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Economical jet travel has helped lift the demand for accommodations so rapidly that hotelmen in many countries are swamped with business. Without much exaggeration, French National Tourist officials insist that not a single hotel room will be available in Paris until after October's auto show. London hotels are so packed that companies in need of space for executives cozy up to room clerks by treating them to elaborate lunches. Greek hotelmen are braced for a 30% increase in tourism this summer. The lure of Expo 70 has not only jammed Japanese hostelries, but contributed to a squeeze...
...this demand is most apparent in Europe. Five new hotels will open in London this year; another 30 are due to transform the city's skyline by 1975. Amsterdam is adding 50% to its hotel capacity. In France, where 60% of the hotel space was built before 1914, hotelmen foresee a spurt of construction in Paris and along the Cote d'Azur. The Soviet Union opened a new hotel for foreign tourists this spring at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, will open a second in Leningrad this summer, and is putting up three more in Moscow...
There were some other difficulties. Inaugural Chairman J. Willard Marriott pleaded with Washington hotelmen not to raise rates during the festivities; unknown to him, his own Marriott Motor Hotels had hiked the price of a double room by 20%, to $30 a night...
...while faced with thousands of milling people, the police could sort out the four groups and could then apply the appropriate kinds of restraint? You must be dreaming. You say that no one "could have known which windows [thrown objects] came from." No trick at all when you ask hotelmen to spot for you, as the police did. You are also casual about thrown objects that start from the fifteenth floor; they strike hard, and it is homicidal to throw them...
...Other hotelmen greeted the news with amusement. "Oh, that sounds naughty," said an official of San Francisco's Mark Hopkins when he heard that the New York Hilton, Manhattan's biggest hotel, was going to rent out its rooms on an hourly basis...