Tagged: tourism

Tourism
12:03 pm
Wed May 15, 2013

Elizabeth Becker Talks Big-Business Of Travel And Tourism

Elizabeth Becker's book "Overbooked."

Tourism is fast becoming the world’s largest global business, producing $6.5 trillion of the world’s economy. Elizabeth Becker is the author of "Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism." In it she looks at how this business impacts countries, the environment and culture. Ross Reynolds chats with Elizabeth Becker.

Same-Sex Marriage
7:56 am
Thu January 31, 2013

Seattle Tourism Industry Hitched To Gay Marriage

Credit Orlando Perez / U.S. Marine Corps/Wikipedia
Actor Jim Nabors during a visit to Marine Corps Base Hawaii April 22, 2010.

The star of the 1960s TV show Gomer Pyle, USMC, married his longtime male partner at Seattle’s Fairmont Olympic Hotel this month.

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