Every year 1.4 million tourists visit the fort and for many, an elephant ride is the highlight of the visit.
Many whistlers now compete for the attention of tourists, and some have even fallen out with each other and are no longer on speaking terms.
For many concerned residents, that is not good enough: merely preserving a disembodied heritage for tourists.
But Austin, the Brookings analyst, said economic revival also depends on doing more to make the region's 10, 000 miles of Great Lakes shoreline and many rivers and inland lakes a draw for tourists and for service companies that want a beautiful setting.
The Henderson headquarters, three squat beige buildings surrounded by palm and flowering plum trees, have become an unlikely pilgrimage spot for businesspeople, tourists, and the odd celebrity, many ferried to and from their hotels on the Las Vegas Strip in a complimentary shuttle van.
"It is really encouraging to see that so many tourists visited Northern Ireland last year and bodes well for 2012 when there is a jam-packed programme of exciting events and openings taking place, " Mrs Foster said.
Many are Chinese tourists from warmer parts of the country, for who snow and ice is an unseen novelty.
The spectacular mountainous regions of Central Asia, the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas, closed for many years to visitors from abroad, now attract growing numbers of foreign tourists attracted by the unique cultures and natural beauty of these hitherto isolated areas.
With domestic tourists as numerous as overseas visitors, there are many reasons for keeping those memories alive, Felipe said.
The case highlighted Cambodia's growing problem with sex tourism: thousands of sex tourists head to the country each year, many of them looking for children.
He himself, he told them, was fast becoming a tourist attraction, and if too many American tourists arrived his people would just have to leave to make room for them.
Activists say sex tourists are tolerated in part because many locals find it acceptable to buy children for sex.
In a bullring with a capacity for nearly 20, 000 spectators, the number of tickets sold, many of them to curious tourists, often fails to exceed 3, 000.
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But there is no question that his story, like those of so many whom Barker and Giddins also describe, illustrates that the jazz life is not for tourists.
Singapore and South Korea, which send many tourists to Thailand and invest heavily there, have told their citizens to stay away for now.
This demand has created a dilemma for many hotel managers throughout New Orleans: Kick out residents who are the soul of the city or turn back tourists whose money will help regenerate the Big Easy.
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