Posts Tagged ‘tourism’
African poverty is falling. (Seriously.) Maybe it’s the tourism? (Doubt it.)
The ridiculously digitally prolific Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution points to a new paper from an MIT-Columbia team of authors who’ve found that across the board, poverty is falling in Africa. Not just in certain kinds of countries, with certain advantageous histories or certain huge amounts of minerals…everywhere. (In a sentence that has to have [...]
Tourism in Rwanda Take I, or, ‘Which way to the mass graves?’
I don’t understand this
. There are a hundred million things to write about here—me and my professional compatriots are trying to get a humble few of them into print, and no one cares. But the AP bothers to write, and the International Herald Tribune bothers to print, a lengthy piece on visitors to [...]
Tourism in Rwanda Take II, or, Baby Gorillas Are So Damn Cute
Two weeks ago, Rwanda held its fourth annual Kwita Izina, or naming ceremony for baby gorillas. For three or four days before, baby gorillas were everywhere: huge billboards showed them playing with their mouths open, which I’m guessing we’re supposed to think is them smiling. Buses were dressed up in that colorform-like stuff [...]
How to improve tourism: Take history, add guilt, stir.
A few weeks ago, I decided to follow up my foray into what seemed the most foreign of “cultural” events in Rwanda — the country’s biggest beauty pageant — with something that surely must be among the most Rwandan: the opening of the Museum of Ancient Rwandan History.
The government and some private partners have restored [...]
Once more unto the beach, dear friends
I know most of you who read this blog, and I’m pretty sure that the five-star beach resort is less likely to make it onto your list of imminent vacation destinations than a place like, say, Luang Prabang, Laos.
It’s an ancient Buddhist village, protected (if you can really call it that) by war and poverty [...]
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