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Article: Corpus Christi methodically builds tourism industry
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- September 9, 1998
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- The world surely is wide enough to hold a
few more tourist attractions, and this city of 400,000 people has
tried mightily to fit the bill.
And why not? After all, other U.S. cities have fashioned
successful tourist industries by virtue of natural setting, vision or
sometimes good luck.
These include Branson, Mo., a year-round country music capital;
Tunica, Miss., a town that is climbing out of rank poverty with
glitzy hotels and glitzier gambling casinos; and such shopping meccas
as Potomac Mills outlet mall in Dale City, Va., which draws more
tourists than Colonial Williamsburg. Then there is Newport, Ore.,
where the arrival of Keiko the whale (of Free Willy fame) ...