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Summer brought to you by: Orlando theme parks

by Renata Sago
Jul 3, 2018
How did this hot and sunny middle Florida city become such a theme park magnet? And how does it keep the tourists coming in the summer months?
In this handout image provided by Disney Parks, fireworks light the sky over Cinderella Castle during the Grand Opening of New Fantasyland at Walt Disney World Resort December 6, 2012 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
Gene Duncan/Disney Parks via Getty Images
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How storm chasers turn tornadoes into tourist attractions

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Jun 28, 2018
A growing industry is offering a front row seat to extreme weather.
Dylan Johnson for Marketplace
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What North Korea looks like with capitalism "creeping in"

by Kai Ryssdal and Maria Hollenhorst
Jun 1, 2018
In 2016, writer Travis Jeppesen became the first American to study at a North Korean university.
Men push their bicycles past portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang in 2017.
ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images
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Amsterdam moves to curb disruptive tourism

by John Laurenson
May 28, 2018
While the city of Amsterdam only has a population of around 850,000 people, it gets around 18 million visitors each year. That has consequences for the quality of life of the people who live there. To curb the worst effects for local people the city authorities are adopting some new measures, like limiting the number of days […]
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A rise in foreign industrial trawlers off the coast of Senegal is causing local fishermen to lose their livelihoods

by Lucia Benavides
Apr 19, 2018
West Africa loses $1.3 billion a year as a result of illegal fishing from foreign trawlers. Senegal, the country hardest hit, loses $300 million a year, or 2 percent of its GDP.
A beach in Dakar is full of unused pirogues, or wooden fishing boats. Senegal loses an estimated $300 million a year as a result of competition from foreign industrial trawlers that fish off its coast.
Photo courtesy of Zach Campbell
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Tourists may be back in the Florida Keys, but some residents still haven't recovered from Hurricane Irma

by Nancy Klingener
Apr 18, 2018
Local governments in the Florida Keys have spent almost $150 million so far cleaning up after Hurricane Irma.
Patrick Garvey with his dog, Bella, who rode out Hurricane Irma in the Keys with him. Garvey and Bella are living in a camper on the Grimal Grove property while his wife and twin 4-year-old daughters are staying with family in Brazil.
Nancy Klingener/ for Marketplace
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Civil rights tourism sees more demand and destinations

by Renata Sago
Jan 12, 2018
From new attractions in Atlanta to a U.S. Civil Rights Trail, tourism around civil rights history is growing.
Tom Houck runs a three-hour in-depth civil rights tour in Atlanta. It's one of several across the South.
Renata Sago/Marketplace
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Paris takes steps to become a more pedestrian-friendly city

by John Laurenson
Oct 2, 2017
As Paris becomes more pedestrian-friendly, suburban commuters who depend on their cars and some businesses raise concerns.
A pedestrian zone in central Paris. The city is taking steps to become more pedestrian friendly.
John Laurenson/ for Marketplace
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Tourism on tribal land is a growing industry

by Marketplace Contributor
Jul 3, 2017
More people are traveling to Native American land for vacations. Tribal tourism is a $8.6 billion industry and growing.
More than 5 million people have visited Skywalk since it opened 10 years ago on the Hualapai Reservation. 
Carrie Jung
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What national monument status means for one vast Montana landscape

by Marketplace Contributor
Jun 22, 2017
The Upper Missouri River Breaks includes Native American sites, Old West settlements and tens of thousands of acres of privately owned land.
Rancher Matt Knox on his family land near Winifred, Montana. Knox is part of Missouri River Stewards, a group which wants the Trump Administration to reduce the size of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument and prevent further regulations on farms and ranches.
Dan Boyce
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