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Consider this: all of India receives just the same number of visitors in a year as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. According to A.R. Ghanashyam, India’s Deputy Consul General based in New York, India receives just five million international tourists per year, most of them making predictable journeys to tourist icons like the Taj Mahal.

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How about spending a Labor Day weekend out of the country? It’s easier than you might expect. A few years ago, Palm Springs, California-based travel writer and hospitality industry consultant Pam Price couldn’t resist the opportunity to go to Australia—even though what for many people would be the trip of a lifetime for her lasted one weekend.

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Concerned with a decline in the number of international travelers visiting the United States, New York City is launching a welcome program meant to polish the city’s image and greet tourists before they leave the airport, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday.

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It’s the catch phrase of the gourmet traveler: “You haven’t tasted real oysters (substitute tzatiki , pad Thai) until you’ve tried them on Jersey (substitute Santorini, Ko Samui). But it’s true: Although we have access to international food in our big-city restaurants, nothing compares to going straight to the source.

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