Palestinians aim to push tourism beyond Bethlehem FEATURE 02/14/2010

Palestinians aim to push tourism beyond Bethlehem FEATURE 02/14/2010 BETHLEHEM — For your next getaway, you might consider this: four nights and five days in sunny “Palestine: Land of miracles.” It’s a tough sell for a place that has become synonymous with Middle East violence, for a country not yet a country which does not even control all of its territory, let alone its major tourist attractions. And yet the figures are up for the third year running. Palestinian tourism ministry records show that some 2.6 million tourists visited the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2009.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100214com3.html

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