Sentences with phrase «image as a tourist destination»

Riyadh seems intent on boosting the country's image as a tourist destination, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announcing in August a project to turn 50 islands and a string of sites on the Red Sea into luxury resorts.

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Then as our community moves progressively forward, we can all still be relieved to know that Miami is still on its way to transcending its past as just another dumbed down tourist destination — promoting that less thoughtful decaying visual aroma that we still get a whiff of now and then... that kind of old Miami putrid commercialized smell that turned so many despondent and sour and caused the international arts communities to view Miami's indifference to an international discourse as but a memory, constantly recuperating the South Florida pastiche... a past that if you need reminding of you need only take a trip to Key West to know what kind of image Miami is still fighting against — the land built on coral and swamp, but filled with cheap and shallow tawdriness, like acid in your contemporary, progressive face, eyes of mundane kitschy campiness saddening and maddening, dumbed down affection that solicits and sells itself to another kind of cultural neanderthal — the accidental drunken tourist who seeks passive mediocrity and the same in other kindred spirits -LSB-.]

«These photographers brought images of America's natural landmarks to the public — they helped create the idea of these places as tourist destinations,» said Ariel Pate, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Milwaukee Art Museum and curator of the exhibition.