Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...King Claudius indeed looks sleazy, but in a pedestrian way, less like some evil know who kills his brother than some gauche Miami tourist who wears a lavender polyester suit to a polo match with the Queens. Christopher Keyser makes Claudius look so banally evil for so long that his final confession of guilt rings hollow...
...report this week's cover story on the U.S. tourist migration, TIME correspondents around the world spoke with government officials, exchange dealers, bankers, travel agents, hoteliers and shopkeepers. In Europe, center of the friendly invasion, the magazine's reporters buttonholed American travelers to learn about the latest buys. They, along with Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, an enthusiastic vacationer who wrote the story, also drew on their own experiences coping with a dollar that used to be weak and is now strong...
...report this week's cover story on the U.S. tourist migration, TIME correspondents around the world spoke with government officials, exchange dealers, bankers, travel agents, hoteliers and shopkeepers. In Europe, center of the friendly invasion, the magazine's reporters buttonholed American travelers to learn about the latest buys. They, along with Senior Writer Otto Friedrich, an enthusiastic vacationer who wrote the story, also drew on their own experiences coping with a dollar that used to be weak and is now strong...
Though the tourist flood will not crest until this summer, TWA agents in New York say their bookings for Super Saver European tours in the first quarter are three times as high as last year's rate. Atlanta's Osborne Travel Agency reports sales running 100% ahead of 1984 for the firm's $4,000 tours and 200% ahead for cheaper excursions. Says the agency's president, Phil Osborne: "Beginning as early as mid-April, people are going to find Europe virtually sold out." By now, the best hotels in Paris and London are all but booked solid...
...also about $70 three or four years ago, when the dollar was worth 5 francs instead of nearly 10. At $131, the cheapest room at the Plaza-Athenee is a soupcon higher than it was five years ago, although the rate for more expensive rooms is lower. The tourist traffic, though, is not strictly rational. To a passionate bargain hunter, squandering money is part of the fun. One Californian, Joanne Pearson, flew to France just to accompany her son home. Says she, almost straight-faced: "He needed someone to carry an extra...