Hit hard by the steep drop in visitors after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, hotel operators in Florida vacation cities are aggressively competing for the spring break crowd -- those noisy throngs of young people with shorts, tank tops and open beer containers that some places once tried just as hard to drive away.
Sometimes, these DJs even skip larger vacation cities in Mexico like Cabo and come straight to Hardpop, drawn to its younger, vibrant community of hardcore dance music heads.
Troops have already set up at least one bridge in the mountain vacation city of Teresópolis, officials said, but at least 10 main highways are blocked in an area where the slides hit, hampering efforts to move in the heavy machinery needed to begin large-scale cleanup efforts.
In Tehran, the main streets become eerily empty as millions of residents leave town for the Nowruz holiday, creating caravans of traffic that snake through the Alborz mountains and toward the Caspian coast, a traditional destination for vacationing city dwellers.
While vacationing city dwellers still stay at a few ranches and tourists buy Western wear in the shops or look over the spurs and lassoes at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum downtown, a large sector of the town concentrates on a new business.
The Fresh Air Fund has been arranging summer vacations for city children for 126 years.
Consumers' options have long been limited to OpenTable for restaurant reservations, travel sites like SkyScanner to plan their vacations, and city guides like Gogobot, where they can receive personalized recommendations about the best places to eat, sleep and sightsee.
From my base in San Francisco, I'll be participating in an array of Sierra Club Mission Outdoors outings, including Volunteer Vacations, Inner City Outings, Military Families and Veterans Initiatives, and Local Outings, as well as other exciting programs at Outdoor Nation and at the Sierra Student Coalition training in Puerto Rico!
It can be explained only on the basis that city people shop in cities, vacation in other cities and travel on business from city to city.
Or is the market even broader, including all vacation spots and cities with convention centers?
Soni said that wealthier city kids like him travel some 600 kilometers to the city of Medan, North Sumatra, "taking a vacation" to a city where local values are far less conservative and Sharia Law isn't enforced.
