Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rome and Salzburg have become two of the most popular tourist attractions in Europe, according to booking figures. Switzerland and Italy remain important stops on most itineraries, while Spain and the Scandinavian countries, now readily accessible by air, are also attracting more tourists...
Dear Wine. In Chile, by contrast, dollar-earners have recently suffered a setback. Freed to find its own rate (TIME, April 23), the peso is hovering around 480 to the dollar; the free market has wiped out an earlier, limited trading in scarce "tourist dollars" at more than 600. The peso's comeback, plus last year's inflation (now checked), has pushed the price of a bottle of gran vino, for example, from 25? to $1 for dollar earners. Brazil's cruzeiro has been slipping steadily on the limited free market, but local price inflation has kept...
Despite currency shifts, South America is still not the tourist bargain that it seemingly should be; too many of the hotels, guides, shops and agencies have learned to think and sometimes even charge in dollars. And imported goods that are bought with dollars, such as Scotch whisky and U.S. cigarettes, are likely to run high. But for the dug-in, dollar-earning resident or the expert traveler who can track the real bargains down, good living can come cheerfully cheap...
Stewart, as a puppy-friendly tourist, is soon pals with a jolly Frenchman (Daniel Gelin) and a pair of tweedy Britons (Bernard Mills and Brenda de Banzie). Doris is more suspicious: she thinks the Frenchman asks too many questions and that the Britons are just a little shifty-eyed. And what about the mysterious stranger with the death's-head face? Did he really knock at their hotel-room door by mistake? Even Jimmy realizes that something is up when Gelin, disguised as an Arab, comes staggering into the marketplace with a knife stuck in his back, and gasps...
TRANSATLANTIC RATE WAR is stirring up between Pan American and Trans World Airlines. Besides first-class and tourist flights, Pan American proposes a third cut-rate (no free meals, smaller seats, more stops) service for $458 round trip between New York and Paris v. $558 for its lowest current fare...