1.   The first cover story for the airstrip was that a group of businessmen wanted to start up a tourist resort there.

2.   There are plans to turn the town into a tourist resort.

3.   Travel agencies have been talking the place up as a great new tourist resort.

4.   The area where the women were killed is a popular tourist resort.

5.   And an ever-increasing number of cranes above tourist resorts and cities led some here to joke that the country had a new national bird.

6.   At the self-contained tourist resorts on the north coast, scuba-diving classes carried on as normal.

7.   But the underlying economic worry is that standing pat will risk losing vacationers to land-based tourist resorts.

8.   EcoPeace chairman Dr. Magdi Allam reports that Egypt plans to build up to five tourist resorts on the Mediterranean coast, from El Arish to the Suez Canal.

9.   Electricity and water lines were cut throughout most of Sucre and the tourist resort of Margarita Island, where water was being rationed.

10.   English, along with German and French, is widely spoken in tourist resorts but not in the countryside.