Word: juan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should have jumped. But it has declined steadily to $223 million last year. So far this year, it is running an estimated 7% below 1970. Prospects are even bleaker for the summer season, normally a busy period for Puerto Rican tourism. The once crowded, palm-fringed beaches near San Juan hotels are now lightly used and cluttered with litter; some are badly polluted. Warning signs along the Condado Lagoon tell swimmers to stay away...
Bellhopping Mad. The casinos are also quiet. To attract customers, El San Juan, El Conquistador and other hotels offer gambling junkets from the mainland, some including free fares or rooms. That practice was formerly frowned on by Puerto Rican government officials fearful of drawing too many professional gamblers and underworld figures...
Several hotels have closed or soon will do so. El Miramar and Le Petit Miramar shut down last summer. In March, the 52-year-old Condado Beach, San Juan's oldest luxury hotel, was closed with startling suddenness; guests arriving for breakfast were told by desk clerks to clear out immediately. Carrying their own luggage-the bellhops had been dismissed-the tourists tramped...
...June, when Hilton International ends operations there. The Dorado Hilton's owners, International Investment Co., got a promise of a $500,000 loan from the Puerto Rican government to help refurbish the hotel; they hope to reopen it in December. In addition, the government plans to buy San Juan's exclusive but ailing Racquet Club Hotel for $4,500,000 and turn part of it into a hotel school. El Convento Hotel is $4,000,000 in debt and faces a grim future...
...tourism in Puerto Rico has been crimped by the U.S. recession and competition from cheap group-rate air fares to Europe. Another factor is the increasing violence in the fight between proponents and opponents of Puerto Rican independence from the U.S. When urban guerrillas bombed seven stores in San Juan one night last month, 1,400 conventioneering pharmacists were persuaded to remain only after police and politicians gave them assurances of protection...