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Showing posts with label tourism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tourism. Show all posts
Monday, September 15, 2025

Conflict ebbs in West Africa; entrepreneurs ready to welcome tourism, spark economic development

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Conflict is ebbing in West Africa, and local businesses are hoping to spur tourism and economic development to restore ravaged communities. ...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Vietnam marks 50 years since fall of Saigon, but American corporations overshadow communism today

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At Hoàn Kiếm Lake, Hanoi Vietnam recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, and I visited Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to...
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Contemporary sculpturist comments on Ukraine war

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Lakenen considers the war in Ukraine in this 2022 sculpture. A couple of weeks ago, I visited artist Tom Lakenen's Lakenenland , a sculp...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Curators decry parody souvenirs, claim quasi-copyright

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D 'n' me at the Accademia in June. RJ Peltz-Steele CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 David's genitals are all the rage in Florentine touristic fas...
Monday, August 5, 2024

Trademark feud centers on unsolved double murder

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Lizzie Borden House, left; Miss Lizzie's Coffee, right. A museum and a coffee shop are locked in trademark litigation over the name of a...
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Greenland celebrates 'National Day,' ever growing autonomy, but dependence on Danish aid persists

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Greenland flags celebrate National Day, Qaqortoq. Yesterday I was in Qaqortoq, Greenland, for Greenland National Day, June 21. (All photos b...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Entrepreneur Jones develops one-stop tour site

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A new website, Flaming Travel aims to fill a market gap in tour and adventure searching, giving world travelers a one-stop shop to search m...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Bahamian development, identity stall between Columbus, Atlantis; tourist dollars seem not to land

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Columbus is absent from Government House, Nassau. Bowen Yang's amusing portrayal of Christopher Columbus on the Saturday Night Live ...