MEDIA TOUR Issue 1 | Page 16

BUSINESS By Gwokyalya Agatha Minting the hub of history 16 The tourism business in the United States is at its peak. Tourism does not only happen in the outskirts of the city but also happens in the city centres like Washington DC and New York City. N ew York City. Tours compa- nies in the city are vigilant mostly in transportation around the city well known as the hop on hop off bus companies. The companies offer detailed informa- tion about all the tourist attraction stops in the city which amount to over 30 stops. Tourist attractions in the city are more of parks, memori- al grounds, monuments, museums, business centres and many more. Furthermore, other companies also utilize the tourism business sector very well as they have tours in their company premises. For example NBC studios as an out- standing media company in the history of media also have a paid tour session with tour guides who take the tourists through the dif- ferent sections of the studios and showing how their broadcasting goes on. The tour guides provide sufficient information on every tour stop and about the well-recognized individuals in the NBC public. An- other example are universities, they also have planned campus tours which are booked in advance. Even though the university tours are not paid for, they add something into the tourism sector of the states they are located in. Due to the hyped tours that bring together people from all over the world, there are so many shops and stalls that sell souvenirs of tourist attractions in a given state respec- tively. For example in New York city the souvenir stores and stalls sell items of the statue of liberty, gift cards with the pictures of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges well lit in the night, and so on. The most noticeable thing on all the various tours is that all places hold their history intact. which re- flects a lot on their past and shows where they have come from and where they are heading to in terms of development. The USA holds most of their history intact for tour- ist attraction as opposed to Kenya and Uganda. 17