Fortunately, Svalbard is one of Europe's most exhilarating destinations for adventure-based tourism.
During a visit to a Falkirk-based tourism scheme, Jim Mather said the project was among those that could bring economic benefits to Scotland.
Another community-based tourism venture is the Community Baboon Sanctuary, an experiment in voluntary citizen conservation, founded in 1985.
The course will combine presentations with practical examples, technical visits, as well as the application of service design and consumer touchpoints in the field to support and ensure successful biodiversity-based tourism product development.
The Madrid-based World Tourism Organisation decided to go ahead with its assembly after consulting the governments of South Korea and Japan.
The city's economy has always been a smoke-and-mirrors affair, based on tourism.
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Main activities include tourism based on natural and cultural heritage, agriculture and forest exploitation.
About 100 km south of the Korean Peninsula, the volcanic island has a vibrant economy based largely on tourism and several well preserved geosites of world importance.
Another victim, Rachel Ehrenfeld, was unable to attend the conference lest she be subjected to legal action in British courts pursuant to a Shariah-based "libel tourism" judgment against her.
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But both places have a tourism based economy, need tourists, and I am describing the post-Katrina revival solely as it applies to visitors, who may be stunned by the current breadth of the lodging, dining and activity offerings.
Due to the increased road access, the area developed a nascent yet thriving adventure-tourism industry based out of towns like Coihaique in the North and Torres del Paine and Punta Arenas in the South.
Rwanda, in particular, has developed a lucrative eco-tourism industry based on rich foreigners who wish to follow in the steps of Dr Schaller and of Dian Fossey, an American researcher who brought the gorillas' plight to the world's attention, and was later murdered, probably by poachers who did not welcome the publicity.
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For in reality, Cyprus -- one of the smallest economies in the eurozone -- has a manageable fiscal deficit, low debt and until very recently a thriving economy, based on financial services and tourism.
Leo Seaton, the Sydney-based manager of media relations at Tourism Australia, has travelled to more than 50 countries over the years.
Look into possible tourism investment bank, based on the Austrian model.
"Over the last couple of years, there has definitely been an upswing, " said Deborah Chan, programme manager of Wild Asia, a Malaysia-based NGO dedicated to promoting responsible tourism throughout Asia.
Nearly all Antarctic tourism is sea-based, meaning that your transportation, meals and accommodation are combined in one neat package (your ship), so that no infrastructure has to be built ashore in Antarctica's delicate environment.
The lesson here: a strong economy has to be based on something more than gaming, tourism and home construction.
There are some small to medium-sized firms based here but although the main industry, tourism, has been in decline over the last twenty years, Eastbourne has benefited from growth in the economy.
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Since the 1980s, the government has encouraged Belizeans to be stakeholders in their own tourism industry, occasionally supporting community-based projects, according to the travel book Insight Guides Belize.
The answer may not be in the concept itself iced caramel macchiato crosses the counter as briskly in Cologne as it does in London or New York but in the deal that KarstadtQuelle, the German department store and tourism group, cut with Seattle-based Starbucks.
Orbital comprises a portfolio of UK-based logistics and marketing services businesses serving the travel, tourism, education, charity, publishing and healthcare sectors.
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The result was a five-year plan for the economy, highlighting industries that could become engines of growth: tourism, it, pharmaceuticals, export-based manufacturing, minerals and legal and accounting services.
The Edinburgh-based investment company announced last year that it intended to upgrade the tourism destination.
In addition to community-based projects, successful efforts in the public sector have helped boost sustainable tourism in Belize.
The professional modules were defined based on the main target of the area, elaborated with the support of tourism specialist consultants.
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Based on statistics from research firm Applied Analysis, in 1990, 58% of all tourism dollars spent in Las Vegas went to gambling.
Minnesota Vikings owner Mark Wilf said his team's clash with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013 would offer acute exposure of "Minnesota's impressive business community and tourism industry, " as well as offering the franchise's Europe-based fans a chance to see the team in action.
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