Tourism (1983: Doomsday)

Tourism is travel for pleasure; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. This act may be done internationally or within the country. Tourism can be domestic or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments. Today, tourism is a major source of income for many countries, and affects the economy of both the source and host countries, in some cases being of vital importance.

After Doomsday, the tourism industry came to a standstill from the 1980s to the early 2000s - at the time when contact was reestablished with the surviving states of the world.

Pre-Doomsday
Around the world, there were millions of tourists visiting the famous landmarks and vacation spots. In the United States alone, the famous tourist cities included New York City, Washington D.C., Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Dallas, St. Louis, and Las Vegas. These cities were famous for their iconic landmarks that defined American culture (freedom, liberty, capitalism, money, technology, amusement parks, etc.) and hence were flocked by millions of tourists annually. Across the Atlantic Ocean, the famous tourist cities was in London, England and Paris, France, which was famous for its rich history and iconic landmarks such as the Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and the Eiffel Tower. In other parts of the world, tourists mainly visited the famous beaches along islands in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and parts of the Indian Ocean. Some tourists chose to go on a nature trip to the jungles of South America and to the safaris of Africa.

Doomsday
The weekend of September 25-26, 1983, would change the tourism industry forever. Most of the world's famous cities were destroyed in the nuclear war, bringing in with it the iconic landmarks and billions of people, including tourists. In areas not affected by the nuclear fire, the foreign tourists would become stranded in what would seem like to be forever. This was seen in the Caribbean islands where majority of the American, Canadian, British, French and other tourists had to indefinitely stay in the islands they were in for contact was lost with their homeland. In some cases, things turned ugly when tourists incited riots in the country, particularly in Egypt when majority of the Western tourists stormed embassies of communist countries. Tourists in South America, Africa, Asia, and in Australia had the same experience. It would then appear as if the areas they were stranded in would be their new permanent home.

Post-Doomsday
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Tourism Today
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