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UC in Crete: Blazing New Trail for Backwaters-Turned-Boomtowns

October 1, 2003

Towns in Crete were once backwaters for Greece's annual flood of 10 million tourists. Now, the island's once-traditional communities are tourist boomtowns being loved to death. The cure: a University of Cincinnati applied research team that is just back from its fourth summer dedicated to changing the face and pace of tourism.