Prague is a highly romanticized city and some tourist agencies also romanticize the radical revival that the city has undergone in the past eleven years. Much of this revival can be attributed to the booming tourism industry that has recently developed. There are some dramatic comparisons of the Charle's Bridge before ("with one sole man looking over the edge into the gray, misty river") to today when hundreds and thousands of tourists crowd this same bridge each day. Because Prague was not destroyed during the World Wars, it makes a very attractive tourist destination and this tourism helped westernize and de-communize Prague rapidly. Tourism is encouraged and tourists are invited into Prague today. There are numerous web sites, pamphlets and maps inviting visitors and making arrangements easy to go about. Tourist agencies advertise Prague as a place where everyone goes, rather than an out-of-the-way spot for more adventurous travellers. In one pamphlet, someone is quoted saying: "In the main tourist season it may happen that you will come across almost no local residents in Prague - only processions of foreigners, strolling with their guides through the attractive city routes and people working in tourism."