Sentences with phrase «of visiting tourists»

People who lived on the island were well aware of what they needed to do in the event of a tsunami, but I doubt that the many thousands of visiting tourists knew.
There are a large proportion of the visiting tourists who visit Manado due to its proximity to the incredible diving of the islands to the north of Sulawesi.

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After living in many other places around the country, Bruce came back for a visit and noticed Portsmouth seemed up and coming with a huge influx of summer tourists and a revitalized downtown.
«While we were there on our recent visit, some tourists put down some bottles of Chinese soda and a Macaque jumped out of a tree and went straight for the bottles, grabbing and draining one of them.»
Arguably, the best time to visit NOLA is after its yearly wave of Mardi Gras tourists.
Many of the tourists visiting Cambodia are Chinese, and they are stoking tourism growth.
But you live and you learn, says Ken Weimar, the owner of Denizen Coffee in Istanbul, which is located just off the Hippodrome, now called Sultanahmet Square, where locals and tourists flock to visit the Blue Mosque.
Air China's Wings of China carries a long feature on visiting London, with almost a third of the magazine dedicated to tourist attractions in Britain's capital and other famous towns such as Oxford.
Anthony Lau of the Hong Kong Tourism Board tells CNBC about how the city is encouraging more Australian tourists to visit.
The million - square - foot Macy's flagship is among the five most visited tourist spots in New York, and its annual Fourth of July fireworks and Thanksgiving Day parade attract millions of TV viewers.
If you're visiting somewhere for the first time, you probably have a list of go - to tourist attractions you want to hit while you're there.
But the few dozen countries that require visas in advance are some of the most popular for Americans to visit — they include tourist hot spots like Brazil, China, India, and Vietnam.
More than 70 percent of Chinese tourists traveling abroad will visit other Asian countries this year, according to Ctrip.
The violence has largely taken place outside of areas frequented by tourists, who drive what is a $ 20 billion industry for Mexico, and statistics suggest it hasn't had great effect on how many people are visiting — occupancy rates exceed 90 %.
Mexico saw a 9 % increase in tourist visits in 2016, but the upticks of violence in Quintana Roo and Baja California Roo have given Mexican businesses and officials an unpleasant reminder of what in recent years has befallen Acapulco, a once vibrant tourist hub in Guerrero state.
While shoppers can easily enter Tiffany's store through its 57th Street entrance, the heavy security around Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue a block away has lowered visits by shoppers, many of whom are tourists from Europe and China who are already staying away from Fifth Avenue's luxury stores because of a strong U.S. dollar.
After the shooting down of the Russian warplane, Moscow halted chartered flights to Turkey, which had a significant impact given the high number of Russian tourists visiting Turkey.
In particular, the letter notes the risk implied by having 500,000 athletes and tourists visit Rio and then return home, potentially spreading Zika to every corner of the globe.
AUSTIN, TX - MARCH 14: Locals and tourists visit the «Cathedral of Junk,» a creation that artist Vince Hannemann began working on in his backyard in the late 1980's, which now draws visitors from all over the country on March 14, 2015 in Austin, Texas.
Over the next five years, this nation alone will import US $ 8 trillion worth of goods, attract $ 600 billion of foreign investment, make $ 750 billion in outbound investment, and send Chinese tourists on 700 million overseas visits.
One of the primary benefits is that they'll share their first - hand experiences of living in Mexico and introduce you to the communities they live in... places you'd likely never visit as a tourist.
830,000 Chinese tourists visited Cambodia last year, a 19.5 y - o - y increase17 that was followed by another robust 40 % y - o - y increase to reach 529,967 Chinese arrivals in H1 2017, accounting for 20 % of all foreign visitors in Cambodia so far.18
As more Chinese tourists take advantage of visa changes that make it easier for them to visit the UK, real estate investment is set to rise too, says the head of the Juwai.com property website
The type of Chinese tourists visiting Australia is changing, reports the Australian Financial Review (27 December 2016).
Philip Kingston, senior vice president of international for Constellation Brands, said the company in recent years has «seen a very encouraging uptake in Chinese tourists visiting our wineries in California, as well as wine sales in China.»
(According to the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development, Cuba trails only the U.S. and Mexico as a destination for Canadians holidaying abroad, with more than a million Canadians visiting Cuba every year, the island country's biggest source of tourists.)
«It's owners have been great supporters of the Cathedral over many years but also lots of people who stay at the Royal Clarence come to visit the Cathedral as tourists, many many come to worship with us, and a number of people who worship with us are on the staff there.
The Guardian: Sistine Chapel tourists to be vacuumed and cooled to protect frescoes The 5 million tourists who visit the Sistine Chapel every year are to be vacuum cleaned and cooled down before entry in an effort to reduce the pollution damaging Michelangelo's frescoes, the director of the Vatican museums said.
The Guardian: No room at the inn — but Bethlehem's popularity is a boon for Palestinians Tens of thousands of pilgrims and tourists are expected to visit Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, over Christmas.
Four months later, a faction of the group that viewed the initiative as an unacceptable compromise orchestrated the murder of fifty - eight tourists who were visiting the Temple of Hatshepsut at Luxor, but the Gamāʿah's main leaders continued to affirm nonviolence, issuing manifestos, tracts, and statements.
«I believe that we can show off our hospitality and convince tourists that Morioka or Iwate are good places [to visit],» Takefumi Shimomukai, director of the Iwate Prefectural Government's Morioka Regional Development Bureau, told a Japanese news service.
One can visit a lot of national monuments after hours: no crowds, no tourist trams, no hawkers, plus I could try my hand at night photography (hope you don't mind if I show a couple results, dedicated to Lincoln and King).
When I visited Amanda in Hyderabad back in 2006, I had my «poverty tourist» moments — being shocked by the slums, throwing up all the time, taking an absurd amount of photographs, crying like a baby when the rickshaw driver ripped us off — but Amanda never looked down her nose at me or chided my efforts, even though a few weeks before she had held a dying little girl in her arms and a few weeks later she would severely burn her leg on a motorbike.
The 52 year old tourist was visiting the Basilica of Santa Croce with his wife when a piece of decorative stone fell on him from a height of 66 feet.
I'd never visited the Washington Monument even once while living in D.C., or any of the other monuments, until returning years later as a tourist.
(Financial Times)- A stand - off between two titans of finance, the Bank of Italy and the Vatican, has forced tourists to abandon their visits to the Sistine Chapel - unless they have cash in their pockets.
Shortly before I visited Coventry, while staying at a Scottish inn, I encountered a middle - aged tourist who praised Britain's cathedrals and extolled in particular the architectural drama of Coventry's new, postwar cathedral.
For the moment, while they impressed him, it was all discounted against Rome's great status, the Indulgences to be gained by visiting the basilicas, the sheer fact of being at the heart of Christendom, and the usual Christian tourist reaction of the time — he admired the Pantheon, its size and its symbolism, once the place of the classical gods, now a Christian church.
We spent 2 days in D.C. being tourist and the rest of our week visiting my husband's family and childhood friends.
Marrakesh might be an exception with the many tourists visiting but in the rest of the country eating cooked meals was a bit hard as I don't eat goat or sheep meat.
Now with the number of tourists and cruise ships visiting the island from around the world, Le Grande Marche has broadened its offerings to include all ethnicities» food favorites.
«More than 50 % of consumers who visited our KitKat Chocolatory Ginza store are foreign tourists, highlighting the popularity of KitKat worldwide.»
Following a string of food safety scandals, Chinese tourists visiting Copenhagen have this year stocked up on Danish - made organic infant milk formula, prompting some supermarkets to limit the number of cans each customer can buy.
Stone said tourists visited SPC Ardmona factory outlets to buy discounted products directly from the source and the region's fruit - picking opportunities drew about 10,000 international backpackers each year, supporting the growth of other businesses.
Around 25 % of international tourists to New Zealand now seek out a «wine experience», visiting our beautiful wineries, cellar doors and vineyard accommodation.
In 2014, according to latest research from the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority (LVCVA), Fremont Street Experience was visited by 36 percent of the 41 million tourists to Las Vegas.
Trust & Co. is just the type of tenant that aligns with the demands of discerning Coral Gables residents and tourists that visit the Mile.
Washington DC, Americas capital... one of the most visited cities in the United States and one that should be on every tourists must see places Read more
Salgado patented a process by which he ferments green coffee beans by submerging them in the hot thermal springs of Costa Rica, which was inspired by tourists who visit the «magical waters» for their healing and rejuvenating properties.
Unless the «non football tourist» arsenal fans stop visiting the armoury, and stop buying match tickets as well as protesting on top of that, NOTHING will change.
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