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- <text id=90TT0317>
- <title>
- Feb. 05, 1990: Business Notes:Tourism
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 05, 1990 Mandela:Free At Last?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- TOURISM
- Club Med It Isn't
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Egypt has its pyramids, Rome its Colosseum. Iran has its
- attractions too, notably its Persian ruins, but few tourists
- have seen them in recent years because of turmoil within the
- country. Now, hungry for foreign currency to help rebuild its
- war-ravaged economy, Iran aims to develop a tourism industry.
- This year the country hopes to welcome 300,000 visitors who
- will bring in more than $200 million.
- </p>
- <p> Among the first Western visitors were 33 Italians who paid
- $2,000 apiece in December for a nine-day tour of Tehran and
- major archaeological sites. Elda Chiaraviglio, a Turin travel
- agent who helped organize the group, called the visit "a leap
- backward into medieval Islam, but fascinating." While many
- Iranians remain hostile to the U.S., she noted, the American
- dollar was the only foreign currency that Iranian black
- marketeers would accept.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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