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To: elmatador who wrote (61109)	3/17/2005 11:58:33 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>No alcohol. Women covered? I think people will still prefer Brazil<< They're probably angling for the Muslim tourists. Maybe they'll build a replica of Mecca.

To: elmatador who wrote (61109)	3/17/2005 3:12:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<//Iran plans US$ 30 billion investment in tourism infrastructure// No alcohol. Women covered? I think people will still prefer Brazil :-)> ElM, while I'm sure it's a lot of fun for some tourists to negotiate their lives with murderous Brazilian bandits and being conned into their traps with gorgeous young Brazilian women, some of us prefer a more sedate tourist life with alcohol not even relevant and young women not the main point. In the northern summer, I would quite like to go and stay in Iran on the coast or somewhere nice. I quite like the fact that thieves and other criminals live in fear, more so than their victims, who can generally live a life without being robbed and assaulted. My brother tells me Saudi Arabian shopkeepers wander away, leaving their tills unattended and people don't rob them. Would that be true in Brazil? I'll be a tourist to Iran before Brazil [I expect] though Iran might be a life-shortening experience for English speaking foreigners at the moment. They would probably assume that I am American, or British, or Australian and being racists, would deem that sufficient cause to murder me, or at least gaol me for a decade or so. Actually, they might not need to spend $30 billion. If they open their economy up to foreigners, I'll spend my own money to buy a place, which I could rent out to other tourists when I'm not there. That process would turbocharge their economy without them spending anything - some roads might be nice and an international airport, but even those could be foreign-funded toll roads, and airports can be built and run by foreigners too. Mqurice