chapped lips asked:


Alternative State Slogans

Alternative State Slogans

Alabama: Yes, We Have Electricity

Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can’t Be Wrong!

Arizona: But It’s A Dry Heat

Arkansas: Literacy Ain’t Everything

California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda

Colorado: If You Don’t Ski, Don’t Bother

Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy’s Don’t Own It Yet

Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water

Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids

Georgia: We Put The “Fun” In Fundamentalist Extremism

Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha’ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, But
Leave Your Money)

Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes … Well Okay, We’re Not, But The
Potatoes Sure

Illinois: Please Don’t Pronounce the “S”

Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free

Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn

Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States

Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names

Louisiana: We’re Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That’s Our Tourism
Campaign

Maine: We’re Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster

Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It

Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden’s (For Most Tax
Brackets)

Michigan: First Line Of Defense From The Canadians

Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes … And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes

Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State

Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work

Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies, And
Very Little Else

Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest

Nevada: Whores and Poker!

New Hampshire: Go Away And Leave Us Alone

New Jersey: You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right
Here!

New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent Pets

New York: You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To
An Attorney …

North Carolina: Tobacco Is A Vegetable

North Dakota: We Really Are One Of The 50 States!

Ohio: At Least We’re Not Michigan

Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only No Singing

Oregon: Spotted Owl … It’s What’s For Dinner

Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal

Rhode Island: We’re Not REALLY An Island

South Carolina: Remember The Civil War? We Didn’t Actually Surrender

South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota

Tennessee: The Educashun State

Texas: Si’ Hablo Ing’les (Yes, I Speak English)

Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus

Vermont: Yep

Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don’t Mix?

Washington: Help! We’re Overrun By Nerds And Slackers!

Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor?

West Virginia: One Big Happy Family … Really!

Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese

Wyoming: Where Men Are Men … and the sheep are scared !!!

MaC asked:


I am going to San Diego and Los Angeles for 2 weeks and then I Would like to go to another state in USA to do tourism.

Should I go to Arizona, Utah? Where should I go?

muellerdavidallen asked:


Modern day slavery also known as “human trafficking.” Traffickers look for individuals who are poor, unemployed, or families that are in high debt, mainly women and children in certain countries. Victims are convinced with false promises of a good job and a better way of living, and then forced to work under abusive and inhuman conditions. Victims of trafficking are brought into the system through several means. Most victims of trafficking today come from three populations. First, parents may sell children to traffickers in order to pay off debts or gain income. Second, runaways or other displaced persons may be picked up by traffickers. Third, people who are seeking entry to other countries may be picked up by traffickers, and typically are misled into thinking that they will be free after being smuggled across the border.
Definitions may very base upon that cultural variation of the crime. In the United States, when people think of human trafficking, they often refer to the illegal practice of migrant smuggling. They picture illegal immigrants from countries like Mexico or China arriving into the United States by way of freight trailer or cargo boat in search for job opportunities and freedom. Human trafficking is defined as sex trafficking in which commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or in which the person forced to perform such an act is under 18.
The recruitment, transportation, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force or fraud, for the purpose of subjecting that person to involuntary hard labor, high debts owed, or slavery. Men, women, and children worldwide were bought, sold, transported, and held against their will in unsafe and abusive conditions. Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing forms of commerce and crime throughout the world. While men, women, and children are trafficked throughout many countries into forced labor situations in sweatshops and agricultural sites, the majority of victims are women and children trafficking into the sex trade for the purpose of prostitution, sex tourism, pornography and other sexual services. Most recent Department of States estimates indicate that 700,000 to million women and children are trafficked each year across the world, 50,000 of them into and within the United States (Chauang, J., 2006). The International Organization for Migrations (IOM) estimate the rate could be much higher, stating that as many as two million men, women and children were trafficking across borders in 2001 (IOM website, 2003).
Illegal aliens look for the help of “traffickers” to be transporter into another country, mainly the United States. Traffickers, work in small, large, or highly organized groups, arranging for everything from transportation to fake identification, visas, passports and work documents for the aliens. While the conditions of transportation may be unknown, “smuggled” aliens knowingly and willingly enter the destination country to work or find work, they agree to being smuggled. However, a smuggling relationship may allow the opportunity for the smuggler to alter the relationship to trafficking. Persons who seek the help of smugglers often become victims of trafficking, in the destination country or en route. When victims have never consented to being smuggled are either kidnapped or deceived with false employment offers. Traffickers make a profit between seven billion and ten billion dollars a year globally, and it is know as the third largest source of illicit trade, behind guns and narcotics. According to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, the intelligence community predicts that revenue from trafficking “will outstrip the illicit trade in guns and narcotics within a decade.” (Chauang, J., 2006).

History
Early trafficking efforts focused on white slavery. In 1904, the International Agreement for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic was created, although very few countries signed it. In the following decades, the focus on trafficking continued to be on women and children who were sold into prostitution. The first concerted international effort to combat trafficking came in 1949, with the U.N. Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. Like other such conventions before it, the document focused on the trafficking of women and children for prostitution. The U.S. at the same time was undertaking its own efforts to combat global human trafficking. In 2000, Congress passed the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (also referred to as the Trafficking Victims Protection Act), the first U.S. law to comprehensively address the various aspects of human trafficking. The act included measures to help those who were trafficked and to increase punishment for traffickers, as well as to bolster other countries’ efforts against trafficking. President Bill Clinton (D, 1993-2000) signed the act in October 2000, hailing it as “the most significant step we’ve ever taken to secure the health and safety of women at home and around the world.” With regard to dealing with those who have been trafficked, the law represented a turnaround in policy. Previously, those found working illicitly were treated as criminals. The 2000 act changed that, treating those people as victims of a crime and seeking to help rather than punish them. Under the act, victims can be given a special visa, called a T-visa, allowing them to stay in the U.S. for up to three years if they would face hardship upon deportation. In return, the victims agree to assist in the investigation and prosecution of the traffickers. (As of March 2004, 448 victims of trafficking had been granted a T-visa.) The U.S. has also cracked down on Americans who may contribute to trafficking abroad. For example, Congress has passed legislation under which Americans who travel overseas to frequent child prostitutes, known as “sex tourism,” can be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. And the Defense Department has also established a “zero tolerance” policy toward U.S. servicemen who may contribute to human trafficking overseas. In addition, individual states have also begun to pass human trafficking legislation. Texas and Washington State were the first two states to pass such legislation, and Arizona and California are considering similar legislation.

Reference
Chuang, J. “Beyond a snapshot: Preventing human trafficking in the global economy.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 2006, pg. 137.
International Organization for Migration, 2006. http://www.iom.int/jahia/jsp/index.jsp.

Shinji X asked:


I am building up a small tourism company in México and I want to find a low-investment medium-profit solution for promoting it. It is based in México but it aims International BagPackers. How to promote it internationally?

Paulina G asked:


In the state of arizona does the career of tourism exist? In some university? thank you…

vinubaba asked:


june 15 - 20th approximately. pls reply with recommendations along with lodging info.

Enigma asked:


Migration and tourism also have carried new strains of the virus across national borders, even into the United States, which had largely wiped out the disease after a 1922 outbreak that infected a half-million people.

Mexico has been struggling with an alarming increase in the deadly hemorrhagic form of dengue, which now accounts for roughly one in four cases. The government has confirmed 3,249 cases of hemorraghic dengue for the year through Sept. 15, up from 1,924 last year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070929/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/dengue_epidemic

http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/DVBID/DENGUE/
http://www.cdc.gov/NCIDOD/DVBID/DENGUE/dengue-qa.htm
Q. How are dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) spread?
A. Dengue is transmitted to people by the bite of an Aedes mosquito that is infected with a dengue virus. The mosquito becomes infected with dengue virus when it bites a person who has dengue or DHF and after about a week can transmit the virus while biting a healthy person. Dengue cannot be spread directly from person to person.

Ragi asked:


I am just going for a couple of days for tourism.
I forgot to mention that I am an Albanian citizen and my passport is Albanian.

sanchito1313 asked:


If we annex Mexico they get the rights and freedom they seek. we get the taxes theyve dodged, tourism money, oil, and we can fix thier corrupt govrnment by replacint it with our corrupt government
mexico would be the next 30 states in the 80 states. And make no mistake i love mexico (the place not the gov.) if it wasn’t for pancho villa and mexicos gun laws i would live in the yucatan

art_raiders asked:


Ariz. losing ritzy tourists from Mexico

Chris Hawley
Republic Mexico City Bureau
Oct. 25, 2006 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY - The Ciclope Travel Agency sits in the middle of Polanco, one of Mexico City’s toniest neighborhoods. There’s a Prada clothing store two blocks down the street, and a Rolls Royce dealership just beyond that.

People who live here would be perfectly at home golfing in Scottsdale or unwinding at a spa in Sedona. But few ever do.

“Nobody wants to go to Arizona, except to change planes on their way to Las Vegas,” said Adina Gutiérrez, a travel agent at Ciclope.

The number of Mexican tourists flying in to Arizona, the highly desirable “traditional” tourists as opposed to shoppers from Sonora, has dropped from 82,000 in 2002 to 42,000 in 2005. The number of tour operators offering Arizona packages has plummeted from 37 to 18 in the same period, according to the Office of Tourism.

Even the number of day-trippers, Mexicans who cross the
Arizona border to shop or dine, has dropped 19 percent since 2002. The 2005 figure of 20.8 million crossings was the lowest in at least a decade, and 2006 is looking even worse, said Alberta Charney, an economist at the University of Arizona.

It’s still unclear if the decline has hurt Arizona businesses, since the amount of money spent by each traveler may have increased, Charney said. In 2001, she conducted a survey that showed cross-border visitors spent $962.9 million in the state.

But the drop in fly-in tourists is a setback because each one spends 14 times more money in Arizona than the day-trippers, and because the Arizona Office of Tourism spends $412,000 a year trying to attract them. The money goes toward advertising, seminars for Mexican travel agents, junkets for Mexican journalists, and running a small office in Polanco.

Sky Harbor Airport spends another $150,000 trying to encourage airlines and travelers to fly into Phoenix.

The decline in tourists has come
has come even as Arizona’s immigrant population is booming.

Tourism officials blame the decline on a lack of direct flights, along with media coverage of the efforts to fortify the Arizona border. Many Mexicans now equate Arizona with border deaths, fences, National Guard deployments and groups like the Minutemen, who are known in the Mexico press as “migrant hunters.”

“Arizona has had its fair share of unfavorable press because of some of the things that are happening along our border,” said Margie Zimmerman, director of the Office of Tourism.

Another problem is a lack of air service. US Airways has only one direct flight between its Phoenix hub and Mexico City, the wealthiest part of the country. It has no flights connecting the affluent northern city of Monterrey.

Tourism officials are hoping interest in Arizona will rise now that Aeromexico is offering Mexico City-Phoenix flights. They began on Oct. 6.

But travel agents are doubtful. Most Mexicans use travel
packages, and the wholesalers who assemble those deals concentrate on places like Chicago, New York, Florida and Las Vegas.

In a recent copy of Expo-Mayoristas, a biweekly catalog of packages consulted by Mexican travel agents, not a single wholesaler was offering an Arizona package.

“Arizona has these breakfasts where they invite travel agents to learn about their state, but it’s an absurd waste of money because if you don’t have packages at a good price, people won’t buy them,” said Eugenia Vadillo, an agent at El Corte Inglés Travel in Polanco.