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Article: DANCE-ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES TANGOS ITS TROUBLES AWAY
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- March 7, 2003
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BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 7 (IPS) -- The Argentine capital is
shimmering this month as it hosts the Fifth Buenos Aires Tango
Festival and the first Tango Dance World Championship, a
competition that has drawn 260 couples from more than 20
countries.
Buenos Aires municipal authorities are estimating that the
Festival and dance competition have drawn 300,000 visitors from
within the country and abroad who will spend some $9 million
dollars in local shops, restaurants and hotels -- and the city's
dance halls.
The government of this economically stressed country hopes that
tango-related activities will turn the city into an attractive
travel destination, as the Rio de ...