Just walk through tourist-friendly Times Square these days.
The early years were lean, when Atlas sold original historical documentaries on VHS through tourist gift shops.
No travel narrative is enhanced by details of delayed flights or the admission that the author browses through tourist brochures.
Philatelic motifs – from parrots to butterflies, ocean waves to temples – made for an upbeat romp through tourist office iconography.
Heavily armed police officers make periodic rounds through tourist areas, and residents say there are more plainclothes officers keeping tabs on Indonesians from outside Bali.
The projects are often justified as providing coastal communities with protection from storms and from further erosion, but the most immediate benefits tend to be economic, through tourist spending and tax revenue.
Sheltering a herd of 250 wild horses on Deerwood Ranch, replacing the cattle that the Wilsons once raised, is intended to be at least partly self-sufficient, through tourist visits, and to be a stabilizing factor in an area where working agriculture is increasingly threatened.
The highway is U-shaped as it rounds the peninsula running through tourist areas in Leland and Suttons Bay in addition to the national park.
It's hoped that people seeing and learning about these amazing (and often disappearing landscapes) will then act as ambassadors to help protect them, as well as contributing economically to their preservation through tourist levies.
