With domestic tourists as numerous as overseas visitors, there are many reasons for keeping those memories alive, Felipe said.

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Home Inns, a budget hotel chain which caters to the new army of travelling businessmen as well as to domestic tourists, has grown from one hotel in 2004 to nearly 1, 000 today.

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Spokesman Mark Di-Toro goes so far as to say that Blackpool is among the top 40 or 50 locations for foreign visitors but admits that "it's not that well known abroad as yet - there's been a lot of regeneration and it's an area we do promote but mainly for domestic tourists".

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"There has been a lot of improvement in Rio but there is still a lot more to be done in terms of security, mainly more preventive actions, alerting tourists both foreign and domestic of the precautions they should take, neighborhoods to avoid, " he said.

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Presently, more than 80% of tourists visiting Las Vegas are domestic.

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Having been dropped for the summer series against Pakistan to rediscover a bit of form at domestic level, he was unsurprisingly named in England's side after the tourists had won the toss.

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Busloads of tourists give the scene a surreal commercial streak, while apartment blocks lend a domestic touch here and there.

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