Professional: Souvenirs All Around
Perhaps most of them are useless kitsches but travelers simply love them. Souvenir shopping is an important part of many peoples’ vacations. What kind of products tourists buy? Where are the fantastic souvenirs produced anyway?
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An Ode to Souvenirs: Sentimental Journey
Souvenirs can be collectibles, trophies, and kitsch at its kitschiest. But mostly they're reminders of good times.
Souvenirs and Shopping in Egypt
The Egyptians have had a tourist industry for over 4000 years. Trade with the Mediterranean civilizations and movement of the ancient Egyptians up and down the Nile to visit temples probably resulted in some souvenirs.
Made in Ukraine?
Why do we see this inscription on our souvenirs less often? A Ukrainian gift shop recently opened in Kyiv. Here you can buy a gift or another beautiful thing, and all merchandise originates from Ukraine. This shop, it turns out, is one of few in the capital and elsewhere in Ukraine because selling and making Ukrainian souvenirs is not a profitable business.
Entrepreneur’s Tide Comes in with Beach Souvenirs
The little souvenir bottle filled with seashells and sand that you brought back to Milwaukee from Sanibel Island may have made a round trip. That’s because your keepsake, which evokes memories of golden days on the beach, could have been made by Visionary Products, a Glendale company that does a million-dollar business in beach bubble ornaments, starfish-wearing sunglasses and trinket boxes topped with mermaids.
Mackinac Island: Tourists Want To Stretch Dollars
With the economy in the dumps across the U.S., gift and souvenir shop owners are seeing changes in their businesses, although perhaps not in the ways people might expect. Patty Schoenborn of Birches on Market Street on Mackinac Island says her tea sets are still one of the store's most popular items.
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