Sentences with phrase «tourist mecca»

I loved all the Kiwi touches, from the nail - biting approach to Wellington Airport to the lush greenery of the Waikato, the «scents» of Rotorua, the majesty of Queenstown, and the Tolkien tourist mecca of Hobbiton (which is even better in real life).

His answer is «yes,» as long as you don't do something stupid, like wander around alone drunk in the middle of the night, or spend your time hanging out in tourist meccas that attract dodgy characters.

Unbeknownst to your typical shopper, tourist meccas such as Toronto's Dundas Square and Vancouver's Granville Island could soon be turned into virtual battlefields, fought over by anonymous smartphone - wielding combatants.

After more than 50 years of isolation, the one - time tourist mecca has become a creature - comfort desert.

Over the past half century, the nation's capital, Ankara, has transformed from a sleepy provincial town into a cosmopolitan city, while Istanbul, long a sophisticated tourist mecca and industrial center, has grown into a megacity of 20 million situated at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.

Citing puppy mills as «inhumane and unsanitary,» Florida's tourist mecca shut down the sale of dogs and cats from commercial breeders in May of this year.

First, your experience of a given tourist mecca might well depend on when you visit.

Tennessee's biggest tourist mecca might be Gatlinburg, known as the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains.

A visit to Cuzco tumbles you back into the cosmic realm of ancient Andean culture — knocked down and fused with the colonial splendors of Spanish conquest, only to be repackaged as a thriving tourist mecca.

It was Bugsy Siegel who pioneered the transformation of this one - time desert stopover into a glittering tourist mecca, opening the $ 6 million Flamingo hotel on the fledgling Las Vegas Strip in 1946 with financial backing from Lansky.

That Isla Mujeres is crawling with a party crowd of North Americans, souvenirs shops, and overpriced restaurants shouldn't have been a surprise given the proximity of the island to tourist mecca Cancún.

We never thought we could be seating and enjoying buffer diner at this most famous and visited hotel in the middle of Bali tourist mecca, in Kuta.

The Bahamas are comprised of over 700 islands and cays that range from uninhabited to resort packed tourist meccas.

This bustling tourist mecca was once a sleepy little fishing village and port town for the state of Jalisco.

Those bets are probably safe, given that the desert tourist mecca draws more than 30 million annual visitors from around the globe.

Anti-crime activist Teresa Carmona hangs embroidered sheets in a park with details of those killed in this tourist mecca.

After President Nixon visited Hangzhou in 1972, Ma's hometown became a tourist mecca.

Compared to when I first visited Kalocsa several years ago, the sleepy little town that had been primarily an agricultural center has turned into a tourist mecca, especially at harvest time, attracting travelers from all over Europe and beyond.

DUMBO is situated at the end of the Brooklyn Bridge, and until recently has been a tourist mecca, home to world - famous Grimaldi's pizza and the perfect photograph of the Empire State Building framed by the bridge.

Developed by Mackintosh into a full - scale English - language production that premiered on London's West End in 1985 (where it is still running), Les Mis arrived in New York two years later, on the heels of the Mackintosh - produced Cats and just ahead of his Phantom of the Opera — the «British Invasion» trifecta that, at a low ebb for original American musicals, revitalized Broadway as a tourist mecca.

Since I live in such a tourist mecca, I thought there might be several on the market.

But now Durban is a heady mix of old and new, and a tourist mecca of note (I totally get why CNN listed the city as one of the world's 10 most underrated cities)... Take Stamford Hill, f...

It started to become a tourist mecca in the 1950s, with steady progress made in the 1970s as the mainland city of Cancun developed.

Campeche, although not a tourist mecca like Cancun, does have many stores offering unique items not found in Cancun or Playa.

The U.S. is a tourist mecca that has destinations to suit every single taste.

Day trips to the tourist meccas of Orlando or the exhibits of science and history from our space program at the Kennedy Space Center are just 2 hours drive.

Bangkok is also unbelievably cheap, despite being a tourist mecca.

Being a tourist mecca for many decades now though, Orlando has now grown beyond these major parks, developing an entire eco-system of highlights designed to draw the interest of any traveler, no matter -LSB-...]

From humble beginnings back in 1877 as a shipping and supply port, Port Douglas has flourished into a tourist mecca over the years.

Within an easy drive of the tourist mecca of central Florida, the state's central east coast offers the chance for families to combine Orlando theme parks with a few days at the beach.

Of all the places I've been in Turkey, by far my least favorite is Bodrum, a tourist mecca on the Aegean coast that is full of noisy discos, tacky souvenir shops, and, well, tourists, to the point where finding a full English breakfast seems easier than getting some good Turkish food.

Florida may be known as a tourist mecca, what with Miami's metropolitan nightlife and Orlando's Disney World, but the truth is that Florida is made up of lots and lots of families who love their Sunshine State.