While the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is in transition from an industrial to a service-based economy, the rest of Cape Breton Island outside of the industrial area surrounding Sydney-Glace Bay has been more stable, with a mixture of fishing, forestry, small-scale agriculture, and tourism.

While the tourism and industrial fishing industries were on a roll in the late 1990s, the traditional plantation economy atrophied.

While some Chinatowns are focused on commercial tourism, others are actual living and working communities ; many are in fact a synergetic synthesis of both.

While trapping, hunting, and fishing continue to be the main economic activities in this traditional community, efforts have been made to develop tourism as well.

While the official languages are Catalan and Spanish, other major languages like English, Italian, German, French and Dutch can also be heard extensively in the summer due to mass tourism.

While such exploitation is non-consumptive, it can have deleterious effects that need careful management to protect both the birds and the tourism.

While the old trades of fishing and boat building have been abandoned, the island's rich cultural heritage and pastoral scenery has led to a flourishing tourism industry.

While the city is no centre of tourism, it does have various interesting sights and opportunities for recreation.

While visitor numbers grew to around 700, 000, by 2005, and partly due to the negative impact on US tourism of 9 / 11, visitor numbers at Graceland had reportedly declined to around 600, 000 due to the rough surrounding neighborhood.

While tourism plays a large part of the town's economy, wine, asparagus and sea salt are also important staples.

While Scotland County is the smallest county in the state of North Carolina ( 100 out of 100 ), it ranks 63rd in generating tourism dollars.

While still an entertaining town with an enjoyable atmosphere, locals and tourists alike would agree that it has lost its " anything goes " mentality which it had once acquired, a mindset that was dangerous to tourists, locals, and the tourism industry as a whole.

While there is some tourism at the village, Norwegian authorities limit the access to the outpost to minimise impact on the scientific work.

While antiques tourism occurs year round, New Market holds two annual festivals that highlight the town's historic past.

While nowadays, tourism makes up an important part of its industry.

While the park's arrival benefited Gatlinburg and made many of the town's residents wealthy, the tourism explosion led to problems with air quality and urban sprawl.

While the area's largest employer is Casino Rama, overall economic activity in Orillia is a mixture of many different industries including manufacturing, government services, customer service and tourism.

While the Lacandón have recently seen an influx of outside influence with the coming of roads, logging, tourism, and other modernizations, it is important to recognize that they have had contact with outsiders throughout their history.

While mining continues on a small scale, tourism and logging are now the area's major industries.

While tourism is starting to contribute to the economy of Lesotho, and more people are moving permanently into Highlands there, seasonal migration still augments this trend.

While tourism is the mainstay of Penglai ’ s economy, reportedly bringing more than two million tourists annually, in fact the entire center of the town ( around the harbour ) was walled off and completely razed in 2006.

While the region ’ s economy is predominantly agri-based, it is now developing into a center for agro-industrial business, trade and tourism.

While other forts were built nearby in later years, the site of Fort William Henry lay abandoned, and formed part of the landscape for tourism in the 19th century.

While Fiordland as such remained one of the least-explored areas of New Zealand up to the 20th century, Milford Sound's natural beauty soon attracted national and international renown, and led to the discovery of the Mackinnon Pass in 1888, soon to become a part of the new Milford Track, an early walking tourism trail.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.

While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.

While perhaps lightly competing against each other, they will present a unified front ( sometimes called a trade association or industry trade group ) to the government in requesting subsidies or aid or regulation.

While the Switcheroonie was a one-time publicity stunt, for one artist to take over a feature from its originator is an old tradition in newspaper cartooning ( as it is in the comic book industry ).

While several fantasy businesses had migrated to the internet in the mid-1990s, the watershed era for online fantasy sports was in 1997 when two web sites made their debut that forever changed the fantasy sports industry: Commissioner. com and RotoNews. com.

While there have been recent improvements in the fishing industry, it is still relatively undeveloped.

While cod was formerly the main catch, today the industry centers on cold-water shrimp and Greenland halibut.

While breaking into the film industry in the summer of 1916, Hawks also unsuccessfully attempted to transfer to Stanford University, and then returned to Cornell in September 1916.

While the U. S. action was still pending, the record industry commenced proceedings against Sharman on its home turf.

While serving as prime minister during the 1940s, Didi nationalized the fish export industry.

* Diversification: While this may hedge a company against a downturn in an individual industry it fails to deliver value, since it is possible for individual shareholders to achieve the same hedge by diversifying their portfolios at a much lower cost than those associated with a merger.

While reducing the cargo reshipment rates for New Zealand industry, this is seen by some as a heavy blow for local competitors, who, specialised in coastal shipping only, are less able to achieve the costs savings of large lines – these can generally operate profitably even without cargo on New Zealand-internal legs of their routes, and are thus able to underbid others.

While Abdul took a break from the music industry, she remained busy behind the scenes.

While the terms may differ from industry to industry, the actual stages typically follow common steps to problem solving —" defining the problem, weighing options, choosing a path, implementation and evaluation.

While he vied with any man in industry, prudence, wisdom, and courage, he excelled most men in simplicity of tastes, constancy of attachments, kindly playfulness, magnanimity, and mercy.

While industry remained largely state-controlled, Lenin acknowledged that the NEP was a necessary capitalist measure for a country unripe for socialism.

: While living standards have improved for many, a large number of persons has been pushed to the margin of economic activity especially in the areas which once depended heavily on the banana industry for a livelihood.

While usability is not mandated by federal regulations, it has become a best practice in government and industry.

While most of his writing has been oriented towards the computer industry, he has also written a few books relating to his other interests.

While its critics have questioned its feasibility, proponents argue that applications in industry, biology and human sciences research have already proven the validity of the original concept.

While attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Romero embarked upon his career in the film industry.

While the basic duties of toxicologists are to determine the effects of chemicals on organisms and their surroundings, specific job duties may vary based on industry and employment.

** While waiting at a bus stop, Ralph Baer an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.