More Leisure! is the universal battle cry of the region’s governmental economic planners. Irrespective of presence or absence of oil revenues or the varying states of their knowledge economies, most countries in Asia Minor and North Africa have plans for making tourism produce more income and more jobs in the coming 10 to 15 years. The ambitions run so high that many countries want to increase the influx of foreign visitors two, four, or even six and tenfold by the century’s third decade. Countries like Tunisia and Turkey have already succeeded in staking good claims as easy venues for quick-grill-in-the-sun (and a bit of culture garnish) visits by European herd travelers. Backed by ample supplies of shorelines, new and mostly self-contained resort projects, and natural hospitality of their people, at least half the region’s countries appear eager to “emulate” the sunshine tourism model or create niche tourism destinations. As home
