Continue reading the main story Everyone I spoke to during my visits urged us to keep sending tourists

The Clash's breakthrough single is enough to start a housing crash and send tourists fleeing.

One day last week, youths pelted the building with stones and bottles, drawing fire from policemen and sending tourists scurrying for cover.

Germany has become Israel's second-largest trading partner, after the United States, and sends more tourists to Israel than any country except America.

On these stormy summer days it dances along the escarpment most afternoons, sending tourists to the Chalet picture window and everyone else scurrying for cover.

Space Adventures, the only company that sends tourists to space, has sent five of them so far.

Scooters, mopeds and other light vehicles do not require licenses for operation, so rental companies usually send tourists on their way when they say they are ready.

Mostly, I think sending tourists to orphanages or to work with children for two week stints can't be very good for the children, or the community.

Then came the automobile, air-conditioning, cheaper airplane fares and large shopping malls - all conspiring to send tourists elsewhere.

Rather than sending tourists to public shelters, two major hotels kept their occupants in the buildings during the storm's passage.