Word: rome
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...upsurge is all the more remarkable in light of the 20% decline in the value of the U.S. dollar against an average of European currencies since early 1986. That has made almost everything more expensive for an American in Europe. In Rome, for example, a double room for three nights at the King Hotel near the Spanish Steps that cost $246 last year now goes for $333. A taxi ride from a hotel on London's Hyde Park to the West End theater district, which cost about $4.50 two years ago, now runs closer to $5.75. During the same period...
Whether they fly coach or first class, Yanks are landing in all corners of Europe. In Italy, where tourism accounts for 7% of the gross national product, the splashing Fountain of Trevi in Rome is once more filling up with the coins tossed by sentimental U.S. tourists. The Swiss state railways report that Americans planning vacations in Switzerland bought twice as many rail passes in May as they did a year earlier. The airline SAS reports that tickets from the U.S. to Scandinavia are "basically sold...
Perhaps nowhere is the resurgence of tourism more dramatic than in Greece, where the number of vacationing Americans plunged by some 70% last year, after the 1985 hijacking of a TWA passenger jet en route from Athens to Rome. The incident was followed by a State Department travel warning regarding security problems at the airport there. Now flights to Athens through mid-July are heavily booked on TWA and sold out on Olympic Airways, the Greek flag carrier. Epirotiki, the largest operator of island-hopping cruise ships in Greece, is predicting a tripling of its business...
Some tourism officials fear that Europe is popular now only because, as one Greek travel agent put it, "nothing has happened this year." So a brief wave of anxiety was provoked by terrorist incidents in Rome two weeks ago, when rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...
...holy man he was utterly unpredictable," said Rome. "If he were here, he would do something unexpected. He was that spontaneous...