Word: tourisme
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...Florida legislature enacted a primary bill, and much of the debate centered on a chamber of commerce theme. The contrast, Florida pols contended, between candidates sloshing through the snow in New Hampshire and shirtsleeve campaigning in Florida would be certain to help the sunshine state's tourism. Florida sought to add insult to injury by scheduling its vote for the same day as New Hampshire...
...from Chicago to Jamaica, $286; Chicago to Hawaii, $346. Asks one Eastern Air Lines vice president: "How can we sell a kid on going to Miami when he can go to London for just a few bucks more?" AN EVEN BIGGER DRAIN ON THE U.S. "BALANCE OF TOURISM." Since 1960, Americans have spent $19 billion more abroad than foreign visitors have spent in the U.S., and this year's deficit is expected to top $2.5 billion. By contrast, Italy's tourism surplus usually helps put its overall balance of payments in the black. Tourism...
...Cracow, Poland: "There's always something to worry about-the black market, the secret police, talking too freely. I'd love to see my parents' faces when they got my postcard and realize I'm here." But a taste of Eastern Europe's goulash tourism is often prohibitively expensive, and the Soviets have been known to stretch the charge of "disseminating anti-Soviet propaganda" to cover even travel guides...
...donnish political leader of his country since 1956, urged a big turnout for his People's National Movement. Most opposition leaders and their supporters, like Poet Loutoo, advocated an election boycott. As is true in much of the Caribbean, Trinidad has severe economic problems; unemployment is rising, tourism is in trouble, and many islanders are disgruntled that they have not reaped the benefits of nationhood or industrial development. The boycott was a protest against the government's refusal to adopt certain electoral reforms. It enabled the Prime Minister's party to win all 36 seats...
Most of the blame for the tourism decline belongs to the hotelmen, who during the boom days boosted prices exorbitantly and genially ignored visitors' outraged complaints. Hotel employees did little to help, treating tourists indifferently and often with undisguised ill humor. The hotel workers had little to grumble about; their hourly wages and benefits soared an estimated 143% between 1959 and 1970. During the same period, consumer prices rose...