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...more than 1,000,000 visitors went to Puerto Rico, spent about $230 million and created employment for more than 10,000 workers. Since then, if only because of inflation, income from tourism 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...
...many other parts of the Caribbean, 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...
Much to the surprise of B.A.S.F. and local boosters, a strong and unlikely coalition of conservationists, retired businessmen and black fishermen fought the plan. Despite promised safeguards, they argued, the scheme would probably pollute Port Royal Sound, thus destroying the existing tourism and shell-fishing industries (TIME, Jan. 26, 1970). Last month the giant company completely abandoned its plans...
...Tourism in beautiful New England could only be hampered by an interlocking network of interstate highways. To enhance it, they need only advertise more "crummy, small highways...
...Tourism Campaign. Many of Sadat's ventures depend on an Egypt at peace-a hopeful portent for the negotiations with Israel. Aristotle Onassis flew into Cairo last week to check the possibilities of pumping oil through a proposed $250 million pipeline from the Gulf of Suez to Alexandria. Since the line would cross stretches of sand now dotted by Soviet missiles, Onassis said that he would return in six weeks, when the Jarring talks should be in better focus. The Suez Canal Co. has ordered a $2,400,000 Dutch dredger that could deepen the canal...