It will be hard to get repeat customers, but...

posted Friday, 9 May 2008

Tourism is one of the fastest growing "industries" in the world, with special niche markets such as eco-tourism, "creative tourism," and adventure tourism springing up and growing like weeds--really interesting weeds that you want to go see.

Listening to NPR today, the woman talking said "tourism" with a strange accent that made it sound like "terrism."

Well, in a world now facing terrorism as one of its biggest threats, it seems that a new sort of tourism is almost inevitable: call it "terrism" or, as I prefer, "tourerism." I can already picture the brochures being handed out to would-be suicide bombers:

See historic sites--blow them up!

Meet interesting people--inflict fear and suffering on them!

See the world--before leaving it behind forever!

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