Word: intourist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glasnost, officials have at last decided to introduce new maps of Moscow, which will include about 90% of the city's streets. The revised maps come just in time. Warming relations between East and West have brought a flood of visitors. U.S. travel to the Soviet Union with Intourist has doubled since 1984, to more than 75,000 visitors last year. The number would be higher but for the shortage of hotel space. Though the new maps are welcome, old habits die hard. Tourists renting cars still receive only partial route guides, which omit the roads to cities that...
After customs we were transported to Hotel Intourist in the heart of Moscow. After checking in, and eating dinner, we walked to Red Square to telephone refuseniks, and make plans for the following...
...morning on Tuesday, my Intourist escort promptly picked me up at the hotel and drove me to the train station. By then, the thrill of being a stranger land had dissipated...
...INTOURIST, the "Soviet travel agency, shuttles its Western patrons from the S.M. Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet to the Leningrad State Circus. These organized tours will also insure that you saunter through the resplendent gardens of the Winter and Summer Palaces. And don't miss Hotel Leningrad's dinner menu; it boasts an infinite list of succulent foods and wines...
...adventure" was to last only four days, and because of the brevity of my visit, I chose to bypass the sights which Intourist strongly recommended. I never did purchase a ballet or circus ticket, and I walked past the opulent department store--for those with Western currency only, thank you--on Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrad's business district...