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...state of euphoria. In 1950 some 32,000 tourists visited Nassau; in 1962 there were 438,000. In the same period, visitors to Jamaica jumped from about 74,000 to 223,000. The Virgin Islands' share rose from 15,000 in 1949 to 300,000 last year, Puerto Rico's from 65,000 to about 500,000. Looking to the future, Caribbean developers note with gratification that the average age of the winterized tourist is decreasing. Only five years ago, most tourists were in the 40-to 60-year-old group and from high-income levels. Both...
...PUERTO Rico. Air fare to San Juan is one of the world's greatest travel bargains - $57-75 for the 1>605 miles from New York City, $116 for the 2,225 rniles from Chicago-and the island's 3,435 sq. mi. offer something for everybody. The Miami-minded may wear their mink stoles in the air-conditioned lobbies of the razzle-dazzle hotels on the Condado strip, or lounge cheek by jowl beside the enormous swimming pools of the Caribe Hilton. They may gamble at La Concha and catch the Vegas-style girlie show...
...cliff on the northeastern tip of the island, uses an aerial tramway to ferry guests to and from the white-sand beach below. Villa Parguera, on the southwest shore, specializes in deep-sea fishing; El Barranquitas in the mountainous interior has a spectacular view and an excellent cuisine. Puerto Rico's finest hotel is the Dorado Beach, 20 miles west of San Juan, built by Laurance Rockefeller and spread out over 1,200 acres, which include a private airport and a championship golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones...
...VIRGIN ISLANDS. Many of the 1,500,000 passengers that stream through Puerto Rico's airport each year are bound to and from the Virgins, a cluster of tiny islands, the three largest of which were bought by the U.S. from Denmark in 1917. Principal Virgin is St. Thomas, whose harbor, Charlotte Amalie, is a free port, and hence the most popular stop for cruise ships in the Caribbean (tourists returning to the U.S. from the Virgins may also bring in $200 worth of purchases duty-free, instead of the regular $100 limit). St. Thomas has some spectacular...
...Ferreé brothers' fondest hope is that their sons-there are four of them-will some day run the family businesses not from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico but from the 51st state of the U.S. Statehood for Puerto Rico would more than double the corporate tax bill that the Ferrés pay under the Commonwealth, but they argue that it would attract many new industries and set off a new Puerto Rican boom by removing any danger that the island may some day be caught up in Caribbean turmoil. Says Luis Ferré: "If you can sell...