American Green says it plans to plug another $2.5 million in investments to make the town attractive to what it hopes will soon be a booming pot vacation industry.
This new species of surfer contributes to a booming market for vacation packages, instruction, equipment and real estate near some of the world's best surf breaks.
"That's why I'm out of a job," said Mr. Stocker, adding that the taxes haven't slowed a booming market in luxury vacation homes, many going to Canadians.
Since there was little need for airlines or hotels to discount when travel was booming, the difference between a vacation package and booking à la carte was less significant.
THE vacation swindle business is booming, according to law enforcement agencies, consumer advocates and travel industry organizations.
C6 TOURISM -- Tourist locales a short drive from big cities are booming, as Americans take more day trips by car and fewer long vacations by plane in response to the terror attacks and to a weakening economy.
Meanwhile, business appears to be booming among the legions of foreigners who live here or pass through on vacations.
Flush with cash from a booming economy and enamored of luxury, Brazilians are visiting South Florida in droves and spending millions of dollars on vacation condominiums, clothes, jewelry, furniture, cars and art, all of which are much less expensive here than in Brazil.
Business is now booming -- even though the strongest time for tire sales is spring, before families go on summer vacations, and late fall, when the snow-tire business picks up.
Thanks to the rise of French tourism in the 1920s and '30s — spurred by the popularization of the automobile, the introduction of paid vacations for the working classes and waves of Francophiles visiting from America — picture postcards were a booming industry in Yvon's day.
