than Singapore, a layout reminiscent of Paris before the automobile, and a reputation among Japanese tourists for high-quality hotels, transportation, and restaurants.
Whereas young Europeans look for jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities in America, young Americans go to Europe as tourists.
The government, desperate to earn foreign exchange, has launched a major campaign to attract international tourists.
Before terrorists blew up a plane carrying Russian tourists as it flew over Sinai in 2015, Russians accounted for 30% of visitors to Egypt.
Embassies have issued warnings to tourists and their citizens living in France; television news programs have shown hours of footage of burning cars.
North Korea’s Pachinko MissilesTOKYO – Three scenes are often the subject of photographs taken by foreign tourists visiting Japan.
These craftsmen don’t want to be told that they should start retraining as tour guides to service the inevitable horde of middle-income Chinese tourists, as that country takes over high-end light manufacturing like tailoring.
Just about anyone and anything, from tourists, terrorists, and refugees to e-mails, diseases, dollars, and greenhouse gases, can reach almost anywhere.
This contradicted Tibetan reports of dozens of deaths, perhaps as many as 100, and accounts of foreign tourists who said they heard shots and saw the bodies of Tibetans gunned down by the security forces.
Moreover, there remains a serious risk of terrorist attacks at home, especially as attacks by “lone wolves” – like the killing of 38 tourists in Tunisia in June, or the attempted attack in August on a Paris-bound Thalys train – become more prevalent.
By contrast, China has a more limited nuclear force, annual Sino-American trade totals a half-trillion dollars, and more than 350,000 Chinese students and three million tourists are in the US each year.
Of course, the tourists who crowd Cuba’s beaches are not aware of this iron curtain.
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