Results tagged “tourism”

• Chatham officials have closed South Beach to swimming indefinitely after three more great white sharks were spotted today. One was just 100 yards from the sand. [Boston Globe]

• Is it possible that shark sightings are good for the Cape's tourism industry? [Wicked Local]

• Let's hear it for global warming! Woo-hoo! [WHDH]

• Yes, it's hot. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) is reminding citizens how to beat the heat. [WCVB]

• Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray is at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester possibly because of the summer heat. [MyFoxBoston.com]

• Bostonist found people who enjoy the heat: Owners of businesses who depend on tourism. [Cape Cod Times]

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As the summer tourism season begins, the blog Armagideon Time reminds us that Boston has long been a choice destination for the eccentric and the little. , Winsor McCay's masterpiece of proto-surrealist storytelling, landed in Boston once, for the duration of one 1911 page. Little Nemo and crew checked out the sights, got acquainted with the "Pee Tree," and mistreated their racist caricature of a friend. more ›