But the $700 million project is still stirring opposition among groups ranging from fishermen and tourism interests to property owners and some environmental organizations.
Snowmobile advocates, backed by snowmobile manufacturers and tourism interests, said a ban would devastate the local economy around the parks, which lie mostly in northwestern Wyoming.
Christo's supporters — a strange bedfellow's mix of art lovers, politicians and tourism interests — rallied near the county administration building before the session began, handing out sky-blue T-shirts.
And with the dry conditions persisting, Austin, the booming seat of Texas' Legislature, is now facing a tug of war for water with agricultural, fishing and tourism interests farther downstream.
An act of Congress that makes air travel even slightly more tolerable is going to take the kind of political courage that too often seems in short supply in Washington.The US Travel Coalition is backed by a number of large hotel and tourism interests, such as Marriott, Choice Hotels and the Las Vegas tourism board, that have real power.
May was the seventh consecutive month in which the U.S. spending figures were down compared to the year-earlier period, after more than 60 consecutive months of growth, according to a report by the Office of Travel and Tourism Industries, a government agency that promotes U.S. tourism interests.
But last year, the group withdrew from the city rather than face Kenyan forces, who marched into the country in 2011 to try to keep the chaos of Somalia from crossing the border and threatening Kenya's substantial commercial and tourism interests.
With increased economic and tourism interests in both Japan and Russia, culturally different meanings of 'forest' need to be understood for future cooperative environmental management.
Economic incentives resulting from strategic alliances between the public and private sector have been targeted towards enhanced regulation of fisheries and supporting tourism interests.
"The tourism interests would only be protected if the developer is required to mitigate the tourism loss by providing funding of £32.5m per annum and £975m over the lifetime of the project [30 years] to the affected areas.
