Among them are Xcor Aerospace Inc, which hopes to join Virgin Galactic in the space tourism business.
Afghanistan also wants to revive its tourism business, which peaked in the 1970s when it featured on the hippy trail.
The diciest part of Santa Barbara's economy is the tourism business.
The Asian financial crisis has taken a terrible toll on the state, both on the stock market and on the tourism business which drives the state's economy.
Virgin Chief Executive Richard Branson is using his fame, and money, to build a space tourism business using spacecraft to be built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites.
DB's role in the sale by Metro, a big retailer, of its non-core assets, which galvanised German retailing, and in the sale of Hapag-Lloyd, a travel agency, which did the same for the tourism business.
The criteria will set the a minimum standard for sustainability for the tourism business, covering the social and economic benefits of tourism as well as its impact on a destination's environment and cultural heritage.
Developers and investors are clearly forecasting sustained growth in tourism and business travel, and are putting capital to work accordingly.
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Eight years after the first Newport Jazz Festival, New Orleans tourism and business leaders approached Wein about creating a similar festival in New Orleans.
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Travel-related taxes are often used to fund local projects unrelated to tourism and business travel, and with few exceptions, most cities and states have general sales taxes, Bates said.
With the city's stocks expected to last just a few more decades (its neighbour, Abu Dhabi, has plenty more) the logical replacements, he felt, were tourism, business and foreign investment.
Gary Gray joined the cabinet as minister for resources and energy, tourism and small business, replacing Martin Ferguson.
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City officials are working to seize on the preparations for the games as a selling point for its tourism and meeting business in advance.
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The regal Queens Hotel in Leeds was named as the Business Tourism Award winner while the Durham Ox at Crayke, near Easingwold, was named Pub of the Year.
But as Wales wanted to portray a warm welcome in the hillsides to boost tourism and entice business, the world will remember a reception where the roof leaked and the bunting blew away.
With Heathrow's growth constrained, direct routes across the North Sea and links via other European hubs - Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt and so on - Scotland's inbound tourism and outbound business could do with new options.
Sue Beeton, associate professor of tourism at La Trobe Business School, Australia agreed.
As for the tourism side of the business, Marsek says he downplays it to customers.
It has already proved that combining business with tourism can be a successful formula for a city-state.
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Business and tourism interests in Devon and Cornwall want the A30, because it brings tourist traffic down to Exeter.
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One of Disney's advantages is that the company started out in entertainment, the business that tourism is coming increasingly to resemble.
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With many millions of Americans claiming Scottish roots and ancestory, ministers are keen to strengthen business and tourism links between the two countries.
The deputy first minister said as the sixth largest economy in the world Brazil is an important country to build political, business and tourism links with.
The staging of the event must also form part of a more comprehensive tourism, sports development and business investment strategy demonstrating public and private sector and community support.
Excellent tourism infrastructure and facilities, business travel appeal, sustainable development of natural resources and rich cultural resources were among the key factors in landing the highest positions in the rankings.
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.
The progress being made in Cuba could be accelerated with the help of American charitable relief, business innovation, and tourism.
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In addition to being Sistani's headquarters, it's also home to two important Shiite shrines, and much of the city's business revolves around religious tourism and Shiite education.
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