Once Ravaged by War, Now Vacation Spots
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Hoping to replace images of violence with those of hospitality, countries once torn by war are seeking to boost tourism.
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WASHINGTON -- For the two regions hardest hit by the Asian tsunamis, international relief efforts are being complicated by more than the rising death tolls and physical devastation: They are also war zones.
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Enjoy an affordable and luxurious stay in Jerusalem. Mend a life shattered by terrorism.
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Sri Lanka's truce brought back tourists but the tsunami has ended the revival, writes Sanjoy Majumder.
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This capital's absorption with the war in Iraq is prompting former senior officials and ex-generals to look beyond the debate over whether U.S. troops should be withdrawn to ways in which the United States might bolster the battered Mideast country.
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Beneath the sparkling five-star tourist sheen of Taba lies a richly historical region that is littered with memories of failed Middle East peace processes.
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The Web site instructs tourists to  "Rediscover Lebanon." It promises beaches, ski slopes, ruins,  nightlife -- something for everyone packaged in a tiny country  more often remembered for war and kidnappings.
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A German statesman, a Czech supermodel and a Swedish Olympic ski champion were among the vacationers whose search for peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was shattered by the tsunamis that spared neither rich nor poor.
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Last summer it was Israeli airstrikes and Hezbollah rockets. This year, it's al-Qaida-inspired militants and explosions keeping tourists away. This small, trouble-plagued country is once again set to lose millions of much-needed tourism dollars because of unrest.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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Honoring fallen soldiers who died in combat, battle-scarred veterans of World War II returned Sunday to a desolate valley where they trained six decades ago.
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In the over 20 years I spent in Africa, I saw a lot of desolation and more than enough barren camps erected to house civilians displaced by war and famine.
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BELGRADE, Aug 18 (IPS) - Countries across the Balkans are boosting tourism  to build recovery from communism or the wars that broke former  Yugoslavia.
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Hmmm. Bosnia, 2001. It's May and I'm on my way to Croatia. What a beautiful country this is, even after the war that tore neighbours and families apart.
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Tourists bored with bungee jumping and other extreme holidays may soon be able to get their teeth into another challenge: a couple of weeks in a former communist detention camp in Croatia with hard labour thrown in.
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Where the war was once the dominating factor in mainstream economic prognostication, lately it has become little more than a tragic sideshow.
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Long a a haven for foreign sexual predators, the war-ravaged country is suddenly taking a hard line with a number of high-profile arrests