Dillon is known as the home of South of the Border, the Tijuana-themed tourist stop and a Mecca of American roadside kitsch.
Officials are particularly worried about summer homes near the Bavarian-themed tourist town of Leavenworth, Wash., where afternoon winds prompted some fires to expand rapidly today, toward the populated Icicle Valley.
In front of the City of David tourist center, in a former parking lot, is another massive dig, also slated for a similarly themed tourist site, also, technically, over the Green Line, and also pulling visitors to see most clearly the farthest point in the past rather than the stops along the way or the complications of the present.
Fort Cody, a Buffalo Bill-themed tourist trap, was a wealth of offensive tchotchkes, made in China to look like they were made in the United States by Native Americans.
(Photo by Basil Childers for The New York Times)(pg. 1); In Bagan, where roughly half of 4,000 ancient temples are still standing.; The vegetable market in Yangon, as Rangoon is now called.; The Moustache Brothers present comedy with a political theme.; Tourists on Taungthaman Lake at Amapura.
Nick Sim of Theme Park Tourist praised the ride and its theme, saying that it packs "a number of incredible elements into its compact circuit".
One week after the official opening of the ride at Cedar Point, attraction reviewer Brian Krosnick of Theme Park Tourist submitted an online review saying that it was "truly breathtaking".
Here's what's closed in and around Orlando, one of the world's biggest theme-park tourist spots.
It was the quintessential theme park scene: tourists chattering noisily, a chubby man digging through his fanny pack, boys using the railings as a swing set.
Out on the Strip, MGM opened CityCenter in 2009, a $7.8 billion luxury development and celebrity-architect petting zoo, which in a sense is the same concept, but pegged as a theme park for tourists.
It has become a sort of historical theme park for tourists and also the stag weekend capital of the world, with all the unsavoury "attractions" that dubious honour brings.
