Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 Today a refreshing tea made from the leaves is administered to tourists suffering from altitude sickness in the Andean highlands; but an infinitely greater quantity of the coca leaf goes to the illicit industry that makes cocaine for the international market. Even this does not exhaust the list of soundalikes. A starchy root eaten in the Caribbean is colloquially called "coco"; scientifically, it is one of the species of the genus Colocasia. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Many thousands of tourists travel to areas that are located at much higher altitudes than where they normally live. For every 100 feet of elevation there is a significant increase in UV radiation. But this does not prevent people from climbing mountains or living in countries like Switzerland or at the high altitudes of the Himalayan Mountains. According to the UV/cancer theory, most Kenyan, Tibetan, or Swiss residents should be afflicted with skin cancer today. Yet this is not the case at all. |
Dawson Church
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 The summer of 1991 was one of the warmest in recent European history During a hike in the Alps, two Germans tourists, Helmut and Erika Simon, came across what they first thought was the body of a hiker who had succumbed to the glacial ice, as had been the fate of several hikers in the previous few years. The Austrian authorities pulled the body loose from the ice, and only when it had been taken to Innsbruck for examination was it realized that this was no ordinary corpse. It turned out to be the mummified remains of an ancient man marvelously preserved in the ice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 At the same time, Hawaii doesn't really want to talk about its meth problem because the truth about Hawaii's unprecedented drug abuse problem scares away tourists.
Since a huge portion of the Hawaiian economy is based on tourism, too many political leaders in Hawaii stick their heads in the ground and try to pretend there isn't really much of a meth problem at all. Meanwhile, it's eating away at an entire generation of native Pacific Islanders who are on the verge of losing their children to a massive wave of drug-motivated crime and despair. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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| So many tourists flock to the wonders of Hershey, Pennsylvania, that the company no longer offers tours of its chocolate factory. Instead, visitors are whisked along on automated carts through "Chocolate World," where they can see how their favorite chocolate bars and Kisses are produced.24
Yet the great multinationals are not to be outdone by a mere American in pushing their chocolate products through Disneylike theme parks. |
Richard Bartlett
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 Even though space was very cramped on board the vessel and it was full to capacity with tourists, she had a splendid time with no hint of her former phobia at all. Now for the rest of the story, as radio icon commentator Paul Harvey says: The person in question is my daughter Justice, and I was with her on that submarine ride. I have to admit that I was less comfortable than she was.
Expectations Can Limit You
In order to deal with and meet the challenge of people's expectations, I tell them that an experience with Matrix Energetics can mean everything or can mean nothing: no thing. |
Alex Steffen
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 By being active tourists, we can make businesses understand that we want to be responsible tourists. zc
Learning Journeys mmmm Travel as education is a time-honored tradition. While it might seem that today we travel more than ever, in many ways our stamina for travel has decreased. We no longer imagine spending decades on the road, as many medieval travelers did. We travel less to learn than we do to get from point A to point B.
The need for travel as learning, however, has not gone away. As John le Carre writes, "The desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Today the great theater that could seat thousands entertains few tourists.
Crossing into Syria, Lowdermilk visited the ruined Roman city of Jerash. Home to a quarter of a million people in biblical times, the ancient city lies beneath more than ten feet of dirt washed off the surrounding slopes. Contrary to archaeologists' then-favored theory, Lowdermilk found no evidence that the water supply had failed. Just like those at Petra and Jericho, rock-walled terraces once retained soil on slopes now stripped down to bedrock. What was left of the original soil lay trapped in the valley bottoms. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 But when they take up residence on hotel grounds and feed off food tourists have discarded, the baboons' lives change rapidly. Yes, they grow larger and faster, and females become sexually mature at an average age of 2 % instead of the usual 5. But the bad news is that males develop high cholesterol and often die young of-you guessed it-coronary artery disease, not to mention other human diseases such as tuberculosis.26 In one generation, baboons with a lifestyle similar to ours-minimal exercise and a Western diet-mirror the contemporary human condition. |
David Steinman
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 Asthma attacks soared, and tourists were holing up in their hotels or seeking refuge in air-conditioned shopping malls at one of the busiest times for the country's tourism industry. Talk about the right climate for world terrorism. My Lord, what do you want youths to do when their city is being choked off and they blame it on stupid, mindless American consumerism, buying cheap wood for what? Their McMansions? |
Mark Lynas
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 Air-conditioning may not always be an option: with peak power demand occurring during the driest part of the year when reservoir levels are already low, hydroelectric power outages could lead to blackouts during the worst heatwaves. tourists - especially the elderly - will need to stay away because of the danger of heatstroke, whilst Mediterranean locals might actually prefer to spend summers far away in northern Europe in search of cooler temperatures. Lifestyles will have to change, with people perhaps adopting more Middle Eastern or North African living routines to cope with the heat. |
| This isn't a state that is high up on most tourists' 'to do' lists. 'Hell, I thought I was dead too. Turns out I was just in Nebraska,' says Gene Hackman in the film Unforgiven. A dreary expanse of impossibly flat plains, Nebraska's main claim to fame is that it is the only American state to have a unicameral legislature. Nebraska is also apparently where the old West begins - local legend in the state capital Lincoln insists that the West begins precisely at the intersection of 13th and O Streets, a spot marked by a red brick star. |
| The fires must have been particularly shocking for tourists, many of whom flock to southern
Portugal from northern Europe - more in search of the sun than several days of smoke inhalation.
However, one study shows that such wildfires are going to be an increasingly common sight for holidaymakers to southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Climate change simulations show the region getting drier and hotter as the subtropical arid belt moves northward from the Sahara. |
| Familiar to the tourists who flock to Iceland's volcanoes, geysers and waterfalls, Vatnajokull is a big dome that dominates the south-eastern side of the country. The largest ice mass in Europe, it is underlain by several volcanoes; some of which occasionally erupt underneath the 400-metre-thick ice layer, causing the famous jokulhlaup floodwater outbursts every ten years or so. In total Iceland's glaciers contain about 3,500 cubic kilometres of ice - enough for a 40-metre-thick layer of ice across the whole country. |
| As the snows disappear, so will much of the wildlife and the verdant forests that tourists currently trek through on their arduous journey to the roof of the African continent.
Ghost rivers of the Sahara
Far to the north of Kilimanjaro, in the Sahel, another drought-stricken area could by this time be experiencing some blessed relief. The Sahelian region of North Africa has long been synonymous with climatic disaster: during the 1970s and 80s famines struck the area with such severity that they sparked massive humanitarian relief efforts like Band Aid and Live Aid. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 In a world of lockouts and lockdowns, any link that transmits systemic financial pressures across markets through arbitrage or portfolio-based risk management, or that allows diseases to be easily spread from one country to the next by tourists and wildlife, or that otherwise facilitates unwelcome exchanges of any kind will be viewed with suspicion and dealt with accordingly. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Neither can tourists. When I was there last I had to wake up on freeze-dried Mexican Nescafe, even though I can buy bags of freshly roasted Guatemalan coffee beans two blocks from my house in Seattle. Less well known than the story of how Europe carved out global empires is how the way Europeans treated their soil helped launch the exploration and history of the New World. Today's globalized agriculture that ships local produce overseas to wealthier markets reflects the legacy of colonial plantations established to help feed European cities. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It will slip out, infect some tourists or business travelers, get onto airplanes and into airports and then move very rapidly from one country to another.
A few years ago, we saw the beginnings of this with SARS. Thankfully, SARS was controlled, but it was by no means a sure thing. SARS almost got completely out of control; it almost became the next global pandemic. If it wasn't for some outstanding work by the CDC, the WHO and by countries like Canada, that disease would have become a global killer. It would have produced an extremely high body count. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And they're putting a lot of money into building state-of-the-art infrastructure and engaging in marketing to attract more medical tourists.
It's a very big deal to these countries. They see the opportunity and they see the U.S. healthcare system stumbling. Meanwhile, Americans are getting more diseased than ever before, so there's an instant customer base for hospitals around the world who can offer quality care at a better price.
The U.S., for its part, tends to be rather protectionist about all of this. |
Alex Steffen
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| The intention is not to simply create another cultural village conforming to tourists' expectations of cultural encounters, but to promote meaningful exchanges that really help us understand the current socioeconomic and cultural reality of a rural community. ZH
VolunTourism wmmm Imagine traveling to a remote part of western Kenya for a safari, during which you assist local villagers, working side-by-side with them, in the construction of a tourist eco-lodge that utilizes gray water and solar power. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All it will take for this to become a global problem is for a few carriers to leave their countries and spread the virus to some tourists, businesspeople and other international travelers, who will then take it home and spread it to their local populations. Then, as the virus becomes less lethal and doesn’t kill people as quickly, it will become more contagious and have a longer survival time in each host, where it can live undetected, while spreading itself to other populations. |
Alex Steffen
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| Through the growing "Travelers' Philanthropy" movement, both tourists and tour operators are giving back to the communities that host them. For some, giving back is just the right thing to do; for others, it is a way to enhance their image and make it easier to continue working within the community. Whatever the reason, their contributions of time, talent, and treasure are changing the face of tourism. zc
Don't Our Dollars Help? mmmm When we go on vacation, we spend a lot of money—on transportation, lodging, food, entertainment, and souvenirs, for starters. |
| It is entirely possible for the residents of Manhattan, for example, to go their entire lives without owning a car—and many do. tourists and commuters headed to New York are strongly encouraged to leave their cars at home. Still, the streets of New York and other cities are frequently clogged with private traffic, mmmm We like our cars so much that the most obvious problems associated with them—traffic congestion and the need for parking—have utterly changed the urban and suburban landscape. |
| But the spectacle of the monarch migration keeps the tourists coming back and the conservationists paying attention, which has led to some innovative ideas—and the outside funding to sustain them.
Since 1997, the Michoacan Reforestation Project has worked with Mexican conservationists and hundreds of rural residents around the reserves, supplying them with over one million pine and oyamel fir seedlings for converting subsistence agricultural fields back to forestland. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 By analogy, I recently heard a lecturer complain that his country of Nepal does not want tourists, but his country does need tourists' money. The tourists transport the money. As a result, he said, there are three main religions in Nepal now: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Tourism. The tourist is the protective carrier of the money; he comes into the country and drops off the money. That's how a preservative antioxidant carries, protects, and drops off the actual vitamin nutrient into the body. But from a commercial standpoint, the idea of "synergists" is not so desirable. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Otherwise, word will spread via the internet and elsewhere, and tourists won't come visit their hospital.
Medical tourism hospitals in the Philippines and other countries actually have to meet a higher standard, because they know there's more on the line. They have to give you such a high-quality experience with such outstanding results that you go back home to the United States and tell 20 people. Because when you do that, they know they're going to get more customers, and this is great word of mouth marketing for that hospital. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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| By analogy, I recently heard a lecturer complain that his country of Nepal does not want tourists, but his country does need tourists' money. The tourists transport the money. As a result, he said, there are three main religions in Nepal now: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Tourism. The tourist is the protective carrier of the money; he comes into the country and drops off the money. That's how a preservative antioxidant carries, protects, and drops off the actual vitamin nutrient into the body. But from a commercial standpoint, the idea of "synergists" is not so desirable. |
Bryan Hanson, PhD
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 In some cases, these churches have followers in the United States, and as mentioned in note 1 in this chapter, a steady stream of "ayahuasca tourists" journey to the Amazon for the experience.
Finally, I should mention the role of "set and setting" in the experience of psychoactive (or psychedelic3) drugs. Set and setting is a phrase made famous by the Harvard psychologist Timothy Leary who experimented with a variety of psychoactive drugs from the 1950s onward. "Set" refers to a person's intentions, expectations, and motivations for taking the drug. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
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 Local people and villagers along the Amazon believe that chuchuhuasi is an aphrodisiac and tonic, and the bark soaked in the local sugarcane rum (aguardiente) is a popular jungle drink that is even served in bars and to tourists (often called "go-juice" to relieve pain and muscle aches and to "keep going" during long treks in the rainforest). Local healers and curanderos in the Amazon use chuchuhuasi as a general tonic, to speed healing and, when combined with other medicinal plants, as a synergist for many types of illnesses. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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| By analogy, I recently heard a lecturer complain that his country of Nepal does not want tourists, but his country does need tourists' money. The tourists transport the money. As a result, he said, there are three main religions in Nepal now: Hinduism, Buddhism, and Tourism. The tourist is the protective carrier of the money; he comes into the country and drops off the money. That's how a preservative antioxidant carries, protects, and drops off the actual vitamin nutrient into the body. But from a commercial standpoint, the idea of "synergists" is not so desirable. |
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