Where elsewhere the crowds pump through Tate Modern, the Rothko room seduces visitors into rapturous whispers.
The boa constrictor set up home throughout the Caribbean long before its islands' tourist boards started seducing visitors of a similarly supine persuasion.
The Chinese, who, Wright says, "had learned a lot from Moscow about the art of seducing foreign visitors," laid on extravagant banquets for the British.
He writes about shark's-fin soup and parades clogging the streets of Beijing, as the Chinese, who, according to Wright, "had learned a lot from Moscow about the art of seducing foreign visitors," tried to divert attention from their glaring human-rights violations with lavish buffets.
The sometimes lunar-like landscape, dolphin-frantic shores and back-to-the-garden vibe consistently seduce the most casual visitors and turn them into starry-eyed homebuyers.
In the Western world, the department store has a new audience to engage, seduce and impress: foreign visitors — especially those from China and the rest of the Far East, but also from Africa, South America and Russia.
However, after much discussion and to the inevitable disappointment of visitors seduced by romantic artists' impressions of families ambling across open downland towards the stones, the centre of the circle will still be closed off, except to specially booked groups outside normal opening hours.
While Isfahan still seduces every foreign visitor as it was intended to do, it is at Mashad, close to the border with Afghanistan, that the connections between Abbas and contemporary Iran become most clear.
Whether putting down strait-laced clubwomen or talking up the scenery along the Susquehanna River, she is sympathetic but ruthlessly unsentimental; she never stoops to snobbery, and she doesn't seduce herself with grandiose theories, like so many of our visitors.
At first glance, it is not hard to see why visitors are seduced by Kagame's Rwanda.
