Travel: Kuwait Tours

Now that the Gulf War has ended, the world tourism industry is hoping to rescue business this year and some agents are even selling tours to war-shattered Kuwait. Some of the 3,900 exhibitors at Berlin’s 25th International Tourism Fair, the industry’s largest, see opportunities. “We’re now experiencing the ‘rubble effect,�’ said a Frankfurt travel agent. She said she had taken bookings from German tourists, inspired by a daily intake of war on their television screens, TO SEE BURNED-OUT IRAQI TANKS AND KUWAIT CITY for themselves. Tourism, especially in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, plunged in January when the allied coalition began its air offensive against Iraq.