ECONOMY-BALKANS:  Tourism Brings New Hope
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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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The decaying Ottoman bridge on  Bosnia&#39;s River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but  the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic  novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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TIRANA, Jul 4 (IPS) - People across the Balkans have much in common,  forget the conflicts of the recent or distant past, and the  efforts of politicians to convince them how "different"  or "distinctive" they are.
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I recently took part in a conference in Belgrade entitled "Dealing with the past in ex-Yugoslavia." Although the rest of post-communist Europe confronted such questions a decade ago, the Balkan wars of the ...
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In this poor Balkan country set to join the European Union in January, brazen slayings _ along with gang shootouts and car and apartment bombings _ have almost become part of the fabric of everyday life.Comment
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There is great excitement in the Balkan state as its people prepare to welcome world leaders, reports Laura Sheeter.
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Having learned to use beauty for profit, the Costa del Sol is showing the strains of her trade," says the 1985 "Let's Go: Europe." In the two decades since, tourism has continued to soar, and every town on ...
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Ushering in a new era of economic muscle and political opening.
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Some of the world's most treasured destinations are in peril. Many are being trashed by mass tourism, with an assist from indifferent government policies and greedy developers. Among them:  _Easter Island.
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Business: 5 January 2005, Wednesday. Hospitality training is a very important key for the future development of Bulgarian tourism, Nevada's former tourism minister said upon his arrival in Bulgaria.
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In one area at least, the new economy is  delivering on its promise.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.
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The recent contributions of Lino Spiteri and the Minister for Tourism and Culture, Francis Zammit Dimech, which deal with the economy of the island, deserve a comment.
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The BBC's Nick Hawton visits Montenegro, Europe's newest state, to find out how it is coping, a year after it held its first polls since independence.
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The train is becoming an attractive option for business travelers in Europe.
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LISBON, Dec 20 (IPS) - A glance at Macau on the fifth anniversary of its   handover by Portugal shows that the economy of this special  administrative  region of China has grown, regional integration  has been strengthened, and  the tourism industry has expanded.
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TIRANA, Aug 29 (IPS) - Achieving environmentally sustainable tourism in  Albania will also be up to the efforts of communities and civil  society organisations, but as in much of the post-socialist  world, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and their donors  will have to clean up their act first.